Tie-Dye Easter Egg Cupcakes

This cold weather just won't quit! It's been awhile since I've posted because things have been very busy at work and the weather is keeping us from enjoying Spring. But not today! We stayed warm and cozy in the house and decided to finally use the Duff cake mix that was included in our Disney Side kit. Instead of making traditional cupcakes, we chose to make Easter egg cupcakes in honor of the upcoming holiday.

We only had nine eggs in the fridge, so we used those to experiment with the eggshell technique and made normal cupcakes with the remaining batter. I started by poking a tiny hole in the end of a raw egg. I used a very sharp tool made for poking tiny holes in pumpkins:

Small hole

 I then peeled and carefully pried away the shell to make a hold big enough for a pipette tip to fit in.

It looks like a pretty big hole, but it's only slightly larger than a dime.

 I then let all the goo run out of the egg and into a bowl. Three of the eggs I saved for the cake, while the other ones are in separate bowl that was put in the fridge for later.

Goooooey goo

The eggs then went for a nice long salt-water bath, about 30 minutes. Then they were carefully rinsed off and set to dry on a paper towel (hole facing down).

 

While they were drying, I followed the directions on the Duff box and enlisted the help of my husband and boys to mix up the colors.

Love the Duff!

 

I made little foil nests inside of my cupcake tin to hold the eggs in place.

 

Next I carefully used a piping bag to squeeze a little bit of each color, layer by layer, into the egg, until the eggs were a little over half full. I regret not taking a picture of this step!

Ready to go in the oven.

Finally I popped them in a pre-heated oven @350 degrees for 20 minutes and used the same technique to make some cupcakes with the leftover batter.

Pre-oven

Post-oven

 Oh no! Since this was my first time doing this, I must have overfilled the eggs and the mix overflowed! No biggie though, I just scraped off the excess and they were good to go.

The cupcakes came out well too!

Inside of the cupcake

Looks like a normal egg on the outside.....

But peel away the shell.....

And voila! Cupcake!

Now that I know it works, I can't wait to experiment with other variations. You can dye the eggshells to look just like Easter eggs, you can use white cake mix and then inject lemon curd to represent yolks, use pastel colored cake mix, or whatever you want! I think I'm going to attempt the white mix with lemon curd for Easter dinner.