3/6/2023 0 Comments Chocolate eyeballs![]() ![]() Go easy on the thickness of the paint as it can take a while to dry out - make it as thin as possible. Paint red veins on the white of the eye if desired. Decorate the iris with your blue pens and then add a dot of white paint to the top corner of the pupil.Once you’ve covered your five balls with white icing, glue the iris to the eyeball using edible glue.You may notice that the icing goes glossy as the balls defrost but don’t worry about this, I found it actually aids the painting process and they will dry out again within an hour or so.At this point you can set it aside at room temperature, you were only keeping it frozen to aid the covering process. Roll the ball between your hands until it is smooth and then pop it in a petit four case. Wrap the white icing around the ball, patching any gaps with additional icing.If you’ve cut it a little small you can roll out the circle a bit more with your rolling pin to expand it, it doesn’t need to be a perfect circle. Cut out a white circle of icing large enough to cover your eyeballs. Take 5 of your balls out of the freezer at a time, leaving the rest in the freezer.Dust your surface with a little more icing sugar if needed and then roll out your white icing to around 1/4cm thick.Glue the pupil to the centre of the iris with your edible glue and set it aside to dry.Please see the recipe video for a demonstration. I used the different ends of a piping nozzle to cut out the pupils and irises and it worked perfectly. Repeat this process for the pupils using the black icing and cutting out smaller circles.Dust a smooth surface with a little icing sugar and roll out your blue icing to around 1/8-1/4cm thick. Whilst your balls are in the freezer, make your irises.Now I’ve run out of synonyms for the word ‘gruesome’ so lets get into the recipe. and I don’t think I did too bad? Ready to roll icing is also widely available in supermarkets and my local is labelled as vegan. If you’ve never indulged in ‘cake decorating’ before I can tell you it’s much simpler that you might think - this was actually my first ever attempt at icing anything…. The painting element of this is very fun indeed and doesn’t require a particularly artistic skillset (I can vouch for that). Deliciously terrifying.Īdd a slick of ready to roll white icing around the outside, a miniature iris and pupil and the occasional red painted blood vessel and you’ve got yourself a frightful looking party snack. I couldn’t create such a horrifying-looking treat without a little surprise, so as you bite into them they’ve got a pop of raspberry jam in the middle. They’re no bake (winner) and a deliciously gooey combination of caramelly dates, rich cacao and moreish almond butter. In cake-debrief conversations with Ma (aka the real brains behind this blog) a plan was hatched for a cake with a firm enough structure to support a large spherical shape so watch this space for a large, extra grisly version of these snack-sized eyeballs hopefully coming up soon. The original plan had been for one big eyeball that oozed a suspicious looking (yet tasty) liquid from it’s centre and had sticky, jam covered nerves attached the back of it but after a number of cake attempts and dwindling time I opted for a miniature version instead. ![]() I hadn’t been asked to bring along spine-tingling treats but inspiration often comes out of nowhere. These little gems came about after an invite to a friend’s Halloween party in those blissful pre-COVID days. Who knew making and decorating gruesome eyeball-shaped snacks could be so therapeutic? Best consumed within 3-5 days.Well these were a rather glorious creation. Once cooled, use red icing to add scary veins.Immediately after dipping in hot chocolate, attach candy eye to top of pretzel bite.Remove pretzels from oven and using a skewer, dip round pretzel bite upside down into melted chocolate.While pretzels are baking, melt white chocolate in microwave according to package directions.Bake for 6 minutes, then broil for 1 - 2 minutes until brown.Whisk egg in a small bowl to form an egg wash, and brush tops of each pretzel until coated.Turn dough out onto a floured surface and roll into small, one-inch balls.(If you do not have a stand mixer, knead by hand for 5 minutes instead.) Continue mixing using the dough hook attachment on medium speed for an additional 5 minutes. Touch the dough if it is still really sticky and is clinging to mixing bowl, add an additional 1/4 cup flour at a time until dough balls up and no longer sticks to bowl. Add flour and mix use dough hook attachment on medium speed until combined.Add salt and brown sugar and stir to combine. Stir together water, butter and yeast in the bowl of a stand mixer until yeast is mostly dissolved.Line two baking sheets with parchment paper. ![]()
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