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Eyeball cocktails

Eyeball cocktails
Eyeballs look great in Halloween cocktails. Here are a couple of popular ways to make them, if you lack a supply of the real thing: olives stuffed into peeled radishes, and cranberries in lychees.* The former looks like it's been freshly plucked from a shambling zombie, complete with optic nerve - the latter has a slightly shrivelled, half-rotted look to it. Both are particularly effective if served disguised in a smoky cocktail; the fog clears and the eyeball leers back at the drinker...

* Both of these ideas are all over the internet, and I found out about them when my color-changing martini appeared on various "Creepy Halloween Foods" lists (dabbled, neatorama, mentalfloss, etc). I concede that it does have a certain mad scientist vibe to it, but it's hardly gross or scary!
 
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Step 1Ingredients

Ingredients
For the zombie eyeball martini:
Gin
Vermouth
Radishes
Pimento-stuffed olives

For the bloody eyeball cocktail:
Vodka
Triple sec
Lime juice
Cranberry juice
Lychees, canned and peeled in a can
Cranberries (fresh or dried)

Dry ice is optional for both, but makes for a great creepy effect - and of course very effectively chills the drink.
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8 comments
Oct 21, 2011. 11:50 AMjjula1979 says:
Thanks for your instruction about the dry ice. I never have used it and since this will be our 5th annual party I want to do it up. I was wondering what the "precautions" were in using dry ice...This is great!!
Aug 14, 2011. 11:52 AMfuzz321 says:
looks gross but cool
Jan 3, 2011. 6:05 PMzaklopolis says:
weniiiiiisimo!!!!
Nov 1, 2010. 5:50 PMlancmaltby says:
I like this!!! Great idea!!!
Oct 31, 2010. 11:06 PMtbcross says:
Very very cool, the garnishes would even work well in a virgin bloody mary for kids. Great ible. I would offer one word of advice though, dry ice can do some major damage to the inside of your mouth and/or throat. So I'd say make sure none is left in the glass before turning up and gulping down.
Oct 31, 2010. 11:37 PMtbcross says:
Cool :) musta had a blank on the step 2. I'm that person who would plop a piece into my mouth. Of course I am a tremendously clumsy person!

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