The Flayed Skin Cheeseball

Step 3 Prepare the eyes

There are several ways to do the eyeballs. 

Early years I simply added sliced green olives with pimento (see the 3rd picture on the blue plate). 

Now I use the technique from the Evil Mad Scientists for preparing the eyeball look, which I think looks even better.

You'll need 2 colors of olive, one for the iris, one for the pupil.
Basically, slice off the side of your "iris" color olive, to make a circular iris. 
Then take your straw and punch a hole in the center of the iris.

(Or, if using a pitless olive, you can slice it in half so that you have one end with the pit hole and one end without.  On the end without the hole, punch a new hole with your straw.  This will make a more protruding eye.)


Slice off the side of your pupil color olive.  Punch a hole in that piece with your straw.  Then insert that circle (pupil) into your iris!

Next time, I'm planning to incorporate the white part of the eye as well, giving a more 'pop-eyed' look.
To do this I am using a modification of my Mozzarella Eye Appetizer (see picture 2), by slicing a mozzarella ball in half, and placing the iris and pupil on top.