2 Startling Halloween Fresh Mozzarella Eyeball Appetizers

Are you ‘looking’ for an eye-opening appetizer experience? All eyes are on these startling Halloween fresh mozzarella eyeball appetizers using simple ingredients and gaining big gazing results!

Eyeball appetizers for Halloween are big bulging edible eyes that make a great party treat and as a bonus these Halloween eyeballs are Keto-friendly!

You are about to come eye-to-eye with Easy Halloween recipes using fresh mozzarella cheese to create spooky to funny-looking eyeballs and eyes, depending on how you style the food art eyeballs.

These quick-made edible eyeballs will be a fang-tastic addition to any food table!

The edible fresh mozzarella Halloween eyes I’ve created include an eye orbit, a sclera (the white portion of the eye), as well as the iris and the pupil, so it will be all eyes on you once you’ve created this party appetizer for October!

Why You’ll Love Eyeball Appetizers For Halloween

Halloween eyeballs are a smart meatless option for an appetizer, and it is quite delicious using minimalistic ingredients.

• eyeball appetizers are a no-cook prep food so they are easy to make
• the cheese-based appetizers that look like eyes are meatless
• there are different options for fresh mozzarella so you can make the edible Halloween eyeballs bigger or smaller
• Halloween eyeball ingredients can be prepped ahead of time
• The ingredients are super easy to find
• assembling the eyeballs for Halloween takes about 30 seconds per fresh mozzarella eyeball
• it’s a nut-free, gluten-free, shellfish-free snack

What Kitchen Essentials Are Needed To Make Eyeball Appetizers For Halloween?

• A serrated knife to cut the fresh mozzarella cheese
• Small Colander – so you can easily rinse fresh basil and drain the olives
• Paper towel – to pat dry the basil leaves
• Serving platter – a fun platter to display your appetizing Halloween fresh mozzarella eyes on
• Halloween Decor – optional but great for adding around the edible eyeballs for Halloween
• A cutting board will be used to slice the fresh mozzarella

Ingredients For Your Fresh Mozzarella Eyeball Appetizers

These are the ingredients you’ll use to construct the eyes/eyeballs for Halloween and what each is used for!

• Fresh mozzarella balls are the sclera of the eye (the white portion)
• Green Spanish olives – these are the iris and pupil portion of the DIY edible eyes for Halloween
• Basil leaves – are the cradles where each of the sclera (fresh mozzarella slices)

How to assemble Halloween Fresh Mozzarella Eyeball Appetizers

Here is how to put your eyeballs together, it’s fast and easy and I absolutely advise sampling along the way because there is nothing like a fresh mozzarella ball, from pearl-sized to bocconcini, they are awesome!

Step 1: Basil Leaf Prep

First, rinse the basil leaves that you anticipate using (rinse more than you need in case of rips!), these are the orbit, and the other ingredients all rest atop the fresh basil.

Second, pat each leaf of basil dry and then place the leaf upside down which means the normal underside of the leave will be face up to form a ‘cradle-like’ orbit (socket) for the eye, placing the basil leaves side by side to make a set of eyeballs.

Step 2: Prepping The Edible Halloween Eye Portions With Fresh Mozzarella

Rinse out the colander from washing the basil and then place a few of the fresh mozzarella in it to briefly drain, do not rinse.

Next, place the balls of fresh Moz on a cutting board, and slice them into a few pieces (2-3) (depending on the size you chose to work with this step might not be needed – see notes in the recipe card below)

Again, this is the white eyeball area that you working with right now and it should have some depth to it to look realistic.

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Step 3: Prep The Olives For the Iris and Pupil Of The Edible Eyeballs

Drain your olives but do not rinse them.

Pat the olive dry a bit,

Slice each olive in half.

Step 4: Assemble The Fresh Mozzarella Eyes and Eyeballs

The basil leaf is already upside down and ready to cradle a sliced piece of fresh mozzarella to create the white of the Halloween eye, so place one freshly sliced mozzarella piece on each of the basil leaves, making sure to place the cheese towards what would be the inner corner of the eye to make it as realistic as possible.

Invert the basil to make the other Halloween cheese eyeball because you need a left and a right or you can just do a tray of all right Halloween eyes or all left eyeballs.

Set an olive atop the fresh mozzarella and you are done!

Step back and look at it, to see if it looks right.

If you have to adjust the eye portion (iris and pupil olive) you can slice it thinner on the bottom portion, or you can cut a divot into the cheese to set it into it more, you can see I did that on one of the photos.

Step 5 Dominate The Halloween Tablescape With Halloween Cheese Eyeballs

Decorate your table with crows, spiders, ghosts, netting, fun tablecloths, napkins, candelabras, and the like, and don’t forget to add some smaller Halloween decor props to the eye appetizers tray!

What Can I Substitute In The Recipe?

• I used small ‘egg-sized’ balls of fresh mozzarella referred to as Bocconcini but you can use also use Ciliegene mozzarella balls these are the size of cherry tomatoes and would not require slicing
• instead of Spanish Manzanilla olives, you could use a simple black olive sliced or a tiny speck of red pepper, etc.
• you can use hard crusty pieces of bread instead of basil
• use buttercrunch lettuce instead of basil but you will need to trim it to a relevant size

Halloween cheese eyeballs are sure to become one of your favorite recipes for Halloween because they are super easy to create and really taste good!

Do Not Store or Reheat Halloween Fresh Mozzarella Eyeball Appetizers.

The eyeball appetizers for Halloween cheese eyeballs need to be made right before the party.

• This appetizer is not going to be kept in the fridge, nor will it be frozen as that will change the consistency of the fresh mozzarella and it would shrivel the fresh basil.
• There is nothing to reheat when it comes to leftovers of eyeball appetizers for Halloween, this is a no-cook appetizer.
• Basil does not cooperate with being refrigerated it will wilt and shrivel or worse yet it will turn black!
• You will want to make this slightly ahead of your party and leave it at room temperature as you want to keep the cheese at a safe holding temperature so you won’t want to leave this out for more than 6 hours in a cooler area, of course, you could use an ice tray below, the party tray to keep it cooler.

Make Sure To Come Back And Share How Your Halloween Fresh Mozzarella Eyeball Appetizers Turned Out

I love to see creative variations of what you did with the recipes on my website, so share your tips and tricks, and I might even publish them in an updated recipe version crediting you of course!

Happy Halloween and enjoy those Halloween Fresh Mozzarella Eyeball Appetizers, that will be EYEING you up!

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