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This idea was inspired by a similar recipe for shaving cream easter eggs! We’ve replaced shaving cream with whipped cream as a medium for awesome tye-dyed eggs! The idea of soaking our food in shaving cream.. just didn’t sit well with me. Consider this fact (here comes my geeky-ness of my biology background): An egg shell is a semi-permiable membrane meaning that although it contains the egg, things can (and do) pass through the shell into the egg. An egg shell can allow particles such as carbon dioxide and oxygen to pass through.. and I’d guess bits of shaving cream ingredients too! Now, if you look at the ingredients in a can of shaving cream… I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t eat most of it! This recipe was created as a safer, tastier alternative to shaving cream easter eggs!
These produce very cool pastel colored eggs with unique swirls and patterns. The coloring is not vibrant once the whipped cream is rinsed off.
Whipped Cream Dyed Eggs
Ingredients:
1 large can or large tub of extra-creamy whipped cream or whipped topping such as Cool Whip GEL food coloring (or liquid) Gel works better and makes a brighter egg Desired amount of hard boiled eggs to dye Vinegar (Important. See below)
Directions:
Note: A couple of things to note about this method! The longer you leave the eggs, the darker the color. This method of dying eggs does produces a more pastel color. (However, using gel color does produce a darker color!) Some of the color will seep through onto the egg white (which is why I used whipped cream instead of shaving cream!).
