Coloring Easter Eggs has never been easier! These Easy Dyed Easter Eggs only use two things, shaving cream or cool whip & food coloring!
Now that Easter is only a few days away, I wanted to share my favorite way to dye eggs! These Easy Dyed Easter Eggs are seriously so simple, and the kids will love helping and seeing the vibrant colors (that's my favorite part too)!
You can even eat these after dying them if you use the cool whip method. I love using the eggs in this Best Ever Egg Salad or Avocado (no mayo) Egg Salad! So yum!
How pretty are these Easy Dyed Easter Eggs?!?! All you need is gel food coloring and shaving cream OR cool whip.
***If you are planning to eat these hard boiled eggs, I recommend using cool whip instead of shaving cream. You want to make sure that you aren't accidentally consuming the chemicals from the shaving cream.***
How to make Easy Dyed Easter Eggs:
I highly recommend using the Instant Pot to make Hard Boiled Eggs. Makes life so much easier! You can also use the AIR FRYER HARD BOILED EGGS method, which is super easy too!
- First off, if you use a muffin tin, it makes this REALLY easy! Load up each hole with shaving cream or cool whip. Add a few drops of gel food coloring (I like this one) to each hole.
- I did 2 colors in each one.
- Then, using a toothpick, lightly swirl the color around. You don't want to mix it up too much otherwise you won't have a big color contrast on your eggs!
- Next up, place the hard boiled eggs into each hole and lightly press down!
- Leave the eggs here for about 10 minutes and then flip them over!
- Leave the eggs for 10 more minutes on the opposite side.
- Remove the eggs from the tins, then lightly rinse them off. Set them on a paper towel or kitchen towel to dry.
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I plan on hiding the eggs for my kids on Easter morning. What will you do with your Easy Dyed Easter Eggs?
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- Instant Pot Lemon Cake (shortcut recipe) is moist, delicious, and easy!
- From brunch recipes to dessert, I have 23 of the BEST Easter Recipes for you! Definitely something that everyone will enjoy on Easter!
- A Carrot Cake Trifle is the ultimate easy dessert! Using boxed or homemade carrot cake, layering a delicious cream cheese mixture, and topping with walnuts make the perfect quick dessert!
- Easy Carrot Cake Squares are the full of fresh carrots and topped with delicious cream cheese frosting and walnuts!
Coloring Easter Eggs has never been easier! For these Easy Dyed Easter Eggs you only need two ingredients, shaving cream and food coloring!
- cool whip or shaving cream
- 12 hard boiled eggs (see recipe below)
- gel food coloring
- toothpick or something to swirl the colors
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Using a muffin tin, load up each hole with shaving cream or cool whip. Add a few drops of gel food coloring (I like this one) to each hole. *I did 2 colors in each one* Then, using a toothpick, lightly swirl the color around. Don't mix it up too much otherwise you won’t have a big color contrast on your eggs.
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Next, place the hard boiled eggs into each hole and lightly press down! Leave the eggs here for about 10 minutes and then carefully flip them over. Leave another 10 minutes.
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Lightly rinse them off. Set them on a paper towel or kitchen towel to dry.
Recipe Video
jess
I love how easy it was to be really creative with this style of egg coloring! thank you so much for sharing this amazing tip!
Andie
I love this way of dying eggs; I will never do the traditional way ever again!
Krystle
The Cool Whip version came out perfectly. I'll never dye eggs another way
Erin | Dinners, Dishes and Dessert
Looks absolutely fantastic! I'm excited to try this!
Andie Thueson
I have been searching for the perfect way to dye eggs when I stumbled upon this post. I was so impressed with how cheap and easy this was for me and my kids! I will definitely be making this our traditional way of dying eggs for the holiday seasons!
Sandra
This is such a fun idea!! My kids will surely enjoy this!
Catalina
I am using this technique to color Easter eggs this year!
Judy Allen
I am going to do this this year. One question, do you peel the eggs before dying them or dye with the shells on?
Allyson
Leave the shells on to dye the eggs!
Eggbert
Don’t you need to cook/coat the eggs in vinegar first? My friend tried this and the result was unsatisfactory - the dye just did not stick to the eggs.
Allyson
No, you do not need to coat the eggs. If your friend followed the directions listed, it should work perfectly!
Deanna
I had the same exact problem- I followed the directions to the “t” and wound up with plain white eggs at the end.
Allyson
Did you use gel food coloring?
Ann Richards
This didn’t work for me either. The gel colors were beautiful. After 30 min I checked one and lightly rinsed. No colored really adhered. I left them for 2 hours and tried again. They are all very very pale. It makes me wonder if some eggs have a coating added that wouldn’t allow it to adhere.
Crystal Pearcy-Blowers
Will this work with regular food coloring or does it need to be gel?
Allyson
I always use gel because the colors are much more vibrant.