Use natural ingredients such as onion skins, beets, turmeric, coffee and more in your slow cooker to make beautiful Crock-Pot Natural Dyed Easter Eggs! This is a fun Easter project to do with the kids and teach them how natural products can be used as a dye to color Easter eggs!
Crock-Pot Natural Dyed Easter Eggs
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| Servings | 12eggs |
| Prep Time | 5minutes |
| Cook Time | 120minutes |
Ingredients
- 6 - 12 whole Eggs only large crocks will fit 12
- Ground Turmeric turmeric
- Cinnamon Sticks
- Ground Coffee
- Green Tea
- 3 - 6 whole Raw Beets
- 12 ounces Frozen Blueberries or blackberries
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Instructions
- You will place 6-12 eggs in your crock making sure they are not touching (if your using the silicone cupcake liners this will make it easier).
- You need to pour enough water to fully cover them (if you are not using fresh eggs, an older egg has a tendency to float to the top) but not more water than that.
- Do not stack the eggs.
- Cover and turn on high for 2 to 2 1/2 hours.
- Use a timer and do not go over the 2 1/2 hour limit if you plan on eating the eggs.
- Scoop the eggs out carefully, place them in a bowl with ice water, and you may need to add more ice.
- The faster you cool them down the better they will look inside and if you are wanting to peel them and eat them, they will peel easier as well.
- Take out and dry once cooled.
- You are now done if you are only going to eat them.
- If you are going to decorate them, then the fun begins!
- I boiled a pan of water on the stove and would scoop out several big cup fulls to fill up about 2/3rds the red solo cups.
- Place the tea (2-4 tea bags per cup), ground coffee, or several scoops of turmeric with a cinnamon stick.
- Tea gives a faint green color, ground coffee is brown, turmeric will be orange.
- Use the rubber/plastic bands, decorate with tape (that you will pull off later), tie long strips of fabric around them and so on.
- You can even just hand the kids white crayons and let them put designs on the egg.
- Once ready, place the eggs into the steaming water and let them sit for several hours.
- When I did the beets, I boiled 6 raw beets, with stems cut, cut in half with a crock half full of water, lid placed (so put it on high) for about 4 hours.
- I then scooped the red beet juice/water into the red solo cups and added the egg.
- I added a few frozen blackberries to get the color a bit darker.
- I did the same with blueberries and Blackberries, boiling them in a half filled crock for 4 hours and then scooped the juice/water out and place in the red solo cup with the eggs, adding a couple of blackberries with to add a bit more red.
- When they are done, pull them out and let them dry.
- You can rub with some vegetable oil if you want them to shine.
- So as to not waste we fed the chickens the berries and beats and placed the coffee and tea onto the compost pile.
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I have text two emails and havent heard back. for some reason i am not getting any emails with new recipes. i really miss them because i look forward to them. i have a busy lifestyle and i use my crockpot regularly. please let me k ow if there is a problem.
Hi Bette, I have been traveling and then got home and am sick so I have fallen behind on my emails. I will check for yours tonight and get back with you! I am so sorry!