Halloween Quiche {With Olive Spiders!}

Kids love the spooky fun of Halloween. This Halloween quiche complete with spiders lets you celebrate the season while eating a healthy breakfast or brunch.

Halloween Quiche

Halloween's a big deal in our house, the kids and I (and hubby...) love it. It's a good time to plan ahead and have a party of some sort, often we'll have people over or do something, and that something always involves food. Always. There's so many awesome fun foods you can make for Halloween, and despite what the shops would have you believe, candy doesn't have to be the main event!

Although we eat Clean I'm not strict about it 100% of the time and celebration events are one of those times I let loose a little. That's not to say I throw caution to the wind totally, I still try and find good alternatives to foods if there is one but if the kids eat more Candy than they do all month then....okay, I'm gonna try and look the other way.

That said, I like to make sure they've eaten some Real food before then Candy thing starts. At least that way while they may gorge themselves on sugar there will be a limit if they've already got full tummies. And so I make healthier Halloween food.

Plus I had a distinctive dish that sort of felt Halloween-y and wanted to make a quiche which is exactly how this quiche happened!

I say healthier rather than healthy because I don't want the kids to feel like they're missing out on anything, but this quiche is really pretty healthy, it's just been Halloween-ed up with some olive spiders. There's no pie crusts on this quiche, if you prefer to make one this wholemeal crust is a good one!

It's amazing what adding a few spiders into a quiche can do - my littler kids were actually excited to eat spiders. Go figure :)

Ingredients

This Halloween quiche is a quiche Lorraine of sorts, with a few differences. I use cooked new potatoes, bacon and cheese for the flavors and although I use Olives to make the spiders, I didn't out any in the quiche itself in case you find yourself with olive haters!

I've made this as a slightly smaller quiche as I don't especially want spider quiche hanging around in the fridge, feel free to multiply the ingredients if you're cooking it for a crowd.

New Potatoes

You'll need to fully cook your new potatoes before adding them to the quiche. I scrub them clean, don't peel them and then cut them into discs before cooking them. I used to cook the whole new potato first and then slice them: Don't be like me, it took me about two years to realise discing them first lessened the cooking time. Yeah...I know!

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Bacon

I use 4 rashers of thick cut smoked bacon for this recipe. I cut it up into small pieces and fry it in a pan before it goes into the quiche.

You can cut the fat off it you like. I don't do this as I let it crisp up in the frying pan before hand and it adds loads of flavor, but you can do either. Either way it's gonna smell delicious as the smell wafts through your home!

Cheese

I've used a mature Cheddar cheese in this recipe. It's cheesy, kid friendly and works!

Making Olive Spiders

Olive spiders. Whoever came up with this idea is a genius.

It's always the stupidly simple things that impress me the most: The year I discovered these olive spiders was exciting. They went on many a Halloween food that year!

These are super simple to make, if a little fiddly. I use (clean!) tweezers for the legs so I can see what I'm doing.

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Olive Spiders In Steps

Make Ahead

Can you make this ahead of time? You certainly can! Make this quiche a day or two ahead to free up your time for dressing up on the Big day (see storage details below). Quiche is a great make ahead dish and sits happily in the fridge.

Storing Halloween Quiche

You can keep this quiche for up to 2 days covered, in the fridge. The quiche firms up the colder it gets and so you'll find it's really easy to slice up after it's been refrigerated.

I use a food wrap like this one to to keep it covered and it's fresh tasting and yummy! If you have a slice or two leftover the following day you can put it in the kids lunchboxes for lunch.

To reheat this quiche you can pop it into the microwave for a minute or two until it's piping hot and then serve it, or eat it cold. We actually prefer quiche cold as it's firmer but go with your families preferences.

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• Healthy cheese and onion quiche
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How To Make Halloween Quiche

Ingredients

• 3 Large Eggs Lightly whisked
• 3 Rashers bacon Smoked, cut into small pieces and fully cooked
• 3 New potatoes Scrubbed and cut into discs before cooking
• ½ Cup Heavy cream
• ¾ Cup Cheddar cheese Shredded
• Olive oil To grease the baking pan, you can use butter
• Salt and black pepper To season

Instructions

• Heat your oven to 210 c or 400c and let it heat up fully. Prepare your pie plate, baking tin or whatever you're going to cook your quiche in by oiling it with a little olive oil
• Fry your bacon and put to one side
• Boil your new potato discs until they're fully cooked, drain them and put them to one side to cool slightly
• In a large bowl, add the eggs and lightly whisk them
• Add the heavy cream to the eggs and combine together and then season well with the salt and pepper and then stir through the shredded Cheddar cheese
• In your baking tin pour half the quiche eggy mixture and then arrange the potato discs in an even layer. Sprinkle the bacon pieces on top of the potato and then pour the rest of the egg mixture on top
• Bake in your hot oven for 25 minutes until the quiche is slightly wobbly but mostly set. It will firm up as it cools
• Leave it in the dish until it's completely cold and then serve at room temperature

Halloween Quiche Recipe