Natural dyes for Easter eggs

Use foods like turmeric, cranberry and raspberry juice, instant coffee, carrot tops and yellow onion skins, beets, dill seed, and red cabbage leaves to produce pink, green, brown, red, beige, yellow, and blue Easter egg dyes natural

Are those colors rich or what? Often times when I see natural dyes, they’re dull or limited to only beiges and browns. That blue is gorgeous and the red from the carrot tops is deeper than the normal earthy tones.

Wanna replicate it? RadMegan has a TON of photos, tutorials, tips, and ways to make these your own. The image above is cool and gives a nice description, but the up-close ones on her site will show you just how detailed and unique the texture of the eggs are, too. Pretty cool. :)

Via my sister.

Stuffed crust pizza – Happy birthday peppers

birthdays, cheese, pepperoni, peppers, pizza | March 19, 2012 | By

Pepperoni pizza with sliced peppers spelling out "happy birthday"

Yay for happy birthday pizzas!

The finished product almost actually looks like the uncooked version:

Uncooked pepperoni pizza with happy birthday red pepper slices

The only real difference is that the B sort of sunk and had some issues being seen. Oops.

Birthday pizza 

Yum. 

Stuffed crust pizzaPepperoni on top of our underneath cheese 
Happy pizzaBirthday pizza recipe 

And in case you’re the kind of loves stuffed crust pizza, but never make it yourself. It’s super easy. Just spread your dough a little thinner so you have a nice thick crust available. Fold it over sliced mozzarella or pieces of string cheese even. To keep it from popping apart too much, try to tuck it under the cheese as much as possible instead of simply sticking it to the dough in front.

How to make stuff crust pizza at home - Mozzarella or string cheese crust

Chocolate chip cookie dough cake

Chocolate chip cookie dough cake from Pinterest

I loved the idea of the chocolate chip cookie dough cake we all keep seeing on Pinterest from the Domestic Rebel. My sister beat me to making it, though, and was nice enough to share the pictures.

She didn’t do a round cake with chocolate chip cookies on the outside, but rather a large rectangle cake with lots of chocolate chips right in the icing. Yum.

Chocolate chip cookie icing

Large cake with chocolate chip cookie dough icing

Chocolate chip frostingCooking frosting

It even became the next day’s lunch dessert quite nicely:

Sandwich and cake bento box