Last week, in celebration of Easter, the Grasshopper and I dyed eggs using food-based ingredients. Here’s a quick link in case you missed that post. It was so much fun and a few of the colors were so surprising that I decided to make a game of it and let you guess which ingredients produced which colors.
Here’s that list of dye ingredients again:
Spinach
Beets
Turmeric
Purple Cabbage
Yellow Onion Skins
Blueberries
Paprika & Chili Powder
And here’s that picture with the numbered eggs:
Which egg is which?
I had a few people guess in the comments and several guess in real-life and via email. So here are the answers!
# 1 – Onion skins. I love how the membranes of the onions left that pretty pattern on the shell.#2 was blueberries. Look at the polka-dots left behind where the berries rested against the eggs!#3 was spinach. I think if I had processed the spinach in a blender I might have gotten a greener color. But it’s still so soft and pretty.#4 was a blend of paprika and chili powder. Mr. Grasshopper said that this one looked like marble.#6 was beets. This one actually changed pretty significantly as it dried. It turned into a beautiful green and purple marbled effect which you can almost see in this picture.#6 was turmeric. I loved how speckled this turned out!#7 was purple cabbage. This one was such a pretty surprise! Who knew that the purple cabbage would turn blue!
I hope you all had a wonderful week this week! Happy Easter, happy spring!
2 thoughts on “Naturally Dyed Easter Eggs – The Answers”
Those were neat! We use natural dyes for our Christmas cookie frosting – I’ll have to give red cabbage a go! We have good red, yellow, and green colors (beet, turmeric, chlorophyll), but the blueberry didn’t give us very good color last year – cabbage it is!!
That is amazing Diana! But I have to ask this: Did your cookies taste like turmeric? I had a few eggs that cracked (on purpose to see if I could get a crackle effect. Didn’t work), and they all tasted very strongly of the dye. It was pretty unpleasant in all cases. How did you deal with that?
Those were neat! We use natural dyes for our Christmas cookie frosting – I’ll have to give red cabbage a go! We have good red, yellow, and green colors (beet, turmeric, chlorophyll), but the blueberry didn’t give us very good color last year – cabbage it is!!
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That is amazing Diana! But I have to ask this: Did your cookies taste like turmeric? I had a few eggs that cracked (on purpose to see if I could get a crackle effect. Didn’t work), and they all tasted very strongly of the dye. It was pretty unpleasant in all cases. How did you deal with that?
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