Cool Whip Easter Eggs

Learn how to color easter eggs with cool whip and food coloring. These easy step by step directions for Cool Whip Easter Eggs will give you beautiful dyed hardboiled eggs that are perfect for Easter. Kids will love making them and parents will love that there is less mess!

Cool Whip Easter Eggs

Coloring eggs is an Easter tradition in our house that we do every year. For many years we used the dye kits from the store that you use with white vinegar and I always ended up having a huge mess. While the kids had fun coloring the eggs, every year at least one if not more of the cups of coloring was knocked over. That mess is not fun to clean up at all. 

A friend of mine told me about how she makes Shaving cream dyed Easter eggs and we tried that one year and they came out amazing. I shared about them on the blog, and some people had concerns about the chemicals in the shaving cream with the eggs so I set out to find a solution. I tested out other things of a similar consistency to shaving cream that were food items to see if it would work and found that using whipped topping worked perfectly. 

This easy easter egg dying method is perfect for the whole family and the end result is beautifully colored easter eggs. If you have toddlers and younger children the whipped topping easter eggs method is great because there is no worry of them putting their hands in their mouth with something that is not safe. 

Using cool whip or any other brand of whipped topping and food coloring to color hardboiled eggs for Easter is great for those who want to avoid using chemicals when using shaving cream to color easter eggs. 

You can make beautiful colored Easter eggs with almost no mess when you use the Cool Whip Easter Eggs dying method. It is perfect for kids and adults and there is no worry of the egg dye cup spilling and making a huge mess!

Fun Easter Activities for Kids

• Easter Egg Garland
• Salt Dough Easter Egg Ornaments
• Easy Easter Wreath
• Easter Bunny Hot Chocolate Bombs
• Toilet Paper Roll Bunny

Tips for making Cool Whip Easter Eggs

• Use a deep dish. Using a deep dish makes it easier for the eggs to be covered in the cool whip and for the kids to roll the eggs around.
• Thaw the cool whip. For best results thaw the cool whip so you can easily spread it in the baking dish and easily roll the eggs around in the cool whip and food coloring.
• Use Gel food coloring. The colors will be brighter and more vibrant when you use gel food coloring instead of liquid food coloring. If you are using liquid food coloring I suggest adding a few drops of vinegar to the whipped cream or doing the vinegar submerging to get a better coloring on the egg shells.
• Leave the eggs in the whipped cream for at least 30 minutes. To get bright colors you want the eggs to sit for quite a bit of time. I suggest at least 30 minutes but prefer to leave them in the cool whip and food coloring for 45 minutes to an hour.
• Use Vinegar. For extra vibrant colors before rolling the hard boiled eggs in the cool whip and food coloring put them in a bowl of vinegar for 1-2 minutes. You do not have to do this but I find you get even brighter colors when you do.
• Be Gentle. When you are rinsing the cool whip off of the eggs be gentle so you do not crack the shells.
• Use disposable gloves. If you are worried about the food coloring dying your hands, using plastic disposable gloves will keep the food dye from staining your hands.

How to make the Colors brighter when Coloring Eggs with Cool Whip

• Leave the eggs in longer. These colored easter eggs will be a light color if you do not leave them in the cool whip for 30 minutes or more. The longer you leave them in the cool whip and food coloring mixture the darker they will get.
• Use vinegar. You can also soak the hardboiled eggs in vinegar for 1-2 minutes before putting them in the cool whip to make the colors darker.
• Add vinegar to cool whip. Add a few drops of vinegar to the cool whip when you are adding the food coloring in and mix it thru out the cool whip with the food coloring and the colors will be darker.
• Gel food coloring. Using gel food coloring will give darker and brighter colors compared to using liquid food coloring.

What to Make with Leftover Dyed Easter Eggs

There are lots of ways to use any leftover easter eggs you have. We like eating them alone for easter breakfast but then using them in other recipes when we have leftovers.

They are perfectly cooked for using when making egg salad and you can make sandwiches or Egg Salad Lettuce Wraps. You can also slice them up and put them on top of a salad, or make a Chicken Cobb Salad.

Potato Salad and Pasta salads including my favorite Egg Salad Pasta Salad. Of course, we can not leave out deviled eggs, we love Pastel Deviled Eggs and Bacon Deviled Eggs.

How to Make Hard Boiled Eggs

To get started you are going to need hardboiled eggs. Hardboiled eggs are simple to make and there are a few different ways that you can make them. Use your preferred method and then allow them to cool completely before getting started dying the eggs.

• Instant Pot Hard Boiled Eggs
• stovetop Hard boiled eggs method
• air fryer hard boiled eggs
• oven baked hard boiled eggs

How to Store Hardboiled Eggs

Hardboiled eggs need to be stored in the fridge. It is important to store the eggs within 2 hours after they are done being cooked. Be sure to store them on an inside shelf in the fridge and not on the fridge door.

How long are Hard boiled eggs good for?

Hard-boiled eggs will keep fresh for about a week in the fridge if they are left in the shell. If the eggs are peeled it is best to eat them within 3 days. Hardboiled eggs are good left out for a max of 2 hours. If you are using them for Easter egg hunts or dying eggs make sure you have them back in the fridge within 2 hours or they are eaten.

Cool Whip Easter Eggs Supplies

• 1 dozen hard boiled eggs
• 1 container of cool whip
• Food coloring
• Deep baking dish or casserole dish
• wooden or metal skewers

How to make Cool Whip Easter Eggs

First, get all of your supplies and the ingredients needed to make the Cool Whip eggs. 

Allow Cool Whip to thaw a little bit. Pour the tub of Cool Whip into a 9×13 inch pan. Spread the cool whip with a spatula in an even layer in the pan.

Add drops of food coloring around the Cool Whip. Make sure to use different colors so the eggs will be tye dyed. You can put different color drops together to make the eggs have multiple colors.

Use your skewers (or the butter knife, or handle side of a spoon) to swirl the colors into the shaving cream. You can make single color areas of have areas with multiple colors so you can make tie dye eggs.

Then roll the eggs through the cool whip and food coloring coating the egg with the cool whip. As you roll more eggs into the cool whip the food coloring will spread throughout the cool whip.

Once covered in cool whip, place eggs on a plate or back in the egg carton with the cool whip on them. Let the eggs sit for at least 30 minutes.

Using a paper towel whip the cool whip off the eggs. Then rinse the eggs with cold water if needed to get the cool whip off the eggs.

Place the eggs back into the egg carton and store them in the refrigerator until using or eating.

Fun Easter Recipes

• Easter Bunny Cupcakes
• Peeps Pudding Cups
• Easter Bunny Pudding Parfaits
• Homemade Chocolate covered Marshmallow Eggs
• Chocolate covered Bunny Peeps