Deviled Egg Eyeballs

Deviled egg eyeballs are classic deviled eggs dressed up for Halloween: a creepy green yolk filling, a black olive pupil, and red “veins” drawn on with food coloring. You need six everyday ingredients and about 30 minutes, and kids love helping with the decorating. What is it about Halloween that makes eating creepy looking food, like spooky deviled egg eyeballs, so fun? I honestly don’t know, but creepy looking food IS fun.

At a glance: Halloween deviled eggs decorated to look like bloodshot eyeballs, with green yolk filling and black olive pupils. Six hard boiled eggs make 12 eyeballs in about 30 minutes, using ingredients you likely have on hand. Kids can help mix the filling and draw the veins. A printable recipe card is below.

Our current neighborhood throws a Halloween block party. It’s so fun to get together and see all the kids’ (and adults’) costumes, eat and visit with each other before the real fun of trick or treating begins. Last year my kids asked me to make these easy Halloween deviled eggs to take to the party. They were a big hit and I’ll be making them again this year for the next Halloween party.

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Deviled Egg Eyeballs

If you have a favorite deviled egg recipe, use that and just follow the decorating tips.  If you’re looking for a new deviled egg recipe, I share mine below.

Of course, you start with hard boiled eggs. 

How to Make the Best Hard Boiled Eggs for Deviled Eggs

1. Place eggs in a pot in one layer. Add water until eggs are covered with approximately 1 inch of water.
2. Bring to a boil, a rolling boil.
3. Cover pan with a lid and remove the pan from the burner.
4. Let the pan sit covered for 10 minutes.

To Make Hard Boiled Eggs Easy to Peel

1. Drain hot water from the pan.
2. Fill pot with cold or ice water.
3. Add a cup of ice cubes to the water and let stand.
4. When ice cubes melt add another cup of ice cubes.
5. When ice melts, remove the eggs from the pan and peel or refrigerate

Peel the boiled eggs, cut them neatly in half lengthwise and put the yolks in a bowl. Mash the yolks with the mayonnaise and mustard (the amounts are in the recipe card below). Add green food coloring and mix well until you get a creepy green color. The green food coloring and the yellow egg yolks give you this radioactive shade of green that works perfectly with the creepy eyeball look for your deviled egg eyeballs

Use a toothpick dipped in red food coloring to draw veins on the egg white halves for a bloodshot eyeballs look. This is easy to do, but it does take a little time. You’ll also have to change your toothpick out a few times, so have several toothpicks on hand. These veins are what give the Halloween deviled eggs that eyeball look.

You could try using a very fine clean paint brush to brush the food dye veins onto the egg.

You could also try an edible red food pen. I’ve used the black one and it worked well on cookies and had no taste, so I’d think the red one would work well and save you time on the veins. It’s definitely worth giving it a try.

Fill the empty egg half with the green yolk filling. You can use a piping bag for the filling if you have one, but I just use a spoon to scoop and the filling for the egg halves.

Top each egg half with a sliced black olive. Take the time to center the sliced black olive so that it looks like an eyeball centered in the deviled egg. You can substitute a sliced green olive with red pimento to create a different look. If your halves wobble on the platter, this deviled eggs recipe from Nebraska Extension suggests trimming a very thin slice off the rounded bottom of each egg white before filling so they sit flat.

Voila! You’ve created creepy eye deviled eggs for Halloween or any fun food occasion.

When to Serve Deviled Eyeballs Eggs

• Send in your child’s lunch on Halloween (packed with an ice pack).
• Serve with a home lunch on Halloween.
• Serve as an after-school snack.
• Serve as a candy-alternative at parties.
• Serve just before trick or treating as a protein-packed snack.

Make-Ahead and Party Tips

You can make these earlier in the day and keep them in the refrigerator until it’s time to head out. A few food safety basics keep the party fun:

• Watch the 2-hour clock. Hard boiled eggs shouldn’t be out of the refrigerator for more than 2 hours total, and that includes the time you spend decorating. Drawing veins takes a little while, so it helps to work in small batches and pop finished eggs back in the fridge.
• Set the platter on ice if the eggs will be out longer than 2 hours, like at a long block party (FDA).
• Pack them cold. For lunches or a party away from home, pack them in an insulated bag or cooler with ice or frozen gel packs.
• Leftovers keep in a sealed container in the refrigerator for 3 to 4 days.

Deviled Egg Eyeballs FAQ

Printable Recipe

You can print out the recipe in the box below.

Deviled Egg Eyeballs

A fun creepy Halloween snack that is always a hit.

Print Recipe Pin Recipe

Prep Time 20 minutes mins

Cook Time 10 minutes mins

Total Time 30 minutes mins

Servings 12

Calories 71 kcal

Ingredients

  

• 6 Hard Boiled Eggs
• 1/4 Cup Mayonnaise
• 1 Tsp Mustard
• Green Food Coloring
• Red Food Coloring
• Sliced Black Olives

Instructions

 

• Peel cooled hard boiled eggs. Slice in half long ways.
• Put egg yolks in a bowl and mash well.
• Mix in mayonnaise and mustard. Mix well.
• Stir in green food coloring until you achieve your desired color.
• Spoon or pipe green filling back into the egg halves.
• Place one black olive slice on each egg half.
• Dip a toothpick into red food coloring. Draw veins on the egg halves as in photo.

The kids were giggling over the tray full of fun deviled eyeballs. They really are a delicious and fun party food for any Halloween party.

These are easy enough for the kiddos to help make and fun enough that they’ll want to help make these deviled egg eyeballs. Be sure to pin so you can make deviled eggs made to look scary each and every Halloween.

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