Easter Eggs dyed raw

Oh yes, you can dye all your eggs without hard boiling them first:

I've been dying raw Easter Eggs for 10+ years and it really just makes more sense to me - I mean how many hard boiled eggs can you eat in 2 days before they start tasting funny? I remember only getting like 4 eggs to dye because there were 5 kids. If you dye them raw you can dye all the ones you usually buy at a time. No, I've never hidden these eggs - that's what plastic eggs are for =) And the best part is opening your fridge and seeing all the happy colors for weeks because they just keep longer than the hard boiled ones ;) I've used vinegar coloring tablets and they don't make the eggs taste funny nor do they ever get colored on the insides.

Yup, sometimes you lose one or two because you drop them and they crack, but lower the eggs with a spoon and it should work beautifully for little helpers.

General Conference afternoon session on Saturday:
Better to do it at home than at the church building for Priesthood session I suppose ;)

Strawberry Shortcake Recipe

Heat oven to 350 degrees

Crust:

1 box cake mix (white or yellow)

1 cube butter, melted

1 egg

Mix and press into bottom of lightly greased 9x13 pan on bottom and sides

Filling:

8 oz cream cheese

2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla

1 cube butter, melted

2 cups powdered sugar

Mix cream cheese until fluffy, add eggs and vanilla, then butter and last powdered sugar - beat until smooth. Pour into crust.

Bake 45-50 minutes

Add Sliced Strawberries:

Whip Cream:

Add some fat free half & half and devour ;)

Ummmm, yummy!

Happy 16th Birthday Keaton

Both Brady & Keaton are 16 until Brady's birthday April 19!

Keaton doesn't want to go to golf today since it's his birthday. And for YM tonight, they were going to do a service project and it got postponed, so they are meeting at the church to play games, but Keaton didn't want to go to YM's at the church. But if they would have done the service project tonight he would have gone! What a great kid =) But I made a huge oreo ice cream cake for the YM, so I asked him if he'd go so as to not waste it! So he agreed, although he did say he would eat a slice a day and assured me it would not get freezer burn - yeah right, I made this cake in a jelly roll pan and it's huge!

Unwrap 22 ice cream sandwiches and place in pan lined with aluminum foil:

Spoon out 1.5 quarts of oreo ice cream softened over tops of ice cream sandwiches:

Spread it around evenly & put in freezer:

Make Ganache - 1 cup heavy cream, 2 cups chocolate chips and 4 tbsp butter - melt, whip and cool:

Then spread ganache over ice cream layer:
Make whipping cream (or buy some): 2 cups heavy cream, 1 tsp vanilla & 1/2 cup powdered sugar:

Whip together until fluffy:

Spread evenly over ganache:

Take 20 oreos and put them in a zip lock bag:

Crush by rolling a glass over the top (uhhh, yeah a rolling pin would be great!):

Sprinkle the oreos over the top of the whipped cream and place in freezer for 4 hours or more: