Coloring Easter Eggs with Shaving Cream & Food Coloring

So once again, I saw something on Pinterest and thought that it looked cool so I decided to give it a try.

First problem that I had with coloring Easter eggs with shaving cream was, hard boiled eggs. Now I can bake like Betty, but hard boiled eggs is something I always mess up. So I turned to Google for some help.

I found out that hard boiled eggs are a bit time consuming. Everyone seems to have their own way of doing it with the same result but everyone had different temperatures, cook times, cool times, etc. After reading a few different articles about boiling them and even baking them in the oven, I decided on boiling. This article on Real Simple seemed to be the most straight forward to me.

Here are the 3 Easy Steps

1. Place eggs in a pot filled with cold water: Set eggs in a single layer in a saucepan. Water should cover eggs by one to two inches.
2. Boil the water: Bring the water to a full, rolling boil, and cover the saucepan. Turn off the stove, remove the pot from the burner, and let it stand, covered, for 12 minutes (set the timer).
3. Submerge the eggs in cold water

Drain the pot, and transfer the eggs to a bowl of cold water, to stop the cooking process.

I actually left mine sitting in the covered pot for about 17 minutes. It seemed to work. After letting the eggs cool and dry I got out some shaving cream and food coloring and got the party started.

Coloring Eggs with Shaving Cream

I got out an old baking sheet and covered it in cheap shaving cream.

Now it’s time to add the food coloring….

Then I used a toothpick to swirl it around

I put on some plastic gloves and started to swirl the eggs around in the shaving cream mix. The first few looked pretty, rainbow swirls! The first time, I tried just a couple eggs and took them out of the shaving cream and put them on a plate. I left them for about 10-15 minutes and wiped them off. This is what they looked like…

Not too impressive if you ask me. As a matter of fact, it looks more colorful in the picture than it does in person.  Boo! Try again.

This time, I swirled the eggs around and just left them sitting in the shaving cream. I left them for about an hour.

See how the colors start mixing and looking murky? Yuck. I just kept swirling and hoped for the best.

Here is what came of it…

I still don’t think they are very impressive, marbleized, tie-dyed, or even pretty. They really just look messy to me. Once again, they look even more colorful in the picture than they do in person. I am declaring this Pinterest adventure a FAIL.

I wasn’t the only one with this result, see another fail here.

One thing that I noticed (after wasting my time on this) and would like to point out is that NO ONE seems to have pictures of the end result! Check it out…

• http://kygl.com/how-to-make-shaving-cream-easter-egg-dye/ (no end result)
• http://mix1043fm.com/shaving-cream-easter-eggs/ (watch the video, they say nothing about eggs or food coloring)
• http://momsneedtoknow.com/shaving-cream-easter-eggs/ (this one tells you about it and uses a picture from another site that used paint…not food coloring)
• http://totschool.shannons.org/beautiful-marbled-eggs/ (this one uses paint)

I should have noticed this and now I know why. My advice is to not waste your time or have your kitchen smelling like shaving cream for the next few days (even the original, unscented still stinks). So grant it, it is a fun idea. An activity for the kids but USE PAINT, the food coloring part is bullshit.