And eating them is thought to bring a little more prosperity to the new year.
Marble colored hard boiled eggs.
Marble hard boiled eggs are becoming increasingly popular with each passing year and we have the step by step guide to help you achieve the wonderful look of these almost too good to eat treats.
To make chinese tea eggs we start with lightly hard boiled eggs.
You just dip your eggs in food colouring and water to dye them and then dip them again in an oil and coloured water solution to marble them.
All you need are eggs olive oil vinegar and food colouring.
This is the one of the coolest ways to dye easter eggs.
Choose the number of eggs you want to decorate and hard boil.
Pour about 10 to 20 drops of each shade of nail polish into water.
The process is really easy.
Prepare the first round of dipping colors by stirring 1 teaspoon vinegar and 5 to 10 drops of food coloring into each cup of water.
Here s the technique in action.
Fill a small plastic container with 1 cup of cold water.
Oven baked hard boiled eggs are just eggs heated up in a hot dry oven.
Turning hard boiled eggs into chinese marbled eggs.
How to make marble easter eggs.
How to make hard boiled eggs that look like marble.
Use a muffin tin to keep the eggs from rolling about in the oven.
Swirl the colors with a toothpick.
12 hard boiled eggs in shell small plastic container bowl cold water nail polish various pastel colors toothpick wire egg dipper or wire whisk wax paper directions.
1 container for each color.