Saturday, March 16, 2013

EASTER EGGS FROM A TUNA CAN?


Dying Easter eggs was always a fun family project - even for grown up kids. But one year I decided it might be fun to make and decorate egg-shaped cookies instead. They'd be more fun to eat for one thing. Again it was a family affair and they WERE fun to do! In the 60s and 70s and even into the 80s, great cookie cutters were not easy to find. And because I couldn't find an egg-shaped cutter I cut both ends off a tuna can and squashed it. Below is my first egg cutter. 




Now I have six or seven "real" egg-shaped cookie cutters in all sizes but this size is still my favorite.

 






These and the cookie at the top of this post are all Nina's from 2008. She used the cookie as a canvas to "paint"
flowers on some and just decorated others. The cookies are ginger of course. It's okay to make ginger cookies in the spring!  

- posted by Momsu


2 comments:

  1. I remember those old friends!

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  2. Oh my goodness, that's brilliant! I need to have tuna for lunch!

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