So, the right consistency for making these little eyeballs is easy to find with a spoon. We’ve all made icing sugar that we think is perfect for decorating fairy cakes and then when we spoon it on, it runs off like water and your kids give you a withering look as their cupcakes are soggy and covered in what’s essentially a snail trail of sugary water. The most difficult part of making the eyes is making sure you have the right consistency of icing sugar. Royal Icing dries hard – and we need our candy eyes to be hard so they don’t squish! If you can’t buy Royal icing, you can now buy little bottles of Glucose in the baking aisle at ASDA for £1 – add a teaspoon to your icing mix and you have glossy Royal Icing in seconds! Some of them are a bit rogue, but who needs perfect all the time anyway?Īdmire 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! Why Do I Need to Use Royal Icing? I made 260 and it took me about five minutes. Pipe away! Make little dots all over your paper. And look how many you can make once you get into the groove of things! But for completeness, here’s what I used: How to make edible eyeballsĪll of the instructions are in the recipe below. The simple answer is sugar, water and food colouring. If you’re wondering to yourself what you could possibly do with a whole jar of sugar eye decorations, you can either wait until next week or you can see the little chocolate butterflies I made here when I only had two children, neither of whom was in school and we could take time out to have little chocolate tea parties. Save yourself the £5 I wasted and follow me to the land of edible eyes in *any* size you want them to be. So today I decided to take a stand and draw the line – I made my own….and so can you. So now I have even more in my big jar of eyeballs. They arrived this morning….and they weren’t the size they said they’d be. I have the regular Wilton Candy Eyes, I have the Cake Decor company ones, and both of those are far too big for what I need, so I spent £5 buying myself 48 edible sugar eyes and having them delivered through Amazon Prime. Hey, friends! So as I’m getting ready to make Easter and Spring treats this week, I was shopping on Amazon in search of some small sugar eyes.
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