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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Hippie Easter Eggs
For Easter, my sister found this recipe thingy on how to dye Easter eggs "naturally."
We humored her, and pretty much assumed it would be a disaster, but it actually turned out pretty well (although it was messy).
First, you have to pick what colors you want your eggs to end up, and then assemble the ingredients for each color. Our egg colors were:
Orange: Tomato sauce
Black: blueberries
Pink: Beets
Green: spinach leaves
You mix each ingredient separately with boiling water. Then you can draw on your eggs with crayons. If you use a white crayon, technically, that part of the egg will remain white, and the rest will be dyed whatever color you choose.
These are the eggs all wrapped up in spinach leaves for the green. You submerge them in boiling water with the spinach and soak em. Also, there's my Easter Bunny egg waiting for the pink to be ready.
Here's the tomato sauce for the orange eggs. I made mine like a basketball (March Madness on the brain).
Our eggs turned out really neat!
I think my Easter Bunny egg wins the prize, if I may say so myself. The blueberry one turned out really cool too.
It was a fun project, and the hard boiled eggs were totally edible afterwards. It makes for a strange rainbow egg salad.
Hippie Easter Eggs
For Easter, my sister found this recipe thingy on how to dye Easter eggs "naturally."
We humored her, and pretty much assumed it would be a disaster, but it actually turned out pretty well (although it was messy).
First, you have to pick what colors you want your eggs to end up, and then assemble the ingredients for each color. Our egg colors were:
Orange: Tomato sauce
Black: blueberries
Pink: Beets
Green: spinach leaves
You mix each ingredient separately with boiling water. Then you can draw on your eggs with crayons. If you use a white crayon, technically, that part of the egg will remain white, and the rest will be dyed whatever color you choose.
These are the eggs all wrapped up in spinach leaves for the green. You submerge them in boiling water with the spinach and soak em. Also, there's my Easter Bunny egg waiting for the pink to be ready.
Here's the tomato sauce for the orange eggs. I made mine like a basketball (March Madness on the brain).
Our eggs turned out really neat!
I think my Easter Bunny egg wins the prize, if I may say so myself. The blueberry one turned out really cool too.
It was a fun project, and the hard boiled eggs were totally edible afterwards. It makes for a strange rainbow egg salad.
4 Comments
Spike Tuesday, March 25, 2008
LGrant Tuesday, March 25, 2008
girlcarew Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Betsy Wednesday, March 26, 2008
1) Those are neat! I bet that beats would give you a nice deep red.
Spike Tuesday, March 25, 20082) Love the eggs and kudos for going "au natural" (nope--didn't mean naked, just natural dyes!) I've always wanted to try it but never took the time or effort.
LGrant Tuesday, March 25, 20083) Those are cool. I read about it too, but I read that you had to use a ton of veggies to get good strong color. It sounded like a lot of money for some mediocre eggs. But yours turned out well. We just might try this next year.
girlcarew Tuesday, March 25, 20084) The beets actually produced the pinkish color. The green didn't make much of a dent (I think my sister cheated and added food coloring to the one green egg on the bottom row.)
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