Best Grape Eyeballs Recipes

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CREAMY GRAPE SALAD



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Everyone raves when I bring this refreshing, creamy grape salad to potlucks. For a special finishing touch, sprinkle it with brown sugar and pecans. -Marge Elling, Jenison, Michigan

Provided by Taste of Home

Categories     Side Dishes

Time 20m

Yield 24 servings.

Number Of Ingredients 8

1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
1 cup sour cream
1/3 cup sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 pounds seedless red grapes
2 pounds seedless green grapes
3 tablespoons brown sugar
3 tablespoons chopped pecans

Steps:

  • In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese, sour cream, sugar and vanilla until blended. Add grapes and toss to coat. , Transfer to a serving bowl. Cover and refrigerate until serving. Sprinkle with brown sugar and pecans just before serving.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 131 calories, Fat 6g fat (3g saturated fat), Cholesterol 17mg cholesterol, Sodium 35mg sodium, Carbohydrate 19g carbohydrate (18g sugars, Fiber 1g fiber), Protein 2g protein.

FRUITY EYEBALL SALAD



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A light mint dressing nicely coats assorted fruity "eyeballs" in this recipe from our Test Kitchen. Just watch this salad disappear from the buffet table!

Provided by Taste of Home

Categories     Lunch

Time 25m

Yield 8 servings.

Number Of Ingredients 9

2 cups watermelon balls
2 cups cantaloupe balls
2 cups honeydew balls
1 cup seedless red grapes
1 cup seedless green grapes
DRESSING:
1/3 cup unsweetened apple juice
1 tablespoon honey
2 teaspoons minced fresh mint

Steps:

  • In a large bowl, combine the melon balls and grapes. In a small bowl, combine the dressing ingredients. Pour over fruit and toss to coat. Cover and refrigerate until chilled.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 85 calories, Fat 1g fat (0 saturated fat), Cholesterol 0 cholesterol, Sodium 10mg sodium, Carbohydrate 21g carbohydrate (20g sugars, Fiber 1g fiber), Protein 1g protein. Diabetic Exchanges

TRICK FOODS



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Provided by Duff Goldman

Categories     main-dish

Number Of Ingredients 11

1 pound spaghetti
1 jar thick and chunky salsa
Grapes (big plump grapes work best)
Olive oil, enough to cover grapes
1 block firm tofu
Olive oil (to touch)
2 eggs
1 can Vienna sausages
Pumpkin seeds, dried (the smaller and flatter they are, the better. You can use the seeds from your jack o' lantern!)
Geoff's piping gel (Duff doesn't suggest a substitute ingredient if you don't have access to piping gel. It looks like vaseline.)
A few dashes olive oil

Steps:

  • Bring a large pot of water to a boil over medium-high heat. Add the spaghetti and cook for 12 minutes.
  • Drain the pasta, and put it in a large bowl. Add the salsa and toss to coat the spaghetti. Let come to room temperature and then refrigerate until cold.
  • Cook's Note: Duff points out it doesn't look too bad, but when it's cold, it's going to feel like "blood and guts and snot and spit everywhere!"
  • Peel the grapes and put them in a bowl. Pour in enough olive oil to coat the grapes and toss. Yuck!
  • Cook's Note: Tips for peeling a grape: Grapes have a "natural hole." Start at the hole and peel off 1 side. Go all the way around and try to remove the peel in 4 pieces. If you're lucky, you can get it in 3 pieces. The reason to peel the grapes is to make the texture smooth and blemishless. This will make them feel more gross when they're covered in oil. With the skin off, grapes feel just like the surface of your eyeball.
  • Drain the water from the tofu and put it into a bowl. Squeeze the tofu between your fingers to get it all mushy. Pour a little olive oil on top "for that extra ick effect." Crack 2 eggs on top of the icky tofu mess. Squeeze your fingers through it to mix the eggs and tofu together.
  • Now it should totally gross people out!
  • Cut the pumpkin seeds in half (Duff doesn't say which way, but he does say this is dangerous). MAKE SURE MOM OR DAD CUTS THE PUMPKIN SEEDS! THIS IS NOT A STEP FOR KIDS. Make a small slit at 1 end of each of the Vienna sausages. Stick a pumpkin seed into each slit so that it will feel like a fingernail.
  • Arrange the severed fingers in a bowl. Spoon some slimy, gooey piping gel over the fingers. Pour on a healthy dash of olive oil. Very gently, use your fingers to coat the sausages in the oil and the gel so it feels like they're floating in "gooey, congealed blood."
  • This recipe was provided by professional chefs and has been scaled down from a bulk recipe provided by a restaurant. The Food Network Kitchens chefs have not tested this recipe, in the proportions indicated, and therefore, we cannot make any representation as to the results.

RADISH EYEBALLS



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Turn everyday radishes into eerie eyeballs for Halloween. Also try:Grape Eyeballs, Lychee and Blueberry or Cranberry Eyeballs

Provided by Martha Stewart

Categories     Holiday Planning & Ideas     Halloween     Halloween Recipes

Yield Makes 20

Number Of Ingredients 2

20 radishes, cleaned and trimmed
10 small pimento-stuffed olives, halved crosswise

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.

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