Halloween is my favorite, and these devilish Halloween deviled eggs are a great savory Halloween treat. If you like your deviled egg recipes to have a little kick to them, I think you’ll really enjoy the spice and heat Sriracha and horseradish bring to the party.
You may also really enjoy my deviled corn recipe. Let’s devil up all the things!
For ease of browsing, here are all of my appetizer recipes in one place. Now let’s make these deviled eggs, shall we?
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These Deviled Eggs, At a Glance
✅Skill Level: Beginner
✅Skills: Hard Boiling Eggs, Peeling Eggs, Mixing, Piping or Filling
✅Type: Side Dish
✅Number of Ingredients: 10
✅Prep Time: 10 minutes
✅Cook Time: 15 minutes
✅Yield: 24 servings (12 eggs, deviled)
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Devilish Halloween Deviled Eggs
I truly love deviled eggs, y’all. Almost as much as pimento cheese. Almost.
These Halloween deviled eggs get their devilishness from garlic, horseradish, and Sriracha, and they are very more-ish.
Deviled eggs are very easy to make, but sometimes folks have trouble hard boiling their eggs to make them.
Let’s take a look at what I think is the best way to hard-boil eggs, and then we’ll make these little dudes, okay?
The Best Way to Hard Boil Eggs
- Place your eggs in a 3 quart saucepan in an even layer. I can fit a dozen eggs in my 3 quart saucepan, but of course you can use a smaller pan if you want to boil fewer eggs.
- Cover with cold water by about an inch.
- Put the lid on the pan and bring to a low boil. Not just a high simmer with small bubbles, but a true low boil with large bubbles surfacing rather violently, so keep an eye on them. As the water is heating, stir the eggs occasionally to keep the yolks from settling to one side or the other. You want the yolks to be suspended as close to the center of the whites so you don’t end up with lopsided deviled eggs.
- When your eggs have come to a low boil, remove them from the heat, and put the lid back on the pot.
- Set your timer for 15 minutes. Fill a large bowl with ice and then add cold water.
- When the timer goes off, fish out your eggs with a large spider strainer and submerge them in the waiting ice bath.
Ingredients
To devil eggs pretty much means to mess around with the filling, or devil it. So you can use your favorite flavors here.
Here are the ingredients in my deviled eggs:
- hard-boiled eggs
- mayonnaise: if you don’t like mayonnaise, substitute with your favorite creamy salad dressing like Miracle Whip
- apple cider vinegar: any type of vinegar will do. If you don’t have ACV, use red wine vinegar or similar
- Sriracha: use your favorite hot sauce here if you don’t have or don’t like Sriracha
- horseradish: you can leave it out if you must, but man is it good in these eggs!
- garlic: you can use minced or garlic powder here
- liquid smoke: if you don’t have liquid smoke, you can substitute in anything that has a bit of smoke flavor: 2 teaspoons of bacon fat, a sprinkle of smoked paprika, or some smoked black pepper. If you aren’t a fan of smoky flavors, you can leave it out entirely
- salt and pepper
- sliced black olives: black or green is just fine
How to Peel Hard Boiled Eggs
PRO TIP: Start peeling the egg at the rounded end, because this is usually where there’s an air pocket.
Hard-cooked eggs can be a pain to peel because the membrane between the shell and the white can be stubborn. And you might curse.
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To minimize any cursing. tap the egg all over on the counter to crack the shell. Not just in one place, but cracked all around.
It can also help to peel your eggs under running water, because the force of the water can help loosen the membrane.
Interested in another creepy deviled egg recipe. Check out these “Spider Eggs: Avocado and Wasabi Deviled Eggs” from my friend Laura over at Family Spice!
Halloween Deviled Egg Q & A
Kept refrigerated, deviled eggs are fine to eat for up to four days. I wouldn’t push it much beyond that because eggs spoil fairly quickly.
No, please don’t. Whites don’t freeze well and will get rubbery.
More Halloween Recipes
For savory Halloween treats, consider my pimento cheese spread that I form with a brain mold and then decorate with pepper jelly “blood.”
For sweets, make my candy corn cupcakes, or maybe my Monster Cake is more your speed. Both are easily made using a boxed mix, but you can use homemade cake if you prefer.
Questions?
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Devilish Halloween Deviled Eggs
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Equipment
Ingredients
- 12 large eggs hard boiled and sliced in half, longwise
- ¼ cup mayonnaise
- 2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar pickle brine, or lemon juice
- 2 teaspoons Sriracha
- 1 ½ teaspoons prepared horseradish
- ½ teaspoon minced garlic
- ¼ teaspoon liquid smoke
- ¼ teaspoon kosher salt I used Morton’s
- ¼ teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper
To Decorate
- 48 slices black olives for “irises”
- Sriracha for “pupils”
Instructions
- Carefully scoop out the cooked yolks from the sliced eggs and place in a small bowl.
- Add the mayo, vinegar, Sriracha, horseradish, garlic, liquid smoke, salt and pepper and smash/stir well until smooth. Taste and adjust seasonings to suit your tastes
- Place the filling in a zip top bag and snip off about 1/4″ of one corner.
- Pipe the filling evenly into the hole in each white.
To Decorate
- Place 2 olive slices next to each other on top of the filling and press lightly
- Make a dot of Sriracha inside each slice to make the pupil.
- Refrigerate until ready to serve. Will keep in the fridge for 3-4 days.
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Notes
Variation
You can add some very finely minced crisp bacon to the mix if you’d like. I didn’t because I was already using liquid smoke, but horseradish and bacon is a great combination.Storing
Store deviled eggs in the fridge for up to four days. If you have left any out at room temperature for longer than an hour or two, I’d discard them (or eat them rather than put them back in the fridge).Nutrition
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I’ve never thought to add liquid smoke to deviled eggs. I’ve got to try that and the sriracha next time.
I considered adding bacon, but I thought they already had enough flavor going on, so Liquid Smoke was my bacon sub! 🙂 Hope you enjoy them!
Loving these eggs! So fun.
Thanks! I was only going to give each one 1 eye, but 2 fit, so there you go! 🙂
Ooo, I really like how these turned out. I’m giggling at the green hand too!
Thanks! And God Bless the makers of Lightroom! lol 🙂
I appreciate all your tips to ensure hard boiled egg perfection! I always end up peeling half the egg off when I peel the shell. Oops! Yours look perfect and I love the flavors you picked!
I have totally been there. You wouldn’t think that peeling eggs would be a big deal, but it can go horribly wrong! lol 🙂
I love deviled eggs and the addition of garlic, horseradish and siracha sounds amazing! Plus I love your egg boiling tips!
Thanks! Honestly, the ice thing happened by happy accident this time, but they looked so creepy they were perfect for Halloween eggs, plus they were so easy to peel!
All of your tips for perfect hard boiled eggs are amazing. It’s like getting my master’s in hard boiled eggs. Love your hand model!
I will pass that along to him, Karen! lol And thanks–peeling hard boiled eggs can be *so* frustrating. These rules have almost never let me down! 🙂