Name: Devilish Halloween Deviled Eggs
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 8 h 25 min
Yield: 24
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 48 slices black olives, for "irises"; Sriracha, for "pupils"; 12 large eggs, hard boiled and sliced in half, longwise; 1/4 cup mayonnaise; 2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar, pickle brine, or lemon juice; 2 teaspoons Sriracha; 1 1/2 teaspoons prepared horseradish; 1/2 teaspoon minced garlic; 1/4 teaspoon liquid smoke; 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt, I used Morton's; 1/4 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper

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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.

This post and recipe was created for #HalloweenTreatsWeek. I was sent samples by some of the sponsor companies but as always opinions are 100% mine.

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.

How to Make Creepy Deviled Eggs

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:

Collage of ingredients to make Halloween deviled eggs.

hard boiled eggs
mayonnaise: if you don’t like mayonnaise, substitute with your favorite creamy salad dressing
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 used 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

Check out the texture on the outsides of the eggs, you guys. You really can’t see it once they’re cut and deviled, but it’s still cool. Here’s how you make that happen.

Collage showing how to fill and decorate devilish Halloween deviled eggs.

Allow the eggs to cool in the ice bath for about 45 minutes.
Take the eggs out of the ice bath and put them in another bowl.
Refrigerate them on a lower shelf in your fridge (where it’s coldest) overnight. (See “how to peel hard boiled eggs” below.)
1. What happens is that there is just a tiny bit of water that gets trapped between the shell and the hard cooked egg. By getting them super cold in the ice bath for 45 minutes or so and then letting them hang out in the coldest part of the fridge, that tiny bit of water will freeze without actually freezing the egg itself.
2. When you peel the egg, the lacy ice inside will have left creepy imprints in the whites. Super easy! And as a bonus, the eggs are very easy to peel since the ice makes space between the shell and the white. Very little sticking. Nice!
Slice eggs in half, lengthwise, and scoop out the yolks into a bowl. Mix up all the filling ingredients, put into a piping bag or a zip top bag and snip off a corner and pipe the filling evenly back into the waiting whites.
To make the eyes, place 2 sliced olives (black or green) side by side on top of the deviled egg filling, and squirt a wee dot of Sriracha inside for the pupil.

How to Peel Hard Boiled Eggs

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.

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.

PRO TIP: Start peeling the egg at the rounded end, because this is usually where there’s an air pocket.

It can also help to peel your eggs under running water, because the force of the water can help loosen the membrane.

Peeling the “icy eggs” is really pretty easy because the ice will have forced the whites away from the shell.

Of course, you’ll end up with that creepy textured outside, so you have to decide if that’s what you want or not.

Halloween deviled eggs on a small plate. — *These deviled eggs are perfectly cutely-creepy for Halloween. Spiked with horseradish, garlic, Sriracha, and just a touch of liquid smoke, they’re not your mama’s deviled eggs!*

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!

Other Halloween Treats Week Recipes

Melting Ghost Hot Chocolate from Big Bear’s Wife
Day of the Dead Mexican Chocolate Cupcakes from Pook’s Pantry
Devilish Halloween Deviled Eggs from Pastry Chef Online (you’re here!)
Candy Corn Layer Cake from ReciPEAs
Cauldron Cupcakes from Mrs. Happy Homemaker
Black Magic Skull Cakes from Sugar Dish Me
Frankenstein’s Monster Pudding Cups from I am a Honey Bee
Halloween Sprinkle Cookie Cake from Love and Confections
Chocolate Dipped Brownie Pops for Halloween from Southern From Scratch
Creepy Crawly Dirt Cup Pudding Parfaits from 4 Sons R Us
“Guts” Cinnamon Rolls from A Blender Mom
Creepy Eyeball Donuts from Daily Dish Recipes
Mummy Bites from Eat Move Make
Monkey Brain Bread from Pint Sized Baker
Halloween Cookie Pizza from Grumpy’s Honeybunch
Boo Berry Pie from Kudos Kitchen
Monster Donuts from The Baking Fairy
Boogeyman Brew from Who Needs A Cape?
Purple People Eater Thumbprints from The Spiffy Cookie
Hocus Pocus Halloween Decorated Pretzels from Lady Behind The Curtain
Black and Orange Cookies from Karen’s Kitchen Stories
Skeleton Popsicles from A Kitchen Hoor’s Adventures
Monster Mash Cake from Mildly Meandering
Graveyard Skillet Brownies from Strawberry Blondie Kitchen
Blood-Red Pomegranate Margarita from The Redhead Baker
Halloween Snoballs from The Beard and The Baker
Halloween Chocolate Cherry Hand Pies from House of Nash Eats
Halloween Dunkaroo Dip from Savory Experiments
Bloody Eyeball Cherry Cheesecake Cupcakes from Katie’s Cucina
Eye Scream Sundae from For the Love of Food

And here are some more of my own Halloween recipes.

Halloween Recipes from Pastry Chef Online -- CLONED

Other Halloween recipes from Pastry Chef Online

Candy Corn Cupcakes

Orange and yellow honey vanilla cupcakes topped with a crown of white ermine frosting and decorated with little ghosts and Halloween sprinkles.

Chocolate Halloween Cake

Why should kids have all the fun? They shouldn't! This spooky-elegant Halloween cake is worthy of an adult Halloween party.

Black and White Cookies for Halloween

Black and white cookies become orange, black and white cookies for Halloween.

Malted Milk Ball Spider Cookies

These cookies are not only really tasty, but they're super cute with their big old eyes!

Halloween Eclair Cake

All the elements of French eclairs but made in a 9x13" pan for easy serving and slicing. Decorate this guy with ganache for Halloween or for any occasion, or just drizzle it on. You're going to love this all-homemade version of eclair cake!

Black Rice Risotto with Roasted Butternut Squash

This black rice risotto with roasted butternut squash perfectly embodies the Halloween theme. It's creamy, delicious and full of phytonutrients too. And butter.

Harry Potter's Vegan Treacle Tart Ice Cream

This vegan treacle tart ice cream is creamy, delicious and easy to make. You can use store-bought date syrup or make your own. I've explained the process in the notes section. Also, feel free to sub in Lyle's Golden Syrup if you have some. You could even use a light molasses or even sorghum syrup in place of the date syrup.

A Halloween deviled egg on a black background peeking over a plastic spinal cord. — *Don’t look now, but your deviled egg is looking at you with its olive and Sriracha eyeballs!*

These Halloween deviled eggs are definitely not your everyday deviled eggs, which is fine with me.

I mean, I like that kind, but these are lovely and smoky with a kick from the horseradish.

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Devilish Halloween Deviled Eggs

Yield: 24 servings

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 15 minutes

fridge time: 8 hours

Total Time: 8 hours 25 minutes

These Halloween Deviled Eggs are easy to make, have a creepy, textured outside, and are also excellent. Make them for Halloween or for any occasion that calls for deviled eggs.