How about an hour of work for a month full of fun food? These easy hard icing eyeballs take about an hour or less and you'll have decorations for the rest of Halloween (they'll last for months in an airtight container). Actually, they'd be cute anytime you need something fun on your food! For some reason, it cracks my kids up to see "eyeballs" on their food. 
Eyeballs, Eyeballs Everywhere
Ingredients:
Royal Icing (recipes below)
Black Food Coloring (or cocoa powder)
Wax Paper
Circular cake decorating frosting tip or Ziploc Freezer Bag Directions: Tape wax paper to counter or table. Using black food coloring, tint 1/4 of your icing black (if you don't have black food coloring, you can use cocoa powder to make a dark brown--add a little water if your icing gets too thick). Using a cake decorating bag with a circular tip (or simply use a freezer ziploc bag and cut off a tiny bit of one corner if you don't have cake decorating supplies). Using white first, squeeze out a counter full of dots:
Add a small amount of black for the pupil (you can still do this while the white is wet): Let dry overnight, peel off (the kids love this part!) and store in an airtight container, they will last for months. Pull a few out anytime you want to jazz up your food!ROYAL ICING (Egg White Recipe)
Ingredients:
3 egg whites, room temperature
1 lb. powdered sugar
1/2 tsp. cream of tartar
Combine ingredients, beat at high speed for 7-10 minutes.
ROYAL ICING (Meringue Powder recipe)
Ingredients:
3 tbsp. meringue powder (you can get this in the wedding/cake supplies at Wal-Mart)
1 lb. confectioners' sugar
6 tbsp. warm water (in humidity use less water)
Beat all ingredients until icing forms peaks at low speed. Yield approximately 3 cups.
Notes: Please keep icing covered with a damp cloth or paper towel while not in use, otherwise it will harden. To attach eyeballs to food, moisten the back of the eyeball with a little water and it will stick to most anything.
15 comments:
Another great idea! What a fun mom you are!
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cute! i bet your kids love all this stuff!
we made ghost pancakes last weekend! my oldest wants them every weekend now!:)
Too freakin' cute!!!!
While we live with my parents for a few months I'm in charge of cooking. My daughter is only 15 mo. old, but I think my parents would really get a kick out of this! haha!
OMG, how perfect! I know my little guy would get a kick out of this. I'm always up for timesavers!!
Jen
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What a funny idea. I love it!
So cute! Love those little eyes. what a hit those would be. Thanks for the idea!
That is an awesome idea! You never cease to amaze me!
SO adorable!
ah the eyeballs are so so cute!
Wow! I am doing this one. What a fabulous idea!
I so wish I had found this for this year's April Fools! LOVE IT!
I've gotta try these. I'm thinking maybe little balls (like the silver ones--can you get them in black or chocolate?) would be cool for they dot in the middle.
What a fun idea! I love that you can keep a stash of them in the fridge. Thanks for sharing!
This is awesome and you are amazing, thank you for sharing!!!
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