Spooky Eyeballs Food

SPOOKY HALLOWEEN EYEBALLS

Steps:

• Beat the peanut butter and butter with an electric mixer in a large bowl until smooth. Beat in the sugar and vanilla. Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Roll chilled dough into small, eyeball-sized balls and place on 2 baking sheets lined with wax paper. Refrigerate for another 30 minutes.
• Melt the white chocolate and shortening in a microwave-safe glass or ceramic bowl in 30-second intervals, stirring after each melting, for 1 to 3 minutes (depending on your microwave). Do not overheat or chocolate will scorch. Dip each eyeball into the white chocolate and transfer to the waxed paper until the chocolate has set. You can chill them in the refrigerator.
• Stir a few drops of blue food coloring into the remaining melted white chocolate. Make a round "iris" on the top of the cooled eyeball and press a mini chocolate chip in the center for a "pupil." For an extra spooky bloodshot eyeballs take a toothpick dipped in red food coloring and make squiggly lines on the eye.

SPOOKY HALLOWEEN EYES

Steps:

• Place each egg, cut-side down, into a muffin cup paper liner.
• Spoon mayonnaise into a plastic resealable bag; snip 1 of the bottom corners of the bag. Pipe mayonnaise through the opening around the base of each egg half.
• Portion red food coloring into a small bowl, blue food coloring into a second small bowl, and black food coloring into a third small bowl. Dip a clean and sterile small-tip paintbrush into the red food coloring and paint small lines onto each egg to represent 'veins', making sure to get a little of the red food coloring into the mayonnaise.
• Rinse brush and make a blue circle on the top middle of each egg to represent the 'iris'. Rinse brush and paint a black ring around the iris and put a dot of black in the middle of the iris for the 'pupil'.

HALLOWEEN SPOOKY EYEBALLS

Steps:

• 1. In a large microwave safe mixing bowl, combine the butter and peanut butter. Melt mixture in the microwave for about 2 minutes until butter and peanut butter is melted; stir the mixture a few times during the microwaving process to combine ingredients.
• 2. Remove the bowl from the microwave and stir in the powdered sugar. You may need to use your hands to thoroughly incorporate it.
• 3. Roll the mixture into small 1-inch balls while mixture is still warm. If mixture becomes too crumbly, put the bowl back into the microwave and warm it up some more.
• 4. Place balls on 2 cookie sheets lined with wax paper. Refrigerate or freeze for about 30 minutes. Meanwhile....
• 5. Melt the vanilla almond bark in a double boiler.
• 6. Bring out one cookie sheet of peanut butter balls at a time. Using a tooth pick, dip peanut butter ball in the coating and then gently tap the ball on the side of the pan to remove excess coating. Then Use a small knife to try and scrape a little of the excess coating off the bottom to help prevent a big glob on the bottom. Place ball back on cookie sheet and twist the toothpick gently to remove it.
• 7. Gently press an M&M on top of the toothpick hole while coating is still warm.
• 8. Using a tooth pick, dip it into red coloring and add squiggly lines into coating to make blood shot eyes. (you can use some prepared red icing out of a tube, if you wish)
• 9. Melt the chocolate chips in a small microwave safe bowl. Using a toothpick, dot the centers of each M&M. Chill candy on a cookie sheet until firm. Store in an air tight container.

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.

SPOOKY EYEBALL TACOS (JOHNNY #5 TACOS)

Steps:

• MIX meat and seasoning mix. Shape half of the mixture into 24 (1-inch) balls; place in 15x10x1-inch baking pan and bake at 350 F for 15 to 20 minutes or until cooked through.
• Brown the remaining seasoned ground beef and add salsa.
• Fill each taco shell with a thin layer of ground beef, sour cream, lettuce, and tomatoes.
• Position 2 meatballs inside the taco shell and add a dollop of sour cream to each. Garnish with olives to make "eyeballs." Spread the cheese out along to the top for stringy hair.

SPOOKY EYEBALLS

Steps:

• Cut the eggs in half and scoop out the yolks.
• In a bowl mash the yolks with the cream cheese.
• Fill the eggs with the cream cheese mixture and push an olive into the middle of each one.
• Dip a wooden toothpick into the foodcolouring and draw bloodshot veins onto the cheese mixture, running from the olive to the outside.

SPOOKY EDIBLE EYES

Steps:

• Combine one package of gelatin with the milk and bloom for five minutes.
• In a small saucepan, combine half a cup of water with the sugar and coconut extract and bring to a boil. Combine with the gelatin mixture and stir until all solids dissolve. Lubricate molds with oil and pour in gelatin mixture. Refrigerate for one hour. Gently tap and shake to unmold.
• For the iris, combine remaining gelatin with 1/4 cup of water and bloom for five minutes. In a small saucepan, bring the remaining water to a boil. Remove and gently stir into gelatin mixture until solids dissolve. Create the colors of your choice using the food coloring kit. Using an eyedropper, fill the indentation of the eyeballs with the colored gelatin. It will set within moments of contact with the cold gelatin.
• In a small ramekin, mix one drop of each color to create black for the pupil. Dip a toothpick into the black and paint the center of the iris. To achieve bloodshot eyes, use red food coloring and brush with a cotton swab around the base of each eyeball.

HALLOWEEN EYEBALL RECIPE: GIANT EDIBLE COW EYEBALLS

Steps:

• Place a pea-sized amount of each red, green, and blue food coloring in the bottom of a small, heat-safe mixing bowl. Set aside.
• Pour all the coconut milk and water in a medium saucepan (you want it to equal 4 cups, total). Add 2 tsp of agar agar and whisk until it is all incorporated into the coconut milk.
• Place over medium-high heat and bring to a gentle boil, reducing heat once it boils to bring it to a simmer.
• Add the 1/2 cup sugar and stir until all the sugar is dissolved. At this point, give the mixture a little taste and see if it is sweet enough for you. If not, add sugar by the tbsp until it is sweet enough, stir until dissolved, then remove from heat.
• Remove 1/4 + 1/8 cup of the agar agar mixture and place into the bowl with the food coloring. Whisk until the mixture is black and place 1 tbsp each into the bottom of the six spherical molds (put them all on a cookie sheet for easy moving). Put all molds into the refrigerator to cool.
• After about 15-30 minutes, check and see if the black mixture has set. If it has, begin adding the rest of the white agar agar/coconut mixture on top of the black mixture evenly across the rest of the six molds, leaving a small amount of space at the top. (Note that if the mixture in the pan has started to solidify, you can reheat to make liquid again).
• Once all the molds have been filled, place the lids carefully on each mold and press down gently. Put back in the fridge.
• Allow to chill several hours until eyeballs are fully set. Repeat with the remaining mixture for two more eyeballs if desired. Remove and serve as desired.

SPOOKY EYEBALL TACOS

Steps:

• PREHEAT oven at 350°F
• MIX meat and seasoning mix.
• SHAPE into 36 (1-inch) balls; place in 15x10x1-inch baking pan.
• BAKE for 15 to 20 minutes or until cooked through.
• FILL each taco shell with 1 meatball; DRIZZLE with salsa.
• TOP with 2 meatballs dipped in sour cream.
• GARNISH with olives to make "eyeballs."
• SUBSTITUTES:.
• Substitute leaner cuts of ground beef, such as ground round or ground sirloin, for ground beef and reduced fat sour cream for sour cream.
• Substitute taco sauce for salsa.

EYEBALL MEATBALLS: HALLOWEEN PARTY FOOD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350*
• Using a wooden spoon or your hands in a large bowl mix together beef, heavy cream, beaten egg, salt, oregano and panko bread crumbs.
• Do not pack the meat too tightly, you want to use a lighter touch so that the meatball does not get too compacted allowing for a lighter moist (versus heavy, hard) final product meatball.
• Once combined, sprinkle gouda cheese cubes over the top and mix to blend throughout the mixture.
• Form the meat into balls about the size of a golf ball.
• Cut the tops off of your olives. (See notes.) Press the olive point into the meatball to resemble eyes and place on a plate that will fit into the fridge for chilling. Repeat until all have "eyes"
• Chill for a minimum of 15 minutes to set the shape.
• If you are making ahead to use the next day or later in the day, you can make the meatballs to here. The meatballs in the raw state will need to be covered with plastic or foil if you are waiting longer than an hour to bake them.
• Place Meatballs onto a broiling pan (alternatively use a cookie rack over the top of a baking sheet.) You want the meatball fats to be able to fall to the bottom pan.
• The meatballs should be spaced 2" apart.
• Bake for 15-20 minutes, turning the pan from front to back at the 10 minute mark to allow for even cooking.
• Allow meatballs to cool for 5-10 mins.
• While meatballs are cooling place ketchup in a sealed zip lock back. Put the ketchup in one corner of the bottom of the bag and press all of the air out and seal. Cut a small hole in the end where the ketchup is ... then pipe bloodshot eyes around the eye center of the meatball. Serve.

ZOMBIE EYES (HALLOWEEN MEATBALLS)

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Cook spaghetti in the boiling water, stirring occasionally, until tender yet firm to the bite, about 12 minutes. Drain and set aside.
• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
• Whisk Parmesan cheese, bread crumbs, egg, garlic, parley, basil, and oregano together in a large mixing bowl. Fold in ground beef and mix with your hands until blended. Form 16 equal-sized meatballs using a cookie scoop.
• Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Brown meatballs for 3 minutes on each side. Transfer cooked meatballs to a baking sheet using tongs.
• Bake browned meatballs in the oven for 8 minutes.
• While meatballs bake, use a plastic straw to punch a hole through each olive half to create a circular 'pupil.' Use the same straw to punch a hole through the center of each string cheese slice. Insert the round olive piece inside the hole in the string cheese slice to create 'eyes.'
• Remove meatballs from oven and let cool until safe to handle.
• Assemble zombie eyes by twirling a few strands of cooked spaghetti around each of 16 forks. Spear a meatball onto each fork and arrange forks on a serving platter. Spoon a dot of spaghetti sauce onto each meatball where you want to place the 'eyes.' Apply the olive-cheese 'eye' over the sauce. Spoon remaining spaghetti sauce over the twirled spaghetti on the forks.

MEATBALL EYEBALLS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• In a large mixing bowl, combine 1/4 cup parsley, 1/4 cup Italian-style breadcrumbs, 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese, and 1/4 cup pesto and the 1 lb. of ground meat.
• Mix ingredients thoroughly.
• Add fresh basil leaves and red pepper flakes to 3 cups marinara sauce. Stir.
• Cover the bottom of a baking pan with the marinara.
• Using your hands, roll 1 lb ground meat into meatballs.
• Using your thumb, make an indentation in the center of each meatball and place an olive in the center, forming an eyeball shape. Place olive side up in the marinara-coated pan.
• Cover and bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.

SPOOKY EYEBALLS

Steps:

• You will be molding the 'eyeballs' in ice cube trays, using the method of making a jello mold, and also the method for adding fruit.
• Pour the jello powder into a bowl, and mix with the boiling water until it dissolves, and then add the cold water.
• Pour into ice cube trays, and let set in refrigerator for 1 hour until it slightly thickens, remove from fridge, and press a blueberry into each one, and place back in fridge until firm.
• I placed them in an old glass apothecary jar, and they looked very cool.