Easter Decorating Together
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Gather your children and their friends together for an afternoon of Easter egg and cookie decorating. Send them all home with a basket filled with their decorated eggs, cookies and lots of NESTLÉ Easter candy!
Easter Eggs
WHAT YOU NEED
- Dispensers of NESTLÉ Mini Chewy SWEETARTS and SPREE Eggs
- Hard boiled or hollowed eggs
- Paste-type food dye (available at cooking stores)
- Tooth picks
- 1 small bowl or cup for each color
- 1 bottle of white vinegar
- Metal spoons or tongs
- 1-2 empty paper towel rolls
- Narrow decorative ribbon
- Quick Dry "Tacky" Glue® or low heat craft glue gun
HOW TO DO IT
- Set out a cup or bowl for each color.
- Cut an empty paper towel roll into sections; you'll set the finished eggs on them to dry.
- Scoop out a portion of paste-type food coloring with a toothpick and stir it into the cup or bowl with 1 cup of very hot water until it's dissolved.
- Add 1/4 cup white vinegar.
- Repeat this process for each desired color.
- Dip white hard-boiled eggs into the bowls using a metal spoon or tongs.
- Place the dyed eggs on the egg holders to dry.
- Decorate the eggs with colorful ribbon and NESTLÉ Easter candy.
Easter Cookies
WHAT YOU NEED
- Dispensers of NESTLÉ Mini Chewy SWEETARTS and SPREE Eggs
- 1 bag of SWEETARTS Chicks, Ducks and Bunnies
- 1 bag of SWEETARTS Jelly Beans
- Easter shaped sugar cookies (See recipe below)
- Royal Icing (See recipe below)
- Paste-type food dye (available at cooking stores)
- Pastry bags with writing tips. One bag for each color of icing (available at cooking stores)
HOW TO DO IT
- Bake sugar cookies to decorate. Use your own recipe or NESTLÉ TOLL HOUSE Refrigerated Sugar Cookie Dough, following package directions.
- After rolling out the dough, cut into Easter shapes using cookie cutters or a paring knife to form the shapes.
- Frost each cookie using colored Royal Icing that has been slightly diluted for easy spreading. Let the icing dry completely.
- Set the iced cookies out for decoration.
- Offer small bowls of NESTLÉ Easter candy and pastry bags filled with different colored Royal Icing.
- The icing can be used to decorate the cookies and as "glue" to adhere the candies to the cookies.
- Provide an area where the finished cookies can dry.
- After all of the eggs and cookies have been decorated, give each child a little Easter basket.
- Let them fill their baskets with their decorated eggs and cookies and, make sure they tuck in just a little more NESTLÉ Easter candy like NESTLÉ NestEggs.
Royal Icing
Ingredients:
- 3 egg whites
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
Directions:
- BEAT egg whites and cream of tartar with electric mixer until foamy
- GRADUALLY beat in sugar and continue beating until stiff peaks form.
- DIVIDE the icing into thirds.
- DYE one third pink using pink food dye.
TIPS
- Dying eggs and decorating cookies is a fun but messy job! Suggest that each "decorator" bring an old shirt or apron to wear while creating their eggs and cookies.