Egg-Cited About Egg-Ploring Naturally Dyed Easter Eggs!

Planning on dying Easter Eggs tomorrow? If so, head to the produce department and use Mother Nature’s beautifully vibrant colors!

To dye our eggs, we used:
Red Cabbage, Turmeric, Blueberries, Beets, and Spinach
Other necessary ingredients include:
Organic Eggs, Vinegar, and EVOO

As kids our family ate colored Easter Eggs, even though they were dyed with those suspect little tablets of synthetic dyes AND even though, after being hidden by the Easter Bunny, they sat in their hiding places, unrefrigerated, for almost twelve hours! Thankfully, my brothers and sisters are all still here to reminisce about it, however, I now know better about the health issues of synthetic dyes and improper refrigeration. So, this year I wanted to experiment with edible food dyes and the Easter Bunny is going to have to hide our eggs in the EARLY morning hours instead of the night before.

We are on vacation so I didn’t have all of my kitchen equipment (i.e. my Champion Juicer) or use of my entire pantry and garden. I used what I could buy locally in the Florida Keys and fortunately we brought our Vita-Mix, because I try not to travel without it.

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Fortunately, we brought our Vita-Mix!

Teddy whipping-up the red cabbage dye concentrate.

The beet (bright pink), turmeric (bright yellow) and red cabbage (soft blue) colored eggs were a beautiful success! The spinach colored eggs did not take the on the green color at all and the blueberry colored eggs turned out grey, not very festive for Easter.

Dye Concentrates:
Spinach (top left), Red Cabbage (center), Blueberry (top right),
Turmeric (bottom right) and Beet (bottom let)

Beachside Dye Concentrates at Sunset
(Photo turned out too pretty not to share with y’all!)

Hard Boiled Eggs
Dying Solution:
2 C Dye Concentrate, 1/4 C Vinegar and 1 C Boiling Purified Water

Kids took a short break from swimming to add the eggs
to the assorted dyes.

The beet (bright pink), turmeric (bright yellow)
and red cabbage (soft blue) colored eggs were a beautiful success!
The spinach colored eggs did not take the
on the green color at all (not pictured)
and the blueberry colored eggs turned out grey,
not very festive for Easter (middle far right).

Note: The kids taste-tested one of the beet-colored eggs and did not taste the beet flavor.

You can be EGG-CITED about sharing these naturally dyed eggs with your friends and family! Let me know how your edible Easter Eggs turn out.

From our make-shift beach kitchen to yours,

Happy Easter!!!