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Now that St. Patrick's Day, with its glorious Colcannon and green beer (but not that green beer), firmly in our rear view, it's time to get ready for the next holiday: Easter, and it's coming right up. Whether your tradition is to hunt for eggs or just eat candy, we've all dyed Easter eggs at one time or another. And if soaking your eggs in silicon dioxide, zinc stearate, and red dye #2 doesn't sound very appetizing, don't fret; this year, dye your eggs the natural way.
Kelly got us started earlier today with some ingredients, and a quick intro. The good folks at Curbly have put together a fun, easy recipe to dye your eggs with stuff you can get with a stroll down the produce aisle at your local grocery store. If you aren't raising your chickens, you'll want to start with some (local, cage-free, vegetarian-fed) eggs and take it from there.Following the instructions of the video below-which mixes roughly equal parts water and coloring agents, with the spices, coffee, and tea as the exceptions-brew up some tasty colors with tasty foods (and no zinc stearate to be found); Curbly recommends using some alum powder, which you can find in the spice or bulk aisle at the grocery store, to help fix the colors. Like Kelly mentioned earlier, vegetable or olive oil can help create the fun marbled effect, and you can use electrical tape for some zebra stripes or (carefully!) dripped petroleum-free candle-wax to create different relief effects. Happy dyeing!
[Via: ::Craft]
Difficulty level: Easy
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