Christmas Tree Deviled Eggs

Christmas Tree Deviled Eggs! 🎄

Tall overstuffed deviled eggs made to look like christmas trees

Ingredients

    7 large eggs

    2 tablespoons butter

    2 cloves garlic sliced thin

    5 oz baby spinach

    1/3 cup mayo

    1 tablespoon mustard

    1/2 lemon (juice)

    1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika

    1/4 teaspoon hot sauce

    2 tablespoons dehydrated potato flakes

    1 red fresno chili pepper minced

    1 yellow bell pepper cut into small stars

    parmesan cheese

 

Instructions

Cook the eggs

 

    Bring water to a boil and add the eggs. Cook them at a hard boil for 9 and a half minutes. While they cook, fill up a bowl with ice and water. Scoop the eggs out of the boiling water and add them to the ice bath to cool.

    Peel the eggs and rinse them. Slice them in half the short way so that each half is round, opposite of the traditional deviled egg style. Try to cut it so you are cutting the yolk in half. It can be hard to judge where the yolk is but it is ok if you don't slice it exactly in half. Refer to photos above for help.

    Put the yolks in a bowl and set aside in the fridge until ready to use. Cut the bottom tips off the eggs so they can stand up straight, being careful not to cut too much or you will pierce the cavity. There are a few extra egg whites just in case. Set the whites aside in the fridge until ready to use.

Cook the spinach

 

    You can start this step as the eggs are cooking or cooling.

    Add the butter to a frying pan over medium heat. Add the garlic as the butter starts melting. Stir in the spinach and cook about 5 minutes until the spinach is wilted and moisture is evaporated from the pan. Remove from heat and allow to cool fully before using

 

Blend the filling

 

    In a blender add the spinach mixture, egg yolks, mayo, mustard, lemon juice, paprika, hot sauce, and potato flakes. Blend until smooth. Put the filling into the fridge to cool fully.

    Stir the mixture and if it doesn't seem thick enough to stand tall on it's own, add a little more potato flakes and stir to combine.

    Transfer to a piping bag with a star tip.

 

Finish the eggs

    Place the egg whites on a platter. This recipe makes 14 egg whites just in case you mess a few up. The filling is intended to only fill 10 – 12.

    Pipe the filling into the egg whites, bobbing the piping tip up and down slightly to form the tree shape and gradient. Go as tall as you feel confident being able to.

    Use two toothpicks to add 5 or 6 pieces of diced red pepper to each tree as decoration. Top with the star of yellow pepper

    Finally, make it "snow" parmesan cheese by grating it with a microplane grater right over the deviled egg trees. Serve