Creepy Radish Eyeballs Recipes

CREEPY HALLOWEEN EYEBALLS

Steps:

• Spoon a little bit of strawberry jam into the hole of each lychee. Place a blueberry in the hole and secure blueberry with a toothpick.

HALLOWEEN HORS D'OEUVRES EYEBALLS

Steps:

• Peel the hard-boiled eggs and slice each egg in half. Scoop out the yolks and fill the egg cavities with the cream cheese.
• Press a stuffed olive, pimento side upwards, into the centre of each cream cheese-filled cavity.
• Dip the tip of a toothpick in red food colouring and trace lines like broken blood vessels on the cream cheese.
• Peel the radishes leaving thin steaks of red skin on each radish to represent broken blood vessels.
• Using the tip of a vegetable peeler or a small, sharp knife carefully scoop out an olive-sized hole in each radish.
• Stuff each radish with a stuffed olive, pimento side facing out.
• Arrange the egg eyeballs and radish eyeballs in pairs on 6 serving plates and serve.

EYEBALL MARTINI

Steps:

• To make each radish eyeball, peel radish, leaving streaks of red skin for "blood vessel" effect. Cut off one tip of radish about 1/4-inch deep. Using small melon baller or paring knife, scoop out small hole from sliced tip side; place olive half in center. Place in martini glass.
• To make each grape eyeball, carefully peel back skin of grape from one edge. Using small melon baller or paring knife, cut small hole in center of exposed flesh. Place small cranberry or blueberry in hole. Skewer grapes onto toothpick; place in martini glass.
• To make each olive eyeball, place baby carrot in pitted hole of olive. Cut off carrot flush with end of olive. Skewer olives onto toothpick; place in martini glass.
• To make cocktail, place several ice cubes in cocktail shaker or mixing glass. Add gin and vermouth. Cover; shake (or stir) 30 seconds. Strain into martini glass and serve.