If you’re looking for a Halloween party snack that isn’t packed with sugar, these Tomato and Mozzarella Eyeball Skewers are the perfect bite! They’re fresh, fun, and just creepy enough to fit right in with all the spooky treats on your table. Juicy cherry tomatoes and marinated mozzarella balls get a playful twist with sliced black olives to turn them into little eyeballs.

These skewers are simple to make but look so festive on your Halloween spread. They’re perfect for guests who want something light and savory between all the candy and desserts. You can even add a few basil leaves for a pop of color or use green olives for a monster-eye look!

Who says Halloween food has to be sweet? These Tomato and Mozzarella Eyeball Skewers prove that savory can be just as spooky and just as delicious.

Ingredients For Tomato and Mozzarella Eyeball Skewers:

• Cherry tomatoes
• Marinated mozzarella balls (with herbed oil)
• Sliced black olives
• Wooden skewers

Ingredient amounts and recipe directions are in the recipe card below with a print option!

How To Make Mozzarella & Tomato Eyeball Skewers:

More Savory Halloween Recipes:

• Mozzarella Skull Caprese Pasta Salad – CreepyCaprese
• Skull Cheeseburger Pies
• Mushroom Skull Spaghetti
• Monster Mac and Cheese

More Halloween Eyeball Recipes:

• Eyeball Oreos
• Bloodshot Eyeball Cookies
• Bloodshot Eyeball Apple Slices
• Spooky Chocolate Caramel Apple EyeBalls

Tomato and Mozzarella Eyeball Skewers

Tomato and Mozzarella Eyeball Skewers

Yield: 12 Skewers

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Total Time: 15 minutes

Looking for a fun Halloween appetizer that’s not packed with sugar? These Tomato and Mozzarella Eyeball Skewers are a spooky, savory twist made with cherry tomatoes, marinated mozzarella balls, and black olives. Fresh, easy, and frightfully festive!

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Ingredients

• 36 cherry tomatoes
• 24 marinated mozzarella balls (with seasoned oil)
• 24 slices of black olives
• 12 wooden skewers

Instructions

1. Thread three cherry tomatoes and two mozzarella balls onto each skewer, alternating as you go, starting with a tomato.
2. Lay all the skewers out on a serving platter.
3. Press one sliced black olive onto each mozzarella ball to make your “eyeballs.”
4. Drizzle a little of the flavorful oil from the marinated mozzarella over the top before serving.

Notes

Serve slightly chilled or at room temperature for the best flavor.

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If you love this recipe, don’t forget to share it with your fellow Halloween queens and ghouls. Tag your creepy creations with #SouthernHalloweenQueen and let us see your hauntingly good twists!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Welcome to 2025’s #HalloweenTreatsWeek event!

This is our 8th year doing #HalloweenTreatsWeek … has it really been 8 years? Wow!

#HalloweenTreatsWeek is a Halloween blogging event that is hosted by Angie from Big Bear’s Wife every October. This event is an online, week-long event that is filled with some amazingly wicked Halloween treats and recipes from some fantastic Halloween-loving bloggers!

Make Sure to check out all of the fun Halloween recipes that we’re sharing this week!

• Mummy Chicken Pot Pies from Big Bear’s Wife
• Marshmallow Ghost Dip from Semi-Homemade Recipes
• Mozzarella and Tomato Eyeball Skewers from Southern Halloween Queen
• Vampire Bite Cake Shake from Cheese Curd In Paradise
• Halloween Margarita Mocktail from Jen Around the World
• Black Cocoa Raven Cookies from Savory Moments
• Mummy Meatballs from Karen’s Kitchen Stories
• Eyeball Cookies from Jolene’s Recipe Journal
• Skull Gnocchi from The Spiffy Cookie
• Witch’s Brew Cocktail from Art of Natural Living
• Beetlejuice Bramble from A Kitchen Hoor’s Adventures
• Franken Berry Crumb Cake from Sweet ReciPEAs
• Beetlejuice Movie Night Snack Mix from For the Love of Food

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These Bloodshot Eyeball Apple Slices are perfect for dessert after a Halloween dinner party but they’re also a fun project to make with the kids! We love chocolate and caramel apples around here but we don’t always want to make a bunch of chocolate covered apples as in the WHOLE apple.

I made Chocolate Covered Bloodshot Apples a few years ago for Halloween and they were amazing but let’s be honest. Most little kids are going to take a few bites and be done with it, that’s why I love these Bloodshot Eyeball Apple Slices. They are just as spooky and fun as the entire apple being transformed into an eye ball but they’re more manageable and less wasteful when it comes to treats for the kids!

Here are a few things I used for these apple slices:

Wilton’s Eyeball Icing Decorations

These royal icing sugar eyeballs are perfect for the center of these bloodshot eyeball apples. They look great and they add awesome detail to treats without any decorating talent needed!

Paper Straws from Sweets and Treats –

I love these purely for decorating purposes when it comes to these candy eyeballs. I use a chopstick to skewer the apples to make the pops but a plain ol’ chopstick is kind of boring looking. So once I dip the apple slices in white chocolate candy coating I just slide one of these paper straws over the chopstick and into the melted chocolate at the base of the apple to create a fun apple stick without much work.

How to make Bloodshot Eyeball Apple Slices:

These Bloodshot Eyeball Apple Slices are so simple to make y’all!
Look at this.

You take an apple and slice it into 3 or 4 thick slices. If your slice has seeds, remove those.

Skewer the apple slice carefully with a chopstick.

Pat the apple dry with a paper towel and dip it into melted white chocolate candy coating.

Add a candy eyeball to the center of the apple slice and slide paper straw over the chopstick. Press the paper straw into the melted white candy coating at the bottom of the apple to make sure it sticks well.

Melt some red candy melts and drizzle some onto the eyeballs to line up with the bloodshot lines on the candy eye.

Let the apple slices sit for 15-30 minutes or until the candy coasting has hardened.

I think that these are best if made

I made Graveyard Apple Slices last year and they were such a hit that I’ve been working on more ideas for Chocolate covered apple slices!  Any themed or ideas you’d like to see transformed into an apple slice dessert? I’m thinking Jack Skellington next!

Q&A:

• Can I use regular white chocolate instead of candy melts.

Maybe. I don’t dip fruits and candies in regular melted white chocolate though so I can’t promise it will look like the photos.

• The white chocolate isn’t sticking. Is the apple too wet?

It could be! Make sure to pat the apples dry very well before dipping!

Bloodshot Eyeball Apple Slices

Bloodshot Eyeball Apple Slices

Yield: 8-10 APPLE SLICES

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 6 minutes

Cool Time: 30 minutes

Total Time: 51 minutes

Love Chocolate Apples but don't want to dip tons of them for a party? These Bloodshot Eyeball Apple Slices are the answer to your problems! Just as tasty and oh so spooky when decorated to look like bloodshot eyeballs! 

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Ingredients

• 2 large apples
• 16 ounces Chocolate Candy Coating
• Royal Icing Eyeball Decorations
• 6 ounces Red Candy Coating
• 8 - 10 chopsticks
• 8 - 10 paper straws

Instructions

Slice apples into thick slices and remove seeds. Each apple should give you 4 or so apple slices.

Carefully push a chopstick into the bottom of each apple slice. Make sure not to break the apples.

Pat apple slices dry with a paper towel.

Melt white candy coating according to package directions.

Dip apples completely in melted chocolate. Tap off excess.

Lay on a flat surface that's been covered with foil or parchment paper (or on a silicone mat).

Slide paper straw over the chopstick. Press the paper straw into the melted white candy coating at the bottom of the apple to make sure it sticks well. 

Add candy eye to the apples.

Melt red candy coating according to package directions.

Drizzle red onto the eyeballs to line up with the bloodshot lines on the candy eye.

Let apple slices sit until chocolate hardens.-

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Have you even been to a Halloween party and felt like you were being watched? Maybe as you got closer to the dessert table the feeling of eyeballs following you was growing stronger and stronger?

If so, you were probably standing next to these Creepy Eyeball Donuts! They’re watching you and waiting for you to take a bite!

These sweet and tasty homemade vanilla donuts have been baked up and given a Halloween glow! They’re frosted and topped with a sweet gummy eyeball that will hauntly looking into your soul while you’re munching away at it.

Here’s a tip from me to you! Want to make black frosting but worried about using a TON of black food coloring or ending up with gray instead of a deep black color? Start off with chocolate frosting instead of white! If you start your journey to black frosting with a chocolate frosting base you don’t have to add as much food coloring. That means that you’ll get a deep dark color and you won’t have to over power the sweet frosting with bitter black food coloring.

Just think, you could make cupcakes to match these Creepy Eyeball Donuts or maybe even a giant eyeball cake!

Heck, have an eyeball Halloween party and serve up these eyeball donuts along side a tray of Eyeball Fudge Brownies, Eyeball Caramel Apples and Eyeball Pasta!

We have a whole section of Eyeball recipes here on the Southern Halloween Queen blog!

 Creepy Eyeball Donuts

Nicole says,

Reposted with permission from Nicole at DailyDishRecipes.com

Nicole blogs at DailyDishRecipes.com – She blogs with her daughter, Brielle and they’re Midwest girls, with a little south in their hearts.

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“Shared with permission from Jenni at PastryChefOnline.com”

I love deviled eggs and make them for almost every holiday dinner that we have with the family. These deviled eggs from Jenni are the perfect dish to make for any Halloween themed party or dinner!

Their spooky eyes will peer into the souls of your guest as they spook your guests tastebuds with their amazing flavor!

Below you’ll find the link to Jenni’s post over on her blog and not only does she give the recipes for these hauntly Devilish Halloween Deviled Eggs but she also gives you all kinds of tips and tricks for getting the perfect hard boiled eggs for deviled eggs.

If you’ve ever made deviled eggs you know that sometimes getting that shell to come off perfectly can be a little bit of a challenge.

With Jenni’s tutorials and tips, you’ll be making the most perfectly evil Halloween deviled eggs in no time!

Devilish Halloween Deviled Eggs

Jenni says

These Halloween Deviled Eggs are easy to make, have a creepy, textured outside, and are also excellent. Make them for Halloween or for any occasion that calls for deviled eggs.

Reposted with permission from Jenni at PastryChefOnline.com

Jenni blogs at PastryChefOnline.com where she serves up some amazing recipe teaches techniques for cooking and baking that will help you get dinners (and desserts) on the table and still have time to live your life! She’s here to help you be fearless in the kitchen!

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• Halloween Black and White Style Cookies

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“Shared with permission from Dorothy at CrazyforCrusts.com”

Oh pudding cookies! Pudding cookies are so good, y’all! They’re probably one of my favorite ways to make chocolate chip cookies, even though it’s been a while since I’ve made them.

However, these Peanut Butter Pudding Cookie Monsters make me want to get into the kitchen right now and whip up a batch.

Peanut butter, pudding and monster eyes make these Peanut Butter Pudding Cookie Monsters boo-tiful! – Angie, Southern Halloween Queen

Dorothy has the free recipe for y’all over on her blog and she’ll tell you exactly how to make these fun Peanut Butter Pudding Cookie Monsters.

I think that after you make these that you’re going to fall in LOVE with pudding cookies and with monster cookies…if you haven’t already.

I think the Halloween sprinkles and spooky candy eyeballs are just what these Halloween cookies need.

Peanut Butter Pudding Cookie Monsters

Dorothy says,

If you’re looking to cuteifize (new word) any cookie, add some eyeballs. They take the “I want to eat you” factor up about a million, not that these cookies need it. I mean, they’re Peanut Butter Pudding Cookies. You don’t get much better than that!

Reposted with permission from Dorothy at CrazyforCrusts.com

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• Halloween Fudge
• Peanut Butter Pudding Cookie Monsters

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“Shared with permission from Jenn at PeasandCrayons.com ”

If you love crazy beautiful recipes with bright colors and tons of veggies, you’re going to fall in love with Jenn from PeasandCrayons.com

She takes the most beautiful and vibrant colored photos too. So when you need a break from all of the candy and sweets of Halloween but still want some spooky eats, jump over and check out her blog and grab this Spooky Halloween Monster Mash Soup recipe!

Use Jenn’s directions for this Spooky Halloween Monster Mash Soup to turn ANY soup into a monster!  – Angie, Southern Halloween Queen

I love that you can use this recipe to make ANY soup a Halloween themed soup and I’m loving the zucchini spider web noodles! haha

Spooky Halloween Monster Mash Soup

Jenn says,

The utterly awesome thing about this recipe is that you can essentially spookify any soup you’d like! Tomato, pumpkin, sweet potato and squash soups galore, they’ll all work gloriously with a set of creepy peepers thrown into the mix! Even a store bought soup would work in a pinch.

Reposted with permission from Jenn at PeasandCrayons.com

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Jenn blogs at PeasandCrayons.com – Jenn is your guide to all things veggie! It’ll be fun, painless, and pretty darn delicious as she teaches you to plan your meals around fresh, seasonal produce with a little help from healthy freezer and pantry staples.

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• Spooky and Healthy Halloween Snacks
• Spooky Halloween Monster Mash Soup

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“This post/recipe originally appeared on my main blog BigBearsWife.com”

Do you watch shows on Netflix? I use to only use Netflix to catch up on TV shows that I already watch but missed on “live TV” and to watch movies.

Lately, though I’ve been looking for new shows on Netflix, ones that I haven’t seen on tv.

Recently we’ve been caught up in watching Salem! As normal, I’m behind on everything haha and it looks like this show started back in 2014.

However, I’m just now starting to watch it and I really like it so far. I mean I normally always love any show that’s set in the 1700s or 1800s and since this one is all about Salem and witches you know that it’s right up my alley.

It’s pretty much the perfect show to watch right here before Halloween.

Well that and we’ve been watching Sleepy Hollow on FOX as well. Between those two shows, Hocus Pocus and The Nightmare Before Christmas I’ve pretty much got my Halloween TV covered.

That’s really all I’ve got going for me this Halloween. I don’t have the awesomely decorated house, I haven’t planned a party and I don’t have a Halloween costume.

I think that I may just hide in my apartment this Halloween and pretend like it skipped us this year.

I’m kinda of feeling like I need to go ahead and skip on over to Thanksgiving but now before I share these Spooky Eyeball Fudge Brownies with you.

You still have time to make these super awesome fudge brownies before Halloween gets here!

Headed to a Halloween Party? Carry a tray of these Spooky Eyeball Fudge Brownies and you’ll be the talk of the party!

Happy Haunting! Check out all of the spooky Halloween recipes and crafts on BigBearsWife.com!!

 Spooky Eyeball Fudge Brownies

Spooky Eyeball Fudge Brownies

Yield: 9 Brownies

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 45 minutes

Cool Time: 2 hours

Total Time: 3 hours

Spooky Eyeball Fudge Brownies - Super easy brownies with a fudge topping and candy eyes make up these Spooky Eyeball Fudge Brownies!

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Ingredients

• 1 box fudge brownie mix
• 1/4 cup water
• 1/3 cup oil
• 1 egg
• 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1 (14 oz) can sweetened condensed milk
• 1 teaspoon chocolate extract
• Candy Eyeballs

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350F.

In a bowl combine the brownie mix, water, oil and egg. Mix well.

Line a 8x8 pan with foil or parchment paper .

Bake brownies for 40 minutes or until done.

Leave them in the pan and let them cool completely.

Bring a small pot filled with 2 inches of water to a boil on the stove top.

Place a metal or glass bowl on top of the the simmer water but don't let the bowl touch the water. Add the semi-sweet chocolate chips and sweetened condensed milk to the bowl. Stir until melted and smooth. Stir in the chocolate extract. Pour the chocolate fudge over the top of the brownies in an even layer.

Top the fudge brownies with candy eyeballs.

Let the fudge cool for at least 2 to 3 hours before slicing.

 

 

 

 

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I’ve got another spooky Halloween apple post for you today! This time I’ve brought out the eyeballs! muhahahah

Yep, you’ll totally need these Spooky Chocolate Caramel Apple EyeBalls to go along with the Jack Skellington Chocolate Apples!

One of those apples was a creepy green eyeball candy apple!

Caramel apples have been a favorite of mine since I was little but when you top that caramel with chocolate, oooo it makes them even better!

I sat the apples onto orange cupcake liners after I dipped them and I slipped a black and white paper straw over the candy stick white the chocolate was still wet to give them more of a “Halloween” look!

Halloween is almost here! Are you ready?!?

Happy Haunting! Check out all of the spooky Halloween recipes and crafts on this website!!

 Spooky Chocolate Caramel Apples EyeBalls

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Post and Recipe reposted with from my other blog BigBearsWife.com

Angie runs this blog, “Southern Halloween Queen” where she shares her love of Halloween with her own recipes and fun recipes/projects from other Halloween loving bloggers! She also runs her first blog, BigBearsWife.com that’s packed full of Southern recipes, her love of Disney and fun vacation ideas! 

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• Jack Skellington Macarons
• Spooky Chocolate Caramel Apple EyeBalls
• Pumpkin Macaroni and Cheese
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This fun spooky Halloween Eyeball Pasta dinner is easy to make and kids love it! It’s the perfect way to fill up their bellies before heading out to events!!

“Shared with permission from Holly at SpendwithPennies.com”

When it comes to Halloween I’m normally a “sweets and desserts” all the way kind of Halloween lover but something about this Eyeball Pasta has me wanting to make an entire Halloween dinner menu of Savory Halloween Foods!

Holly made some super spooky savory eyeballs for this Halloween pasta and the green noodles are perfect!

The green noodles kind of look like alien tentacles to me!

Whatcha think? Between those green alien monster arms and the creepy eyeballs, any Halloween party would be lucky to have this Eyeball Pasta served as the main course!

While I’m pretty great at making sweet candy eyeballs for Halloween desserts, I was super excited to see how Holly created these cheesy eyeballs for pasta!

She’s got the eyeball making tutorial on her blog and the recipe for this pasta.

You can find that link below. Also, don’t worry! The eyeballs couldn’t be easier and you’re going to want to add them to ALL of your Halloween dishes for this year’s Halloween party!

Eyeball Pasta

Holly says,

Spinach pasta is naturally green making it the perfect way to serve up this spooky dinner.  If you’d like your pasta a little brighter you can add a few drops of green food coloring to the water while it’s boiling.

Reposted with permission from Holly at SpendwithPennies.com

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Holly blogs at SpendwithPennies.com – She is a wine and cheese lover, recipe creator, shopping enthusiast and self-appointed foodie. Her greatest passion is creating in the kitchen and making deliciously comforting recipes for the everyday home cook! 

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• Spider Cupcakes
• Meatball Mummies

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“This post originally appeared on Food Fanatic and was reposted with permission”

In the neighborhood I used to take my daughter trick-or-treating in when she was younger, just about every house went all out. There was this one house that had scary music playing and smoke filling the yard and if you were brave enough to walk up to the door and ring the bell, you were greeted by Mr. and Mrs. Frankenstein!

There was this other house that had a haunted house in their front yard – with children forgetting that there was a “treat” component to the night! And then there was this other house that would have a maze to their door, and along the way, you would have to deal with creepy crawlies, hands coming out of the ground and people popping out of their graves!

But, my favorite house was the one that had a buffet laid out. On one side of their garage, these foodie-folks would have a table set out with every kind of candy imaginable for the kids and on the other side of their garage, they had a table set up for the parents who were braving the night. And they went all out! One year there was chili with hot dogs and cornbread. Then another year they were grilling chicken and you could have your pick of coleslaw or potato wedges. And then there was this other time when they had their table decked out with a smorgasbord of Halloween appetizers like asparagus and bacon mummies, mummies-in-a-blanket, meatball and chip bats, a skull cheeseball with witch fingers to dip into it with, and bloody deviled eggs.

And, it was their bloody deviled eggs that inspired these Deviled Egg Eyeballs. However, I did not use ketchup and food coloring like they did. And, I also skipped on the mayo that goes into most deviled eggs. What I did use for the coloring were beets, which when mixed with spicy mustard and paprika, made for a deviled egg even my picky teen daughter approved of!

Post and Recipe reposted with permission from Food Fanatic and was created by Shashi of Savory Spin!

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Shashi is the blogger behind Savory Spin were she’s creating baked treats, savory eats, and adaptations of some of her favorite Sri Lankan recipes, made with easy-to-find, budget-friendly, ingredients and spices galore. 

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• Icky Intestines Bread

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