Today’s treat is another fun food art for your Halloween gatherings – Deviled eggs decorated with black olive spiders. Like last Monday’s recipe for Monster Eyes, use your favorite deviled egg recipe or mine. If you want a gross monster look, add a few drops of green food coloring to the egg yolk filling. I’m not crazy about food coloring, and I stayed with the traditional yellow filling. I think it’s still fun. Cut your eggs in half lengthwise and fill with your deviled egg mixture.
Place 1 olive half, cut side down, in the center of each deviled egg to create the body of the spider. Add 4 small olive slices on each side of the body to make its legs. Cute and oh so easy! Serve on a black tray or place each spider egg in your favorite Halloween cupcake liner. Each person can hold the spider egg in the paper wrapper.
Halloween Spider Deviled Egg Appetizers
Use organic when available, makes 24 spiders
Halloween Spider Deviled Egg Appetizers
Ingredients
- 36 Pitted black olives, cut in half lengthwise
- 12 Hard boiled eggs shelled and halved
- Several drops of green food coloring (optional)
- Paprika (optional)
Instructions
- Use favorite deviled egg recipe or mine for filling
- Add a couple of drops of food coloring as desired to filling (optional)
- Fill egg whites with deviled filling
- Round filling with spoon
- Press 1/2 black olive into top of filling for body
- Save 11 more halves for bodies
- Cut 24 halves into 4 small slices each
- Add 4 slices per side to create spider legs
- Optional sprinkle with paprika
- Optional serve each spider in Halloween cupcake liner
Enjoy!
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These look fabulous! I love eggs and black olives, so may have to make these x
#MMBC
I love the black olive spiders – what a fabulous idea for a Halloween party :o)
#MMBC
Have a great day!
I think I prefer olive spiders to the real things 🙂 These look seriously fun and so authentic, what a great idea for a Halloween supper.
#mmbc
These are great! Black is so hard to achieve with food colouring. I made a pirate ship birthday cake for one of my boys years ago. I remember I used so much colouring to achieve black rather than grey that all the kids mouths were smeared in black!
I can just imagine their mouths! Have a great day!
I love, love, love the spider eggs – they are super cute and so halloweeny! What a marvelous idea!
Thank you for sharing this great recipe, perfect for a Halloween party!
These are something else. I am sure they will be a hit on any Halloween table. TFS
Good morning Carol, I can’t believe almost that creepy time of year again! Your spider eggs would look good on any Halloween table and are probably the only type of spider I’d be happy to see… Jelly sweet spiders I can do too!
xx
I don’t like spiders but cool!
These are SUPER CUTE!
These are too fun! My family loves deviled eggs. I’ve never thought to add the olive spider for Halloween. Thanks for sharing!
You’re welcome! My family loves deviled eggs and we have them for almost all holiday parties. I just try to make them seasonal.
WOW, those do look like spiders!! Thanks so much for linking up at the #UnlimitedMonthlyLinkParty 5. Shared.
I love the idea of using an olive as a spider. Clever! The taste combination must be good too. I know my children would love this idea. #MMBC
These are so fun. I tried to make spiders with olives once and it didn’t quite work as well as yours! Thanks for sharing at the What’s for Dinner party! Have a fabulous week!!
These are so cute, Carol! I love deviled eggs so I hope to try this soon! Thanks for sharing on Farm Fresh Tuesdays!