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Monster Eye Taco Dip

A cold layered taco dip topped with olive-slice eyeballs — the Halloween potluck dish that travels in one dish and needs no reheating.

Layered Halloween taco dip in a glass dish topped with olive-slice monster eyes, tortilla chips beside it
Prep time
20 min
Serves
12
Difficulty
Easy
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The dish to carry to somebody else's party: one glass dish, no oven at the other end, and a top covered in staring olive-ring eyes.

Ingredients

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Instructions

  1. Stir the taco seasoning into the refried beans and spread them across the bottom of a glass dish.
  2. Layer the guacamole, then the sour cream, then the drained salsa, keeping each layer even and right to the edges so they show through the glass.
  3. Scatter the cheddar over the top.
  4. Press olive rings into the cheese in loose rows, each with a dot of sour cream in the middle, for a dish full of staring eyes.
  5. Fill the gaps with diced green pepper and chill at least an hour before serving.

Why it works & making it ahead

Drain the salsa hard — watery salsa is the single thing that turns a layered dip to soup on the drive over. Spread each layer right to the glass so the stripes show from the side. An hour in the fridge sets it enough to scoop without collapsing.

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Drain the salsa well — watery salsa is the one thing that turns a layered dip to soup on the drive over.

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