How to Make Spooky Easy Spider Web Eggs

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When Halloween comes around, my family enjoys all the festivities that come along with the holiday itself. Dressing up, trick-or-treating, pumpkin patches, and even some spooky recipes! spooky spider dyed halloween eggs

My 4 and 2 year olds LOVE to help in the kitchen. I needed to get my act together and come up with some fun, spooky Halloween food projects that we could make together.

Now, I will be the first to admit that I do not handle myself well in the kitchen. My kids have a lot of cooking “fun” with their dad, because as a family, if we had to choose who’s meal to eat… it would be his!  No doubt!  But, this Momma wanted to have some fun with her kiddos too!

So, the recipe we chose to make? Spider Web Eggs!

First we gathered our ingredients:

Coloring the eggs:

1 dozen eggs
food coloring
vineger
water

Filling:

egg yolks
mayo
mustard
salt and pepper
medium sized black olives

Step 1: Boil the Eggs

boilingeggs-ccmbLike I said before, I’m not much of a cook. Yes, even when it comes to boiling eggs. So I went to one of my favorite ladies for advice.  The Pioneer Woman.  She explains how to boil eggs and peel them perfectly!

Step 2: Crack the Eggs

After boiling your eggs and setting them in the cold ice water, do NOT fully peel off the shell. Hit the side of the egg on the counter and lightly tap all around the egg so the shell stays ON the egg, but has cracks all over it. When dying the eggs with food coloring, the cracks allow the color to seep into the shell and dye colored cracks onto the egg whites for a cool effect.

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Here is a picture of one of our eggs with the cracks in it. I was working with my two littles… So I didn’t get a picture ahead of coloring the eggs. My kids rushed me through a lot of this recipe! haha!

Step 3: Dye the Eggs

After cracking the egg all over, drop it into a mixture of 1/2 cup hot water, 1 teaspoon of food coloring, and 1 teaspoon of vinegar. We noticed that the darker the color, the better it showed up on our egg whites.

Here is the part where my kiddos rushed me…

Step 4: Soak the Eggs

After dropping the eggs in the food coloring, NORMALLY, you leave them in for a good while so that they really soak in the color. My kids were NOT having this… So, my eggs stayed in the food coloring anywhere from 5-10 minutes. Our spider web eggs had small amounts of “spider webs” on them for this reason. If you leave your eggs in the food coloring a little bit longer, yours may have more of the webbing effect and even turn the white of the egg another color as well!

Step 5: Peel and Prepare the Eggs

spider web eggsAfter you dye and peel all the eggs, cut them in half and remove the yolk center. The yolk center will be used to make the yummy goodness in the center of your spiderweb egg!

To make the yolk mixture for the center, mix the egg yolk with some mayo and mustard until it is a lumpy but still creamy texture. (We added a little of each at a time so we didn’t over do it and turn the mixture into slop!) After we got it to the right consistency, we added salt and pepper to taste. I was having my 4 year old picky eater try these for the first time, so we didn’t put anything extra in them.  But there are SO many different ways to season the yolk center! hardboiledeggs-ccmb

Step 6: Decorate the Eggs

After putting the yolk mixture back into the egg whites, we added a little something extra for more spookiness!  I cut up  medium-sized, pitted black olives so they looked like spiders and added them to some of the eggs. (My husband isn’t a fan of black olives so we left some of them without!)

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This little helper decided she liked black olives!  We made sure not to use the licked ones on the tops of our eggs!

Here is the finished result of our Spider Web Eggs! This was a really fun recipe for my 2 and 4 year old kiddos. They didn’t loose interest and helped me the whole way through!

For photo purposes, I left some of the egg whites whole so we could show off our “spider webs.”  Also, it was a goal of mine to add some green food coloring to the yolks to add a little more spooky to them… but again, my kiddos did not want to wait so we hurried up and put the spiders on our webs!

This was a great family recipe that was so much fun to do together!  I would love to see some of your versions of spooky spider web eggs! ๐Ÿ™‚

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Allison
Allison married her husband, Aaron, 6 years ago. She is a stay at home mom to two minions... or, children. Chevy {4} and Avaleigh {2}. The family is just started their homeschooling adventure. They love to learn everyday! Allison enjoys time with her husband and kids. She prefers to do things as a family, and this leads to not so much Mommy Time. It isn't always easy, but everything is a learning opportunity that they can't miss out on! Allison has breastfed for 4 years straight between her two littles, co-sleeps, and has even cloth diapered part time. Her favorite stress reliever is being on the beach surf fishing with her family. Some of her favorites are: Jesus, reading, video games, watching Netflix (oh yes, cartoons on repeat also!), surf fishing, working on cars with her husband, DIY projects, and watching her kiddos learn new stuff for the first time. Some Not-So-Favorites: Cooking, Cleaning, and the housewife part of being a SAHM... Haha...