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Edible Sugar Eyeballs

Make Sugar Eyeballs for your Fun Food Creations easily and quickly, whatever size - without paying a small fortune.
Print Recipe
Prep Time:1 hour
Total Time:1 hour

Equipment

  • Sieve
  • Piping Bag
  • Piping tips #2 and #5 [the bigger the nozzle size, the bigger the eyeball can be]
  • Baking Paper/Greaseproof Paper
  • Spoon

Ingredients

Sugar Eyes Ingredients

  • Royal Icing or Icing Sugar and Glucose
  • Water
  • Black Food Colouring

Instructions

  • How to make edible eyeballs
  • Wash your hands. Always worth saying. haha.
  • Battle Stations! Prepare your area. Lay out the baking paper on a tray or board. I used tape to secure my edges so the paper doesn’t shuffle about and cause havoc.
  • Sieve icing sugar into a bowl and add water and glucose, or add your royal icing with water and mix. Make sure you get the right consistency – see below, but you want it to have little peaks that disappear within about 8 seconds.
  • Split the icing in two parts and add black food colouring to the second bowl. You’re going to use less black than white, so portion your bowls accordingly. Make sure you mix enough food colouring in to turn the icing black and not just armadillo grey like the groom’s cake in Steel Magnolias. If you’re using gel colouring it shouldn’t make a difference to the consistency, but if you’re using water based ones be careful not to increase the runniness – or viscosity if you’re a science person.
  • Screw on the number five icing tip [or whatever number you need, I’m making my small eyeballs today] and fill the icing bag with your white icing sugar mix.
  • Pipe away! Make little dots all over your paper. I made 260 and it took me about five minutes. Some of them are a bit rogue, but who needs perfect all the time anyway?
  • Once you’re done, pop the black icing into a bag with a number 2 nozzle, and add the irises to the eyeballs. This part was the hardest in the piping process.
  • Leave them to set for 24 hours and then check the last eyeball that you piped – if it comes off easily, it’s ready, and so are the others.
  • Admire your work, cheer that you’ll never have to buy icing sugar eyes ever again, and pop them into a jar to make them look pretty!
Keyword: Baking Embellishments, Fun Food Creation
Servings: 100
Cost: £4