Natural Egg Dyeing

I have always wanted to try dying eggs naturally so on a rainy day this weekend I gave it a shot. You will learn from my mistakes.

First things first. You will need some eggs. If you normally buy white, you should buy the brown ones, they will produce deeper shades.

Your natural ingredients. Red cabbage, cranberry sauce* and curry powder*. We will come back to what has a little asterisk by it.

In separate pots, bowl the eggs and the ingredients. Follow what you normally do to hard boil eggs and for the rest, add the ingredients to water and a few tablespoons of white vinegar. Simmer those for about 20-30 minutes. This will make your kitchen smell disgusting.

Then pour out the cabbage, leaving intense purple water and let them all get to room temperature. When they are cooled, put your eggs in their baths and put them in the fridge overnight.

All aboard the fail train....

Ok, so the red cabbage made the most beautiful blue eggs I have ever seen! But then again, the directions said that. Where we took a turn was the directions actually called for cranberries, not the sauce. Fail. And even though curry powder looks identical in color to turmeric, it doesn't work. Fail. Those eggs came out weird and speckled, so it wasn't a total loss, but I would have loved deep red and yellow to go with the blues. You can also use onion skins and chili powder. Have fun!