How to Dye Easter Eggs with Whipped Cream
A tastier alternative to the popular Shaving Cream Easter Eggs, these Whipped Cream Easter Eggs are a more sensible and edible way to dye your eggs this year. Just four ingredients, one of them being hard boiled eggs, and you have a less messy way to dye your Easter Eggs with Whipped Cream.
My favorite holiday of the year is right around the corner and I couldn’t be more excited! Easter is on it’s way and with it comes all my favorite foods besides my beloved Honey Baked Ham.
And who can forget the vibrantly colored Easter Eggs with the messy task of dying them so the Easter Bunny can hide them the night before. After he’s had a couple glasses of wine waiting for everyone to fall asleep….and then forgetting the next day where all the eggs are hidden so when one or two are still missing you know you’re in for a smelly situation in a few weeks when those eggs decide to ripen. No? Just our house?
Well, anyway, we LOVE dying easter eggs and I’m always looking for new ways to get the task done. We’ve dyed eggs with rice and transferred patterns by dying eggs in silk ties. It’s fun to test out something new but when the shaving cream dyed eggs hit the internet I had to shun that one for sure.
I like to eat the hard boiled eggs later….making egg salad or just eating them for a snack so the idea of eating an egg that’s been dyed with shaving cream made me shutter a bit. Since the shell of an egg is porous so the ingredients of shaving cream can get into the egg itself making it inedible. What a waste!
So, I later realized whipped cream was an amazing substitute and soooooo fun to use…..AND if you accidentally lick your fingers while dying Easter Eggs in Whipped Cream you’re not going to gag because whipped cream is amazing.
How to Dye Eggs with Whipped Cream
Dying easter eggs with whipped cream is exactly the same as dying easter eggs with shaving cream except you’re swapping out the shaving cream for the whipped cream. It’s a safer alternative to using a non food item to dye your hard boiled eggs.
Here’s how you dye easter eggs with whipped cream:
- Soak your hard boiled eggs in vinegar for 5-10 minutes. The vinegar is essential in helping the colors adhere to the shell. You can skip this step but your colors will be more muted.
- Dry your eggs and set aside.
- Spread the whipped cream, whipped topping or Cool Whip evenly in the wells of a muffin tin.
- Using gel food color, drop dots of your favorite colors on top of the whipped cream.
- Swirl the colors slightly with a knife.
- Roll the eggs around in the whipped cream and let stand for 5-10 minutes.
- Wipe dry with a paper towel. Do Not Rinse under water as the dye needs more time to set.
- Enjoy!
So, soooooo easy to do and this is super fun for the kiddos to do, too!
My BEST Tips for Dying Easter Eggs
Want a mess free easter egg dying experience? Follow these easy tricks!
- Cover your workspace with a disposable plastic tablecloth to keep surfaces clean and dye free!
- Disposable plastic gloves are great for keeping little fingers stain free!
- Cook your eggs in an Instant Pot using this recipe!
- Soak your eggs in vinegar before you start to give your colors an extra boost!
How long do Hard Boiled Eggs last?
- Hard Boiled eggs will last in the refrigerator up to 7 days.
- Hard Boiled Eggs can stand at room temperature, safely, for up to 2 hours.
- I do not recommend freezing hard boiled eggs because the egg whites do not thaw well.
Can you use Brown Eggs to dye easter eggs with whipped cream?
You can definitely use brown eggs instead of white eggs to make this cool whip easter egg recipe but know that brown eggs produce earthier colors than white which, sometimes, end up even more beautiful that the tie dyed easter eggs in the pictures. Less hippie, 70’s Flower Girl and more bohemian in my opinion.
What can you make with Dyed Easter Eggs?
Here are our favorite recipes to make using hard boiled eggs:
- The Very Best Deviled Egg recipe
- Egg Salad Recipe
- Pimento Cheese Deviled Eggs…OMG…so good.
- Red Beet Pickled Eggs
- Salmon Nicoise Salad
- Barbecue Chicken Cobb Salad
And if you’re looking for even MORE SUPER FUN EGG DYING IDEAS….check out THESE EASY TIPS!
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Get the Recipe: How to Dye Easter Eggs with Whipped Cream Recipe
Ingredients
- 12 hard boiled eggs, large
- 2 cups vinegar
- 8 ounces whipped cream
- Gel food coloring
Instructions
- Place the eggs in a bowl and pour the vinegar over the eggs. Allow the eggs to soak in the vinegar for 5-10 minutes.
- Carefully dry the eggs with a paper towel. Set aside.
- Fill the wells of a standard muffin tin with the whipped cream and add drops of food coloring to the whipped cream.
- Using a knife, carefully swirl the food coloring into the whipped cream.
- Add one egg to each well and roll the egg in the whipped cream to coat. Allow the egg to sit in the whipped cream for 5-10 minutes.
- Remove the egg from the whipped cream and wipe clean with a paper towel. Do Not Rinse under water. The dye needs time to dry.
- Use to decorate or enjoy as a snack!
45 Comments on “How to Dye Easter Eggs with Whipped Cream”
These came out so beautiful and were very easy for two year old grandson and I to make.
I’m so happy to hear that! I hope you had a wonderful easter!
“Gather and Good “ target cage free eggs do not work. FYI.
So we just peeled em and re did that way.
Thank you for letting us know. It’s hard to test every brand to see if they work or not.
I can’t wait to try this! I hope I get the times right! Thanks for sharing your great tips!!!
You’re welcome! I hope they worked out for you, I hate when families are disappointed with my recipes. Happy Easter!
maybe I missed it but do you peel the eggs before dying them? It has been 20+ years since the last time I dyed eggs and I honestly cannot recall.
Hi! No, you dye them in the shell.
It worked ok for us but the colors were very faded and almost all of them turned out the same light pink color despite the darker purple being in most of them. It was ok but probably won’t do again
Hi Linzy, the muted colors are due to the eggs not sitting in the cream long enough or not using enough dye. I’m sorry you were disappointed.
This was so fun to do works really well!
I’m so happy you enjoyed it!
You said in two comments (from 2021 and 2022) that a certain brand of eggs doesn’t work because of how they process them, but then denied that happened to you. Well, I followed your recipe to the letter, and the dye rinsed right off. What a waste of money.
Well, it turned out that it wasn’t the brand of eggs at all and the amount of time we left them sit in the dye. People that have issues with muted colors or the dye not sticking are not using enough dye or not letting them sit in the cream long enough before wiping it off. So, I doubt your issue lies in the brand of eggs and more with a lack of patience.
Mine came out a lighter color but still adorable. Next year I’ll use more dye. Thanks for the great idea! Have a blessed Easter!
Thank you for your comment, Jodi! You definitely need to use a lot of dye to get the vibrant colors.