Once you learn how to dye eggs with colored whipped cream, it’ll be your new favorite way!
Creamy whipped topping, food coloring, hard-boiled eggs, and a sturdy pan are all you need for this easy, kid-friendly method for dying eggs.
Holly’s Recipe Highlights
- Flavor: Some of the color may bleed through the shell to the egg, but they’ll still taste like creamy hard-boiled eggs!
- Difficulty: A tray of whipped cream, food gel, and eggs is all you need!
Prep Note: Make hard-boiled eggs the day before so they are ready to use.
Ingredient Tips for Whipped Cream Eggs
- Eggs: Use any size of fresh, whole eggs. Hard-boil them in the microwave, air fryer, the Instant Pot, or on the stovetop.
- Whipped Cream: No need for fancy brands, since it’s not for consuming. A few cans of spray whipped cream or a couple tubs of whipped topping are fine.
- Coloring: Use gel or liquid food coloring.
How to Make Whipped Cream Easter Eggs:
- Spray or spread whipped cream in a large baking pan with sides.
- Drip food coloring over the top of the whipped cream, leaving space between each color.
- Lightly swirl the colors together with a spoon or wooden skewer.
- Roll the eggs in the whipped cream until they are coated.
- After 10 minutes, wipe the eggs clean.
Tips and Tricks for Eggstra Colorful Eggs
- Start with dry, cold, or room-temperature hard-boiled eggs.
- Submerge eggs in a bowl of white vinegar for two minutes and dry them thoroughly before using. This makes the colors more vivid. Add a couple of drops of vinegar to liquid or gel food coloring before dripping over the whipped cream as well.
- If staining is an issue, wear restaurant-grade plastic gloves.
- One roll in the colored whipped cream is best; this way, the colors don’t get muddled together.
- While the eggs are ‘marinating,’ this is a good time to take a few fun family pix!
- Cut paper towel or toilet tissue rolls into 3” pieces and use them as holders while the eggs dry.
How to Store Whipped Cream Easter Eggs
Keep dyed eggs in an egg carton in the refrigerator until ready to hide! Leftovers can be made into egg salad.
Whipped Cream Dyed Eggs
These whipped cream eggs are so easy and so fun to prepare!
Servings: 12 eggs
Ingredients
- 1 tub extra-creamy whipped cream or whipped topping
- Liquid food coloring
- Desired amount of eggs to dye
Instructions
- Spray or spread the whipped cream or whipped topping in a large baking dish or baking pan with sides.
- Drip food coloring liberally over the whipped cream, keeping a space of about 1 inch between drops.
- Use a spoon to swirl the colors around the whipped cream. Don’t mix it up too much, you want dramatic swirls of color!
- Roll your eggs in the colored cream, using the end of the spoon to nudge them. One complete roll is best, that way the colors don’t get muddy.
- Let your eggs sit for at least 10 minutes, letting the food coloring do its magic. The longer you let them sit, the brighter your dyed eggs will be. Half an hour would probably be the longest they should sit for food safety!
- Gently wipe your eggs clean with a paper or cloth towel or rinse them quickly under cool water.
- Paper towel or toilet paper rolls cut into 1 inch rounds work perfectly as holders for your beautiful eggs after they’ve been dyed, during proud photo ops, and before they get eaten or put away!
Did this with extra creamy cool whip and did not take well. barely any color after we wiped them. Might try again with whipped cream because it was so fun and easy to clean up. We did let them sit a long time too!