Deviled egg salad for tea sandwiches gives you the most delicious egg tea sandwiches for your party or shower. All the elements of deviled eggs, delivered in fancy egg sandwiches. This scalable recipe is easy to make and uses simple ingredients in specific measurements to give perfect deviled egg tea sandwiches for 25, 50 people or more.
Put the shells eggs in a large bowl. Use a potato masher to break the eggs up into bits.
Add the remaining egg salad ingredients and combine.
Assemble the sandwiches
On a clean surface, lay out 6 slices bread. Top each with 1/4 cup egg salad. Spread the egg salad (avoiding the edges if cutting off the crusts), and top each with a slice of bread.
Repeat with the remaining bread and egg salad.
Cut the crusts off the bread (see Notes), if desired. Cut each sandwich into 2 either diagonally or horizontally down the middle.
Stack sandwiches on a platter. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until serving.
Notes
The serving size of 16 allows 1.5 individual (cut) sandwiches per person as a starting point. Then see the body of this blog post above for tips on how to adjust how many sandwiches (i.e. 1.5 vs 2 per person) to make.I am providing the gram quantities for mayonnaise, Dijon, and yellow mustard because it is easier to measure by weight when cooking in quantity. Note that these gram values will adjust when the Adjustable Servings functions are used.