Creepy Radish Eyeballs Recipes

SCARY EYEBALLS

Steps:

• In a small bowl, cream peanut butter and butter until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla. Gradually beat in confectioners' sugar. Shape into 1-in. balls. Cover and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes. , In a microwave-safe bowl, melt candy coating and shortening; stir until smooth. Dip peanut butter balls into coating; allow excess to drip off. Place on waxed paper. Place M&M's, plain side up, on top. Let stand until set. Use red gel to create "bloodshot" eyes.

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.

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.

RADISH EYEBALLS

Steps:

• Using a paring knife, scrape off most of the red skin from the radish, leaving just enough red to give the radish a veined appearance. Rinse radishes.
• Using a very small melon baller, cut a small hole in the stem end of each radish. Insert an olive half, cut side out, into each hole; serve.

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.

CREEPY RADISH EYEBALLS

Steps:

• Wash radishes thoroughly - I use Fit spray.
• Cut olives in half, set aside.
• With a peeler, or citrus zester, scrape radish skins off making sure to leave some of the red skin in tact.
• Using a small knife, hollow out the center of radishes.
• Stuff with olive halves.
• Enjoy!