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NATRAJA MEDIA
HALLOWEEN 2023
FRIGHTFULLY YUMMY RECIPES DIY Googly Eye Recipe
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MIXING BOWLS: You will need two mixing bowls. One to mix together all the ingredients, except the cocoa powder, and make the white bulk icing, and a second for when you need to make the mixture for the pupils. PIPING BAGS AND NOZZLES: You will need two piping bags and two small round tip writing piping nozzles. Ideally one of the round tip piping nozzles will be smaller than the other, this one will be for the pupils. BAKING SHEETS: The mixture makes up to 100 edible eyes so you may need several flat baking trays to get all of them on. NON STICK BAKING PAPER OR PARCHMENT PAINGREDIENTS: PER: Non-stick baking paper is the best for these as it will ICING SUGAR: This makes up the bulk of the make it easier for the eyes to peel off once dried. google eyes. Make sure you sift the icing sugar WHISK: You will need a whisk to combine the ingredients. before using it to remove any lumps. CORNFLOUR: Cornflour helps thicken the ic- Instructions: ing mixture WATER: Mix in small amounts of water at a time 1. Combine icing sugar, corn starch, vanilla (optional) and until you have the right consistency. You don’t water until smooth consistentcy is reached. want it too thick that its hard to pipe and you (Remember that we will be piping the icing therefore it don’t want it too runny that it doesn’t keep the should neither be runny nor too firm.) round eye shape. 2. Remove about three tablespoons of white mixture and VANILLA EXTRACT: The flavouring is com- mix in the black cocoa or black food coloring. pletely optional to make the eyes taste a little (You may need a bit more water depending on which colmore interesting. oring option you chose.) BLACK COCOA POWDER OR BLACK FOOD 3. Once the two colours have been properly mixed – add COLOURING: This will make the pupils of your them to two different piping bags fitted with edible eyes. With Black cocoa powder the dark piping nozzles. pigment works perfect in the recipe to create 4. Pipe white circles onto the baking sheet lined with pitch black pupils but black food colouring also parchment paper. You can opt to pipe them all the same works well. size or do a variety of sizes. If you do some larger ones and Tip: if you want to use what you already have some of them a smaller size, make sure you pipe them in in your pantry, making black food colouring re- pairs so you always have two of each. Don’t worry about quires blue, green and red food dyes. making them all uniform – that’s just part of the fun of If you’re using black food colouring, choose gel googly eyes! However, don’t go over 1/4 inch in diameter colouring for the most pigmented colouring. or they may have trouble drying out. 5. While the white dots are still wet, pipe the black coIngredients: lour on top of the white dots. These dots should be much • 1 cup or 125g icing sugar (Powdered sugar) smaller than the white and as central as you can get them. Continue until all of your whites have been filled. • 1 tablespoon or 9g corn starch (Cornflour) 6. Once you have finished piping all of your googly eyes, • 1/4 teaspoon vanilla essence/ extract (opleave them out to dry (about 24 hours) either at room temtional) perature or in the fridge. Once fully set, gently peel the • 2 tablespoons or 30ml water eyes from the parchment paper and transfer to them into • 1 tablespoon black cocoa powder or black an airtight container and store them somewhere cool and food dry until you’re ready to use them. • gel color
