Everyone loves deviled eggs, everyone but me. It's the chickens-don't-pee-yellow-yoke-thing...can't get past it...but that doesn't mean I can't appreciate a beautiful deviled egg! The girls had fun turning ordinary eggs into spiders - and they were really creepy! I hate spiders and I hate eggs, so seeing the two together was enough to make my skin crawl! But like I said, everyone loves deviled eggs, and these were no exception - they were wolfed down - spiders and all!
Spider Eggs - Pots and Pins
(For normal deviled eggs, those that don't look like spiders, leave off the olives...these are really, really good...even if I don't eat them I can tell you I always get asked for the recipe!)
6 hard-cooked eggs, peeled
3 to 4 tablespoons mayonnaise
1 teaspoon finely minced green onion
1/2 teaspoon mustard (you can use regular yellow mustard or Dijon, which it was I prefer)
2 teaspoons dill pickle juice (from a jar of pickles)
salt and pepper to taste
1 can (15 oz.) whole black olives
Cut all 6 eggs in half lengthwise and slip out yolks into a bowl. Reserve 10 egg-halves and either eat two or toss them, as you will only fill 10 egg-halves. Mash yolks with a fork. Stir in 3 tablespoons of mayonnaise, onions, mustard, pickle juice, salt and pepper. Fill 10 of the whites with yolk mixture, mounding slightly in the center. Cut olives in half, use one half of the olive as the body of the spider. Cut the other half, lengthwise into thirds and use these pieces as the spider legs, putting 3 legs on each side of the body...(I know spiders have 4 legs on each side but the egg just isn't big enough so just pretend!) Makes 10 deviled eggs. Cover and refrigerate until serving time.
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