Recipe shared by Rachael, Ancesister @ Ancestreats.
When my little boys were in preschool, I was tapped to make their classes a Halloween recipe booklet to share with the other families. We moms shared the recipe prep and threw the kids a silly party with creepy imaginative treats many of you have come to love at Halloween parties. There was the kitty litter surprise (baked cake mix crumbled up with hidden almond roca candy), the witch finger cookies, boogers on a stick (pretzels dipped in melted cheese), yummy mummies (baked hot dogs wrapped in shredded crescent roll dough) and today’s creepy food feature: Baked Monster Eyeballs. Sounds gross, right? Well really these are just mini frito pies. There is always someone out there with a knack for decorating things realistically, and over the top, and this is one where you might really get into squeezing the ketchup over the pies for added gruesome effect. BOO!
Ingredients
Makes 32 pieces
- 1 lb ground beef
- 2 Tb taco seasoning
- 2 Tb cold water
- 1/2 cup shredded Mexican cheese blend
- 1 cup crushed up tortilla chips
- 1 cup sour cream
- 16 black pitted olives halved on their middles
- Taco sauce or ketchup
Directions
Combine the ground beef, taco seasoning, and water. Press an amount into the cups of a mini muffin tin so it goes halfway up each cup in the pan. Into each cup sprinkle a scant amount of cheese and then the crushed chips, leaving a cm of space for a dollop of the sour cream. As you add each ingredient, gently press the layers down to hold the mixture into the form. Top each cup with an olive half, cut side up. Press it into the sour cream and then fill up the round olive cavity with taco sauce. Bake at 375 degrees (400 at high alt) for 10 minutes. Remove from oven and cool off for 5 minutes to let the contents set. Remove the eyeballs from the muffin tins with the aid of a small butter knife run round the individual cups, and place the eyeballs on a platter. Ideally, they are served hot, but little fingers can’t pick up hot things; a few minutes of cooling will actually make them easier to handle. You can add extra flourish of blood-shottiness by squeezing thin lines of ketchup over the whites of the eyes. Know your audience and how much gross out they can handle.
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