A variety of crystal eggs formed out of juice crystals with vitamin C, decorated with Duncan Hines into sparkling jewels for Easter .
Directions
- Stuffed Crystal Eggs
- Pour 75g dry juice crystals into a sealable bowl. Drip 30 drops of water randomly over the top. Do not pour the water or the juice crystals will dissolve. I use a small turkey baster or craft bottle. Shake to coat the droplets. Smush with a spoon until fine, then cover and shake.
- Press the crystals at least ¼” thick into a mold. Press it in as hard as you can. Set it out to dry.
- The next day, carefully tap the top of the mold and squeeze it gently to release the crystal egg. Let it dry a few days more so it’s solid.
- Take a small amount of Duncan Hines Icing and dye it yellow for yolks.
- Freeze it.
- Roll it into little yolk balls. Keep as frozen as possible.
- Put a little white icing into 2 halves of a crystal egg, place the yolk in, gently put the sides together.
- Get a little square of waxed paper. Put a dollop of icing. Stand the egg on it. Leave it a day or two to harden.
- Colour your Duncan Hines Icing. Decorate the eggs with beautiful and tasty designs full of Vitamin C.
- Creche
- Fill a lengthwise egg mold. Let dry. Remove from mold. Let dry more.
- Using Duncan Hines Icing, make a figure to sit in the crèche. If it’s long, dry a day or two, turn it over, press a toothpick down its length. Let both sides dry.
- Secure your figure into the crystal egg with a little icing, then decorate the edges.
- To stand it up, place a little icing on a piece of wax paper, sit the crèche in it, and prop it up with a small hard object behind it.
- Candle
- Fill two sides of a large mold. There will be a lot of cutting involved, so the sides should be pressed thicker, popped out the next day, then dried completely.
- Use a miniature screwdriver (scrubbed and sterilized) to cut. Keep your designs small and make sure there is a hole carved in the top of the egg so the flame won’t burn it.
- Put a little tea-light in the bottom. Seal the sides together. Decorate, nice to outline the holes.
- When you light it don’t leave it for very long.