Help please, how do you prepare an egg for decorating?

[saadia]

I thought you were supposed to boil them but dh says they will become stinky. He thinks you have to make a hole in each end and then blow or something, but can anyone provide an exact technique?

[NutterlyUts]

hope this helps

[SquonkForgotHerEasterName]

If you blow them, they will be really delicate.

But if you hard-boil them, they will be fine.

Of course they will go off eventually, but you will only smell them if you break the shells. Anyway, by the time they've gone off, Easter will be well and truly over.

[saadia]

oh thank you so much nutterly and squonk, I'm veering towards the hard-boiled option for my slightly clumsy dss.

[onepieceoflollipop]

We hard boiled one. I will chuck it away a week or so after Easter. We had trouble sticking fabric etc to the shell, ended up using double sided tape. Had a few very tricky moments with a tube of superglue - don't try that.

[stealthsquiggle]

You can blow them and then fill them up with chocolate ganache, but only if you are CoV - or if you are me, you can blow them (goose eggs, took me flipping ages) and then run out of time and leave them in a cupboard until the next Easter, at which point you then run out of time again and find yourself thinking "maybe next year"

Hard boil them and ignore DH!

[saadia]

Yes I think you are both right, the blowing-out option and subsequent mess doesn't sound very appealing. onepiece, they won't be getting access to glue or anything exotic like that, just paints, so hopefully not too tricky. Stealth I'm impressed that they survived a year in a cupboard, they would surely have got broken in my house.

[meridian]

hard boil them... then dip into food colouring.... then they are still edible if you so wish...