Cool Whip Easter Eggs

Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 15 minutes
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Cool Whip Easter Eggs: how to use cool whip and food coloring to dye Easter Eggs, giving the eggs a unique watercolor effect! You can also use shaving cream!

Easter Eggs dyed with cool whip.

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Aren’t these DIY Easter Eggs just gorgeous? Well guess what, I have a secret. 

These are Cool Whip Easter Eggs. Thatโ€™s right, I dyed Easter Eggs with Cool Whip! 

Donโ€™t fret, if you donโ€™t have cool whip on hand, you can also dye Easter Eggs with shaving cream. 

I learned this trick way too many years ago, back in girl scouts, and it has always been my favorite easy way to dye Easter eggs.

My girls really LOVE to dye their eggs this way now and wonโ€™t go back to the old cups of vinegar and dye.

Bonus for me – no gross smelling vinegar making the entire kitchen smell! 

Swirls of colored cool whip for easter eggs.

Food Coloring options for Cool Whip Easter Eggs

You have a few options for what kind of food dye to use in your cool whip or shaving cream. 

The easiest way to dye your Easter Eggs is with the gel food coloring. You just squeeze the little bottles and drizzle the gel food coloring. 

However, for a richer final egg color, I recommend using Wilton icing colors (affiliate link). I find them at Walmart in the baking department. 

These are thicker, so you have to scoop out the food dye and place it on top of the shaving cream/cool whip. I use toothpicks to do that.

Then you can mix the cool whip and food dye in a large casserole dish like shown above or in individual bowls. 

Watercolor Easter Eggs! Easter eggs are dyed using shaving cream and gel food color to create beautiful swirls of color!

Shaving Cream Easter Eggs

If you choose to use shaving cream versus cool whip to dye Easter Eggs, make sure you get the fluffy white kind.

You donโ€™t want the moisturizing gel kind, you want the fluffy white cheap kind that you usually find on the bottom shelf.

I used the Barbasol brand of shaving cream (affiliate link) that was just $1 at my local store. 

Both cool whip and shaving cream work great to dye eggs, however I tend to prefer the shaving cream. 

Itโ€™s a little more sturdy and holds up just a little better, but really, both work great! 

Brown and white eggs in a white bowl.

Besides cool whip/shaving cream and food dye, you will need just a few more items.

The biggest being hard boiled eggs and you have to use white eggs, not brown. 

I know, I love the gorgeous brown eggs I buy at the farmerโ€™s market on the weekends. 

But for your eggs to turn out the right colors, you need traditional white eggs. 

You will also want to have a bowl of water, paper towels and gloves on hand.

Depending on how you are dying your eggs (especially if dying them in the traditional way with vinegar), you will want to check out this smart drying method

Pink watercolor easter eggs in a basket.

If you are planning an epic Easter feast, make sure and save your dyed Easter Eggs to make My Mamaโ€™s Deviled Eggs

That recipe has been in our family for years and is extra delicious and perfect to use up all your leftover Easter Eggs. 

To round it all off, I will be making our favorite Pear Glazed Ham and this adorable Planted Carrot Chocolate Easter Cake

Watercolor Easter Eggs! Easter eggs are dyed using shaving cream and gel food color to create beautiful swirls of color!

These Cool Whip Easter Eggs are seriously so gorgeous and incredibly easy to dye.

They are also super cheap to make. The whole project cost me $5 — including the eggs!

Watch the video below to see how I swirled the food coloring and how much I used!

You and your kids are going to love how fun these Cool Whip dyed Easter Eggs are to make together. Coloring Easter Eggs has never been so fun! 

Swirling the colors is like making a tie dye panting and then rinsing off each Easter Egg to see the final look is always a surprise!

I hope you and your family enjoy making these together and have a very colorful and Happy Easter

Watercolor Easter Eggs! Easter eggs are dyed using shaving cream and gel food color to create beautiful swirls of color!
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Yield: 18 Easter Eggs

Cool Whip Easter Eggs

Cool Whip Easter Eggs: how to use cool whip and food coloring to dye Easter Eggs, giving the eggs a unique watercolor effect! You can also use shaving cream!
Prep Time5 minutes
Cook Time10 minutes
Total Time15 minutes

Ingredients

  • 18 hardboiled eggs
  • 1 tub cool whip
  • gel food colors or icing food colors
  • bowl of water
  • gloves
  • paper towels

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Instructions 

  • Add cool whip into medium sized bowls or one extra large casserole dish. (If you want to do a lot of individual colors, I recommend doing separate bowls. If you would like to do mixes of colors and tie-dye eggs, I recommend one large casserole dish.)
  • Very heavily drizzle food coloring onto cool whip (if using the icing food colors, I dropped the icing food coloring on top with a toothpick).
  • Swirl it with a knife or a straw leaving some white showing (watch the video above to see how I did mine).
  • Roll eggs into cool whip. Let sit for 5 to 10 minutes (you can see the difference in dyeing times in the video).
  • Rinse eggs in a bowl of water and set on paper towels to dry.

Video

Notes

Cool Whip vs Shaving Cream: You can also use white classic fluffy shaving cream to accomplish the same thing. However, for saftey purposes if you plan to eat the eggs after dying, it's best to use food safe cool whip.

Nutrition

Serving: 1egg, Calories: 92kcal, Carbohydrates: 2g, Protein: 6g, Fat: 6g, Saturated Fat: 2g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g, Cholesterol: 188mg, Sodium: 68mg, Sugar: 2g

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We had an early Easter celebration at my kid’s school and we made these with the 2nd grade class. They were a HIT! The kids loved all the different colors and swirls they could add… and the teachers appreciated less cups of vinegar to be spilled on the floor like last year.

These look so fun! I tried the Shaving Cream Eggs and then learned that they aren’t edible. I need to try these instead.

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I can’t see the video.

Egg shells are extremely porous. While the coloring result is lovely, I would be concerned about eating the eggs after exposure to the shaving cream.

Does the shaving cream affect the taste of the eggs at all? Im wondering if ‘squirty’ cream in a can would work just as well?

Ahh, the curiosity of 2-year old! At least you got to enjoy some pretty Easter eggs before they were splatted. ๐Ÿ™‚

This is so fun to make with the kids! I am sure they’ll love this!

Ha ha, gotta love them! I am so doing this with my son for Easter this year!

This did not work for me! Tried to do it at my son’s bday party with our family and his cousins and wasted a lot of time trying to get it right and what we did wrong. We let the eggs sit in the cream for 10+ minutes. Even tried soaking the egg in vinegar afterwards before the whip again to see if that helped. Nope! Wondering if the brand of whip cream mattered? Hope it works out for everyone else!

A genius idea! Although I must admit I gasped out loud to the girls’ antics!

Such a great Easter idea! ย Had to laugh at your story, my kids have done the same to me lol

They look wonderful! Love this idea!

I can’t believe we’ve never tried it this way before. The colors look so vibrant!! Pinning!

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