My niece (15 years old) and I have a tradition of decorating eggs for Easter. Each time we focus on a different technique while keeping with our initial color scheme of blue and white. This year we decided to decorate our blown-out eggs with ribbon.

Techniques we used in the past:

• Paper Cutout
• Simple Ukrainian
• Quilled paper

We enjoyed an Easter themed dinner to go along with our egg decorating. This dinner many look fancy but it was minimal effort for the huge payback in visual appeal.

Menu:

• Bunny Salad – lettuce, raw spinach, cucumber with egg and rabbit shaped carrots. I used the egg from this set and this 3D cutter set. Serve with your favorite dressing.
• Ribbon Pasta with Asparagus and Parmesan – Wegmans Mafaldine pasta, cooked asparagus, butter and Parmesan cheese, freshly ground pepper (I had planned to add sliced almonds but forgot to use them)
• Chocolate Nests – We used this recipe. Instead of semisweet chocolate we used dark chocolate chips, instead of the marcona almonds we used Cadbury Mini Eggs. The recipe is very simple but I was confused about the size of muffin tin. The recipe says to use a 6-cup muffin pan. My 6-cup pan is the larger size. I probably should have used 6 cups from my 12-cup pan (smaller).  So even though the recipe is supposed to make 6 nests I ended up making 4 large nests to be able to shape it into a nest using the larger muffin cups. I was concerned about being able to remove the nests from my muffin cups but I had no problem using a knife to pry out one side – it then popped right out!

It was dinner for 3 this night. You don’t need a crowd to make a special dinner.

Three nests fit perfectly on my small cake plate.

We used assorted ribbon in our color scheme and tacky glue. We tried different designs but were happiest with a simple band of ribbon around the center of the egg. My niece came up with the idea of gluing two different colored ribbon to each other and using that as a band around the center. We also tried making ribbon bows and glued them to the eggs.

My niece enjoys painting (I don’t) so she mixed up a custom color and painted some of the eggs blue. We find that painting the eggs works better than dying them.

Our hanger ribbon is 1/8 inch (3 mm ) wide. The widest ribbon we used as decoration was 5/8 inch (15 mm) wide.

For my egg tree I used branches that my Mom sprayed with white paint a few years ago.

This dinner and egg craft project was a hit! I would love to know if you try either of these and how it worked for you.

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