Striped Jello Easter Eggs

My daughter decided she wanted to dye eggs for Easter last year. This is not something we have done very often because I was always in charge of the egg hunt at church. By the time it was over, I was usually just done with Easter. Since we didn’t have very many little kids at church, we decided not to have one last year.

I knew I had everything we needed to dye eggs in my holiday boxes at the storage building. She was with me when I went to get them and found the Jello egg molds, I have 2, one plain and one with designs imprinted inside. She decided that she wanted to make the Jello Eggs too.

We ended up having a soccer tournament on Easter weekend for my son’s team. It started at the same time she needed to be picked up from school on Friday.  Her aunt picked Shaylee up for us, and let her spend the night.  They dyed eggs that night, so the next day in between soccer games, she decided that she wanted to make the Jello eggs since she had already dyed eggs.

We looked up a few recipes and most called for layers of Jello mixed with something like yogurt in between layers of Jello. She didn’t want to do that, she just wanted Jello eggs, so that is what we made.

We started by rubbing some vegetable oil inside the egg molds and then closing them completely so the Jello couldn’t leak out. We placed these on a small baking pan to contain the mess. She picked 4 colors, orange, purple, blue and red. She wanted them layered in that order.

We started with orange and mixed it up like Jello Jigglers – one large 6 oz. box mixed with 1 1/2 cup hot water. Once it was all dissolved, we used medicine droppers to fill the molds through the hole in the top.  I have got rid of most of these since we don’t use them anymore, but we found 2 that were new and unused.  The syringe type worked best, the suction one worked but made a little more of a mess and took longer since it didn’t hold as much.

We tried to fill the eggs up 1/4 of the way. There was more Jello than would fit in the molds so we divided the rest up into some glass parfait cups. These fit on the baking pan with the molds which made it easy to move to the fridge to set. We left them in the fridge about an hour until they were set well. Then we repeated this with the grape Jello filling up to the center line and allowing to set while we went to the last soccer game.

After we got home, we added the third layer of blue cotton candy Jello. This one set much faster, I think it was because the molds, cups, and pan were chilled this time, probably about 30 minutes. We added the last layer of strawberry Jello before we went to bed and let them set overnight.

We had a sunrise service the next morning, so we were up early. She had to stay between services to practice the play, so she wanted to finish the eggs before we left for the sunrise service. The directions said to run the mold under hot water to loosen them. I had the plain mold and my daughter had the imprinted mold. Mine would not come out of the mold. I had 2 eggs break in half so Shaylee finished shaking them out of the molds.

We placed them on a plate and cut them in half like deviled eggs.  This made them go farther and showed the layers better.   I tried putting some of the spray on whipped topping to make them look like deviled eggs, but it was too soft and by the time we got to lunch it had just melted flat.  If you want some type of topping make sure it will hold its shape.

I now know why all the recipes call for the creamy layer between the Jello layers.  It was hard to see the layer change with just the Jello, the blue and purple really blended together.  I would suggest alternating light layers and dark layers if you don’t want to use the white creamy layers.  The orange showed up well, so I am assuming that yellow and green might also show up well.  The eggs were a big hit at our family lunch though and were all gone before the day was over.

This was a fun way to celebrate Easter, the last two years we made Dyed Deviled Eggs.  What fun ways do you celebrate Easter?

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