Pumpkin (Shaped!) Deviled Eggs

Put a seasonal twist on everyone's favorite deviled eggs! Embellished with green onion stems and curls along with orange-tinted filling, Pumpkin-Shaped Deviled Eggs make a fun and adorable addition to any fall get-together. Whip up a platter for Halloween, Thanksgiving, gameday tailgating, or your next fall potluck.

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Want to add a fun fall seasonal twist to everyone's favorite deviled eggs? Dress them up like pumpkins!

Pumpkin-Shaped Deviled Eggs are simply our classic Southern deviled eggs embellished to look like pumpkins. And they're adorable, don't you think? I dare anyone to try not to smile when they see a platter of these little cuties! It's hard to do, I say ... definitely hard to do.

These little cuties are pretty easy to put together. -- Just tint the deviled egg filling orange and use green onions for stems and curls to create this fun fall-inspired look.

Pumpkin Deviled Eggs bring an adorable seasonal twist to this classic favorite dish.

The trick to creating the curls is soaking thin strips of green onions in ice water for about 5 minutes. The ice water softens the green onion and causes it to curl. A little coaxing with your fingers then creates cute curly-cues that mimic pumpkin vines and tendrils in the field. -- And turns up the adorableness factor of these pumpkiny deviled eggs, for sure.

Pumpkin Deviled Eggs are a perfect addition to any Halloween, Thanksgiving, gameday tailgating, or potluck fall get-together. They bring an adorable seasonal twist to this classic favorite dish, and are sure to bring on the smiles!

Pumpkin-Shaped Deviled Eggs Ingredients:

Pumpkin-Shaped Deviled Eggs are simply basic deviled eggs embellished a bit to look like pumpkins.

To make the deviled eggs themselves, you'll need:

• Hard boiled eggs
• Mayonnaise
• Prepared yellow mustard
• Sweet pickle relish
• Salt & pepper
• Paprika for garnish

To make the deviled eggs look like pumpkins, you'll need:

• Red & yellow food coloring - Just a tiny smidge of red and yellow food coloring tints the deviled egg filling a light orange color. 

• Green onions or scallions - Thin strips of green onion tops (or scallions) are used to create the pumpkin stems and curls.

Just a tiny smidge of red and yellow food coloring tints the deviled egg filling a light orange color.

How to Make Pumpkin-Shaped Deviled Eggs:

It's not too tough to pull off a platter of deviled eggs that look like pumpkins. Making the deviled eggs themselves is just the same as making "regular" deviled eggs (see our post "How to Make Deviled Eggs" if you'd like a step-by-step guide.) Then it's just a matter of adding on the pumpkin embellishments. -- Adding the curls can be a little tedious, to be honest, but it's not difficult.

To get started, first whip up the filling and tint it orange. To get it orange, use just a teeny tiny bit of red and yellow food coloring -- not even a full drop of each.

To control getting only a tiny bit of food coloring, use wooden toothpicks to add the coloring. 

Dip the end of a wooden toothpick into red food coloring and then drag it along the surface of the deviled egg filling, transferring just a small amount of color to the filling. Use a separate toothpick to repeat the process with yellow food coloring. After stirring the filling, repeat with each color until your desired orange hue is achieved, using a ratio of 3 red to every 1 yellow (ie: do 3 red dips, then do 1 yellow dip to make orange).

Then fill the egg white halves with the orange-tinted filling. Now when it comes to filling the deviled eggs, it's super easy with a disposable piping bag.  Seriously, it makes it so quick!

Just fit a disposable piping bag with an extra large round piping tip, fill the bag with the deviled egg filling, and squeeze a little filling into each egg white half. -- You'll be done filling in no time.

Don't have disposable piping bags on hand?  

No problem.  Cut the bottom corner of a zip-top plastic baggie, fill the baggie with the yolk mixture, seal the baggie, and pipe through the cut corner.  Super easy, too.

Once the eggs are filled, drag a skewer or wooden pick through the filling to create pumpkin-like ridges.

To create the pumpkin stems and curls, use green onion tops or scallions.

For the curls, cut very thin strips from the green parts of the green onions.

Place the strips in a small bowl of ice water to make them curl. They'll need to stand in the ice water for about 5 minutes.

While the green onion strips soak in ice water, cut small pieces of green onion to use as stems. Place a piece at the longer end of each deviled egg to make a stem.

Then remove the green onion strips from the ice water, pat dry with a paper towel, and insert them at the base of the stems as curls. You can give each deviled egg one or two curls, or mix it up with some of each.

If the green onion strips aren't curly enough when you take them out of the ice water, gently curl them with your fingers to coax and enhance their curls.

Finally, sprinkle the filling with just a small bit of paprika to finish off the deviled eggs.

Once decorated with their green onion curls, serve these deviled eggs pretty immediately or within a couple of hours of decorating, at max. The green onion curls will wilt if covered and stored in the refrigerator for much longer than that. (Though rest assured, these little cuties are still cute, even when their curls are wilted.)

Enjoy!

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Author: Tracey | The Kitchen is My Playground

Pumpkin (Shaped!) Deviled Eggs

Put a seasonal twist on everyone's favorite deviled eggs! Embellished with green onion stems and curls along with orange-tinted filling, Pumpkin-Shaped Deviled Eggs make a fun and adorable addition to any fall get-together. Whip up a platter for Halloween, Thanksgiving, gameday tailgating, or your next fall potluck.

Prep time: 30 MinTotal time: 30 Min

Ingredients

• 6 hard boiled eggs
• 3 T. mayonnaise
• 1/2 tsp. prepared yellow mustard
• 1 1/2 T. juice from a jar of sweet pickle relish
• pinch salt & pepper
• red & yellow food coloring (optional)
• 3 or 4 green onions or scallions (green parts only)
• paprika

Instructions

Prepare the Deviled Eggs:

1. Cut hard boiled eggs in half lengthwise. Remove yolks and place in a small mixing bowl. Place egg whites on a platter or egg plate.
2. Mash yolks with a fork until they resemble a sandy texture. Add mayonnaise, mustard, relish juice, salt, and pepper; stir until well combined and smooth.
3. If desired, add yellow and red food coloring to create orange filling: Dip the end of a wooden toothpick into red food coloring and then drag it along the surface of the deviled egg filling, transferring just a small amount of color to the filling. Use a separate toothpick to repeat the process with yellow food coloring. Repeat until desired color is achieved, using a ratio of 3 red to every 1 yellow (eg: do 3 red dips, then do 1 yellow to make orange).
4. Place yolk mixture in a disposable piping bag with an extra large round piping tip. Pipe yolk mixture into the cavity of each egg white.

Garnish to Create Pumpkin Shapes:

1. Drag a skewer or wooden pick through the deviled egg filling to create pumpkin-like ridges.
2. Cut very thin strips from the green parts of the green onions. Place in a small bowl of ice water to curl; allow to stand in the ice water for about 5 minutes.
3. Cut small pieces of green onion to use as stems.
4. Place a small green onion piece at the longer end of the deviled eggs as stems; remove green onion strips from ice water, pat dry with a paper towel, and insert at the base of the stems as curls.
5. Sprinkle filling with a small bit of paprika, trying to avoid sprinkling on the white part of the eggs.
6. Serve immediately.

TRACEY'S NOTES:

1. If green onion strips are not curled enough when you take them out of the ice water, gently curl them with your fingers to enhance their curls.
2. Once decorated with green onion curls, serve these deviled eggs immediately or within a couple of hours at max. The green onion curls will wilt if covered and stored in the refrigerator much longer than that.
3. To make filling the eggs super easy, use a disposable piping bag fitted with an extra large round piping tip. If you don't have a piping bag on hand, use a zip-top plastic baggie. Cut off the bottom corner of a zip-top plastic baggie, fill the baggie with yolk mixture, seal, and pipe through the cut corner.

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