Leggs eggs work great for ex-large size eggs to stick in gift baskets or a deviled egg storage container works great for little wee size eggs!
2 cups sugar
3 ½ teaspoons water
Food coloring (we used the paste)
Egg molds
In a large bowl add 2 cups sugar and 3 ½ teaspoons of water. Start with a little water and continue adding just a little bit at a time. You just want all the sugar to be wet enough to stick together.
The wetter your sugar the longer it will take to set up and dry and if it's too wet it won't hold the shape of the mold very well.
After you mix the water and sugar, press the sugar into your egg molds about 1/4-1/2 inch thick. You want it thick, but if you get it too thick, you won't have much room inside your egg.
Around the top edge of your sugar eggs, make a flat edge so that the two egg halves will sit flat together. After that, take a spoon and take a small scoop out of the front of your egg, on the top and bottom. This will leave a hole you can peek inside your egg. Set aside to dry overnight. They'll get really hard and come out of the mold pretty easily.
Icing for the decorations and to hold it together.
This recipe has egg whites so make small children don't try to eat this, it will upset heir little tummys!
3 egg whites, room temperature
4 Cups powdered sugar
½ teaspoon cream of tartar
food coloring
After your eggs harden mix icing and color it with food coloring.
This icing will dry rock hard, so be sure to keep it covered tight when not using it. Spread icing in bottom of your egg. Use stickers, little wooden bunnies, little wooden eggs or small Easter decorations of your choice. Small pictures from magizines work well too! Place a little Easter grass into the icing as well, for a decorator touch. Add your small Easter decorations into the icing and then put two halves together, one on top of the other
Now simply put your colored frosting into a decorator tube and go around the seam of the egg, the peep hole in the front and you may also add some to the top of the egg.
