How to Make Cascarones (Confetti Eggs)
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Updated Mar 17, 2025, Published Mar 03, 2020
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Start a new tradition this year with cascarones—brightly colored, confetti-filled eggs that are the ultimate DIY Easter and fiesta party favor! These festive eggs add a playful surprise to any celebration.
What Are Cascarones?
Cascarones are empty eggshells that have been dyed, filled with paper confetti, and sealed with colorful tissue paper. Their name comes from the Spanish word for shell: “cáscara.” While they are traditionally used during Easter and fiestas, they bring joy to any gathering!
A Family Tradition
Growing up, coloring eggs, filling them with confetti, and breaking them over each other’s heads was a cherished Easter tradition. The laughter, the vibrant colors, and the fun of the hunt made the holiday even more special.
Now, we continue this tradition with our own children, watching their creativity shine as they decorate their eggs. Every year, they get more and more inventive!
Supplies to Make Cascarones
Creating cascarones is easy and fun! Here’s what you’ll need:
- Glue or a glue stick
- Empty, hollowed-out eggshells
- Food coloring or egg dye
- Confetti (store-bought or homemade)
- Scissors
- Small pieces of tissue paper
How to Make Cascarones
Step 1: Crack Eggs. Carefully crack a small hole at the top of each egg.
Step 2: Hollow Out the Eggs. Empty out the contents. Save the eggs for cooking!
Step 3: Rinse shells. Rinse the shells thoroughly and let them dry completely.
Step 4: Dye the Eggshells. Just like traditional Easter eggs, color your eggs using food dye or egg coloring kits. Let them dry.
Step 5: Fill with Confetti. Gently fill each hollow egg with confetti. You can make your own by cutting up colored paper!
Step 6: Seal with Tissue Paper. Cut small circles of tissue paper. Use glue to secure the tissue paper over the opening. Let dry.
Step 7: Celebrate! Hide them for an Easter egg hunt or surprise a friend by cracking one over their head—it’s said to bring good luck!
🎥 Watch the video to see how easy it is to make cascarones at home! Watch this video to see how to hollow out egg.
The Meaning Behind Cascarones
Legend has it that if a cascarón is cracked over your head, good luck will follow! This tradition is a playful way to bring joy and positivity to your Easter celebration.
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Will you be making cascarones with your family this year? Let me know in the comments!
How to Make Cascarones
Equipment
- Newspaper, craft paper, or a plastic tablecloth
- Scissors
Ingredients
- Eggs
- Easter egg color kit
- Vinegar, optional for vibrant colored eggs
- Tissue paper, cut into small squares
- Glue
- Paper confetti or hole punched construction paper
Instructions
- Prepare the egg decorating work area by covering your table with newspaper, craft paper, or a plastic tablecloth.
- Be sure to have plenty of napkins handly for little decorators to dry their hands on or to clean up any spills.
- With a spoon, gently tap the top of an egg.
- Remove the bits of shell, peeling away enough to make a small 1/2-inch hole.
- Empty contents of the egg out into a bowl.
- Thoroughly rinse the eggshell and shake out excess water. Let the eggshell air dry upside down in an empty egg carton.
- Dye the eggshells using an egg coloring kit. Add a splash of vinegar to the dye for vibrant color.
- When the eggshells are dry fill with confetti.
- Once filled, apply glue around the outside of the hole and cover with tissue paper.
- Make a dozen or more and celebrate Easter by breaking your cascarones over your friends' or family members' heads.
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Notes
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
This is going to be so fun!!!!!! I hope we’re lucky!
I remember making this at school when I was a kid. I had an advantage, though. The cooks would save all the eggs at my parents’ restaurant so I was always the one with the most eggs to break over kids’ heads. It was a lot of fun!
Lucky Ben…you must have been quite popular with your dozens of cascarones.
Beautiful!!!!! I’ve never heard of this tradition and I love it.
This brings a lot of wonderful memories, with my children, Veronica, Michael and Yvette. Now I get to relive these memories with my beautiful grandchildren. It’s so much fun watching the kids running around hunting for the cacarones, then the real fun starts. Breaking them on everybody’s head.
Hola!
It’s so beautiful to see colors everywhere 😀
I like very much the idea of breaking eggs in another’s head 😉 I will do them when I have children.
In Spain we don’t have that tradition, and I wonder why, because it’s lovely!
These are beautiful…is this a Mexican tradition or Latin tradition? Just wondering because I am so desperately trying to encourage my son to be proud of his Dominican background and my step-daughter to be proud of her Puerto Rican background. My gringa family has no traditions because there’s no love…I do NOT want to spend the rest of my life without the love and unity that all families should have – so I have to start my own traditions with my new familia! Muy Bueno has reminded me of the importance of family, traditions, heritage etc. MUCHAS GRACIAS! 🙂
Patricia, follow your heart. Sounds like you’re ready to start some of your own family traditions. Home is where your heart is and your family will look to you for all the great traditions you create con amor. BTW, these cascarones are a Mexican tradition. Besitos!!
I remember my abuelita starting to save the blown out eggshells (rinsed) & stored in their egg cartons starting at Valentines Day! She would make eggy goods leading up to Easter like Chile Rellenos, Tortitas de Camaron & of course morning omelettes! We woyld have dozens of eggs to color the weekend before Easter, dry, fill & prepare for the wonderful Easter hunt after Sunday misa. The adults would hide the eggs while we were kept busy with warm pan & coffee or milk. Then we were set loose to find the eggs and chase each other til we tired. Naptime at noon when it was hot & the fun was over. Paper confetti was used because it would disappear into the grass and become one with my Grandmothers garden. I’m 50 now and hope to do this with my grandbabies someday!
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I never made these myself, but I certainly bought plenty of them for my son when he was young. One oh his great joys was going to the Jardín/Zócolo to smash cascarones on heads with the other kids. I loved it when the eggs were always filled with confetti, as you have done, but not so much when flour and glitter became popular. This post brings back a lot of happy memories for me. Thanks.
Oh my gosh, thank you for this tutorial. I love it! I’ll be making these this year! =) And the photos are such attention grabbers – gorgeous.
made the Beef Brisket Tacos recipe….delicious….will have to attempt these cascarones….
What a Beautiful tradition. I don’t have any Easter traditions but Hey I can always start one! no?