HOWTO make edible Hallowe'en eyeballs

Here's a supremely icky Hallowe'en recipe: glistening gelatin/marshmallow eyeballs: "Dissolve lemon gelatin in 1 cup water in double boiler, add marshmallows and stir to melt. Remove from heat. Add pineapple juice and cream cheese. Beat until well blended. Cool slightly. If you have a truffle candy mold or round ice cube trays, spary them with non-stick cooking spray first, then pour the mixture in the molds and leave to set in the fridge. Otherwise pour into a deep ceramic dish and chill until thickened or firm enough for scooping into eyeballs. Using a melonballer, scoop full balls of the mixture and set aside for decoration. To decorate, use liquid food coloring and an old detail paintbrush and get creative. You will need black food coloring for the pupils. Also, if you are in a hurry, instead of painting the colored irises, you can carefully dip the ball in a small pool of food coloring to approximate the iris, but still paint on the pupils. Note: if you are using the melonballer method, you might need to add one package of plain gelatin to your mixture. The molds work fine with just the lemon gelatin to make gently squishy eyeballs."

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MrAverage

Kromagg finger food. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Anonymous

Use an old paintbrush?
- Xopher
  
  Yeah, bad idea. No going from non-food to food. Other way around may not be a great idea either but at least it won’t kill anyone.
Heartfruit

If you are in a rush you can get some pretty icky looking eye balls by taking canned lychee fruit and stuffing them with grapes. Quick, tasty and creepy.
Anonymous

another recipe that might not turn out quite as cool-looking, but is much simpler. my kids love it:

ingredients:

gummi life savers
jelly bellies
jello
plastic eggs (like easter eggs)

1. make the jello.
2. stick a jelly belly into the center of each gummi life saver, put them in the bottom of each plastic egg
3. fill the eggs with jello

put ‘em in the freezer for a few minutes, they’re ready to pop out when the jello is set.
Gregory Goldmacher

Yum! Must try this.
joncamfield

Building on HeartFruit’s lychee setup, canned logans soaked in vodka + jello shot goop poured carefully into the pit = tasty, eyebally jello-y shots
Anonymous

I like how you spell “Hallowe’en”.