Martha Stewart's Cost-Saving Easter Egg Hack Uses This Common Household Item
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When it comes to the holidays, you know you can count on Martha Stewart to pull through with plenty of creative ideas and simple hacks to make the day even more memorable. Take dying Easter eggs, for example. The star of NBC’s cooking competition series Yes, Chef! has shared a super simple trick for creating the most gorgeous marble patterns with supplies that are most likely already in your home.
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Martha Stewart uses shaving cream to dye Easter eggs
Leave it to Martha Stewart to come up with an even easier and more cost-efficient Easter egg hack that leaves the shells with a beautiful, marbleized look.
Instead of dunking hard-boiled eggs into a traditional mixture of vinegar, water, and food coloring, Stewart suggests using shaving cream. Yes, shaving cream. “Skip the vinegar and dye your Easter eggs in softer, easier-to-clean shaving cream,” she writes on her website.
During a 2018 appearance on TODAY, Stewart demonstrated exactly how to use shaving cream to dye your Easter eggs. “Now this is the fun one — shaving cream,” she told Carson Daly, Savannah Guthrie, and Hoda Kotb. “You put a pile of shaving cream on a paper plate — you can use any kind of plate because it’s all washable — and vegetable food coloring.”
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Next, you’ll “squeeze a little bit” of food coloring on top of your pile of shaving cream. On her website, Stewart recommends mixing two colors of food dye into the shaving cream for a more vibrant “two-tone” result. Once you’ve added your colors, Stewart explained on TODAY that you’ll then just “swirl” it all around with a wooden skewer or fork.
Then you’ll place your egg on top and “just roll” it around in the colorful shaving cream mixture with a pair of tongs. Let the eggs sit in the shaving cream for at least 15 to 20 minutes because “the longer they are submerged in the cream, the brighter your dyed eggs will be,” Stewart explains on her website. Finally, you’ll just rinse off the shaving cream in a bowl of water or with a wet paper towel.
You can find a step-by-step guide here or watch a tutorial here.
Martha Stewart’s Easter traditions always include a big velveteen rabbit
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In 2024, Stewart revealed that her decorative velveteen rabbit, which appears to stand over a foot tall, makes an appearance “every year” at her Easter lunch, typically hosted at her farm in Bedford, New York. Her celebrations also include “a buffet of vibrant seasonal dishes, a houseful of whimsical and elegant decorations, and hundreds of eggs hidden outdoors for children to find,” Stewart shared on Instagram.
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In a 2023 blog post, Stewart shared several photos from her Easter lunch, which she celebrated with her daughter Alexis and grandchildren, Jude and Truman. “I decorated my home with cheerful bunnies, chicks, and eggs of all colors and sizes,” she wrote.
From classic decor to making colorful eggs with a can of shaving cream that’s probably already in your bathroom, Stewart’s Easter traditions are somehow both elegant and easy to replicate yourself.
