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DIY: Make a Sugar Egg Easter Decoration

April 15, 2011 By Jenn @ Frugal Upstate 7 Comments

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One of my latest Walmart Mom challenges was to make something “DIY” for Easter.  I decided to try something completely new–making a sugar egg! Are you familiar with these? It’s like a little Easter diorama inside of an egg made out of sugar.

Photo by Sean, who is much more talented than I!

I remember one year when I was a child my mom had one of these (store bought).  I thought it was so amazing to peer inside and see a little world!  I was determined to stretch my limits and try making one of my own!

Tutorial: Sugar Egg Diorama for Easter

Materials:

3 1/2 C Sugar
1/2 C Powdered Sugar
1 Egg White
Egg shaped mold
Food coloring
Royal Icing, Icing bags & tips, Coconut, candies etc for decorations.

Instructions:

In a large mixing bowl combine the two sugars.

Sugar & powdered sugar.

In a separate bowl whip the egg white until foamy.  Add your food coloring to the egg white.  Remember-the white sugar will reduce the vibrancy of the food color a lot-so make it darker than you think you need it.

Food coloring goes in now!

Pour the egg into the sugar and start mixing.  At first it will just clump up-you must persevere.

See that yellow? I should have added more. . .

And keep on mixing and mixing. . .

Starting to clump up now. . .

Until your mixture becomes the consistency of damp sand.

Finally!

Now for your mold.  I looked online for “egg molds” and not only did they look dumb, but they weren’t cheap.  Instead I headed out to the Easter Aisle at Walmart and found this cute egg.  It started out packed with candy and cost about $3.  The kids were more than happy to help me “empty” it 🙂

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Pack your sugar mixture TIGHTLY into your mold and level it off with a butter knife.

Notice the color? That was after I added MORE yellow food coloring. . which doesn't mix in well at this point. Sigh.

Now invert the molded sugar onto a piece of cardboard.

Flip 'er over! The cardboard is an old box cut up.

At this point you need to let the sugar dry enough to make a “shell” that you can handle without drying all the way through . .because you need to scoop the guts out!  If you have time let it air dry for an hour or two.  If, like me, you left things a bit late and are in a rush you can use a low oven to hurry the process along.

Stick them on a cookie sheet.

I put my two egg halves in a 200 oven for about 30 minutes.

Ready to go!

Take them out and un-mold them.  Now it’s time to start carefully scraping out the guts.  The center of the egg is still soft-but the flat bottom probably has dried along with the outside.  I carefully scraped and poked till I got a piece out, then I used the spoon to sort of crack off the “crust”.  Once I had that off the inside scraped out very easily.

Be careful-you don't want to crack your whole egg in half! See those yellow spots? That's from when I tried to mix in more food coloring.

When you’ve got both shells scooped out you still need some way to see into the egg.  My mold had a flat spot on one side, so that was going to be my “peeper”.  I used a steak knife and very very carefully “drilled” a hole.

Go slow. Cracking it now would really be sad.

Then I drilled another hole about a half inch away. I used the knife to saw in between the two, then carefully sawed/chipped around the edges until my opening was the size I wanted it.  Yay!

The shells are ready to go.

Now comes the fun of decorating.  First I decided I needed some “grass” so I dyed some coconut green.

Next I made up some Royal Icing (which turns hard when dry).  It just takes powdered sugar, meringue powder and a tiny bit of water.  I used the Wilton Royal Icing Recipe.

I decided I wanted a bunny in my egg. I Google “bunny silhouette”.  I found a good free for use one at a site called The Quilling Patch.  I copied it in a couple of sizes onto a piece of paper.  Then I put wax paper over it and used white royal icing to “trace” over a couple of the silhouette.

Now I thinned out a bit of the royal icing and dyed it blue.

Much, much thinner now.

Then with a regular craft paintbrush I painted the inside of the egg a nice sky blue!

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A few finishing touches-an icing cloud or two, eyes & nose for the bunny, gluing the grass in with more icing. . .

Isn't it cute!

Then I ran some icing around the edges and glued the two egg halves together.

It doesn't match up exactly, but that's ok. We are going to hide that.

To finish off the egg you run a nice icing edge along the seam and around the window looking in.  If you haven’t, oh, lets say left the entire project until the morning you are leaving on a weekend trip or anything, well then you can take your time and make it look really pretty-maybe adding little flowers and decorations all over the outside in various colors.  Or you can do like I did and just use the white and let it go

Isn't that awesome? I'm so proud of myself

The finished project!

Viola!

Now there are many other ways you can decorate one of these eggs.  You could use any color for the egg itself-like purple or pink perhaps. Of course you can really snazz up the outside of the egg with flowers, designs or curly cues 🙂

Instead of making your own royal icing decorations for the inside you could use little toys, buy some of those hard, premade “cake decorations” or even just print things out on paper to insert inside.  Your only limit is your imagination!

Have any of you ever made sugar eggs?  I’d love to hear about yours.

Disclosure: This post is part of a campaign I am participating in with the Walmart Moms. Walmart has provided me with compensation and product for this post. My participation is voluntary and opinions, as always are my own. 
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Comments

  1. Heather Solos says

    April 15, 2011 at 7:56 pm

    Now this is just cool. Very good job.

    Reply
  2. Ellen Christian says

    April 16, 2011 at 7:11 am

    Wow great job! I would be totally intimidated making something like that. Looks super!

    Reply
  3. Heather @ Not a DIY Life says

    April 16, 2011 at 11:40 am

    I think you did great!! This would take a lot more patience than I currently possess, but I love the idea. Thanks for sharing, Jenn!

    Reply
  4. Melissa says

    April 22, 2011 at 7:07 pm

    This is very cool! I remember getting sugar eggs in my Easter basket when I was a kid, but I’ve never tried to make one. Yours turned out great!

    Reply
  5. Tritri says

    April 5, 2012 at 12:23 pm

    I just finished my first attempt at these. They turned out GREAT. I like the mottled look so I colored my sugar instead of the water. A few things I did differently are:

    I used GEL food color. (americolor is my favorite)

    I did NOT use egg in my sugar mixture nor did I use powdered sugar. Just plain sugar and water. I know the kids will want to eat them so I didnt want to use eggs.

    Great job on yours. Keep playing and you will perfect it 😉

    Reply
    • Jenn @ Frugal Upstate says

      April 6, 2012 at 8:28 am

      Thanks Tritri

      Reply
  6. jessica blackwell says

    March 27, 2013 at 10:21 pm

    I am a christian so I would even make a cross for the inside I love this idea alot of possibilities

    Reply

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