Spring has sprung (and even played summertime for a few days in Missouri).

Celebrating Ostara is always such a joy, but this year I wanted to test out an old lady craft that I’ve been wanting to do for a few years now: Panoramic sugar eggs.

Perfect for the springtime/Easter season, I remember my grandma had one of these fancy eggs by her candy dish each year as Easter dawned. She bought hers, but I love food art, and any art really, and it seemed like the perfect craft to do with the kids–much like making gingerbread houses during the Yuletide season.

So I looked up some steps:https://www.favfamilyrecipes.com/panoramic-easter-eggs/

I got a few molds, and we tested out this awesome practice. I was nervous the whole time, but they came out so well, and it was a lot of fun!!!

It was easier than I imagined, and I tweaked it to fit our style. We mixed up the sugar (I do the raw cane sugar, which is not as white but worked just fine), pressed it into the molds, and flipped them onto cake boards.

I baked them at 200 for 15 minutes before pulling them out to scoop the insides and cut off the ends with a bread knife. This has to be done gently, so I was holding my breath and squeaking the entitre time. I should have cut farther back and had the kids scoop a little more out for our scenes to make for a wider opening to look through, but our sugar eggs were sturdy, and that was all I really worried about as a first-timer.

Then I put them back into the oven at 200 for 15 minutes to harden up the inside and edges of the eggs.

Next, we decorated the insides with royal icing (the richest and prettiest icing of all–I mixed recipes to get it just right and avoid complicated ingredients like meringue powder haha), and candies. Jelly beans are perfect for this.

I refrigerated the bottom-decorated halves to stiffen up the icing.

Finally, we iced the edges and put on the top and decorated the outside. I put them in the fridge for about 30 minutes to harden everything up before we set them out as decorations.

Panoramic sugar eggs are so beautiful. Plus, it’s fun to let the kids eat some candy and icing while decorating. This is going to be an annual tradition in my house from now on, just like making Halloween costumes and building gingerbread houses.