Cute Deviled Eggs Chicks For Easter Food

CUTE DEVILED EGGS CHICKS FOR EASTER

Steps:

• De-shell the eggs and cut the top 1/4 off each egg making sure to save the top (it's the head topper!). Then, cut a very small sliver of egg off from the bottom so that it's able to stand upright
• Note: I've found that it's much easier if you use the thick part of the egg for the topper and the thinner part for standing. Basically, this is the opposite of how they would sit in an egg carton. However, this makes it easier to scoop out the yolk without breaking the egg.
• Very carefully, use a small spoon (I use a baby spoon and paring knife) to scoop out the yolk from the egg being extra careful not to break the egg. Once all yolks have been scooped into a bowl add in the dry mustard, sundried tomatoes, yogurt, mayonnaise and salt and pepper. Mix well.
• Place the mixture in the fridge to chill.
• Prepare the carrots. Peel the carrots as usual.. Then, use the julienne peeler to strip the carrot into thin stems and cut them so they're roughly 3/4 inch long. You need 42 small pieces (36 for the feet and 6 for the noses).
• In each egg, poke in six carrots towards the bottom to mimic "feet" on chickens. Do this for all the eggs, gently placing them on your serving tray when finished. Fill a piping bag with the egg mixture and carefully pipe the mixture back into each of the eggs making sure it comes up about half an inch over the top. Careful not to fill the eggs too much so they explode.
• Take the tops of the eggs and carefully place them on top of the yolk mixture at an angle leaving room for a "face". Next, take the tweezers and place the peppercorns in for eyes and the triangle carrots in for the nose.
• That's it! Chill in the fridge until ready to serve.

DEVILED EGG CHICKS!

Steps:

• Place eggs in saucepan of cold water.
• Bring to a boil over med-high heat, STIRRING GENTLY AND CONSTANTLY, *this keeps the yolks in the center.
• Boil and gently stir for 2 minutes.
• Place on tight fitting lid and turn off heat.
• Let sit for 25 minutes.
• Carefully put eggs into bowl of ice water. Let sit for 5-10 minutes.
• Carefully peel eggs. *This is easy if eggs are older.
• Rinse with cold water, place on paper towel.
• Slice thin slice off bottom of each egg, *this will ensure they stand up later.
• With paring knife, cut top third of egg off in a zig-zag pattern. CAREFULLY remove tops.
• CAREFULLY scoop out yolks. *Take your time doing this, you may need to use your paring knife to break up yolks inside to get them out.
• Place yolks in mixing bowl, mash WELL with fork.
• Stir in rest of ingredients except olives and peppers.
• Overfill bottom egg white "shell" with filling, place top "shell" on carefully pressing very gently.
• Place on olive slices for "eyes", pressing them into the filling gently.
• Push 2 triangles of red pepper into filling to make beak.
• *****You may want to boil a few extra eggs for this, in case some of them don't peel well or get wrecked, it happens. Also so that you will have plenty of filling, too! If you boil extra eggs and add the yolks to the filling, just add a bit more of the ingredients to compensate, it'll be fine! ;).