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!
