Eyeball Quesadilla - Quesadillas are really easy to make and a great way of using up scraps of food left over from making bento lunches.

Rice (Eye)balls - Shaped rice is a staple food in traditional Japanese bento boxes, and a simple ball of rice is one of the easiest shapes to achieve, with no special equipment needed.

Eyeball Sandwich Balls - Children love a bit of gory fun, and you can't get much more gory than eyeballs for lunch! Make up a bigger batch for a fun new way of presenting sandwiches for Halloween party food, or just serve some up as snack.

Put the front half on it and let it set in the fridge so the two halves stick together.From .uk Reviews 3 Published Estimated Reading Time 6 mins Place the back side of the gelatin eyeball back in the mold and coat the flat side with some gelatin. Let it set, put in the fridge for half an hour and then pop it out of the mold carefully. You shouldn’t pour hot liquid on the iris or it will melt. I find the best for this is gelatin that can me dispersed in lukewarm liquids but you can use also gelatin which needs hot liquids if it doesn’t set immediately after cooling down. For one eyeball you need to fill the half-sphere with the iris and one without (back side of the eyeball that will be only white). Then make more gelatin in oat milk, about 1.7 oz/50 ml for eyeball and once again, double the amount of gelatin. The white color you see in the picture is because I put the mold in the freezer after painting it red. Use another toothpick to make red lines or stains on the gelatin on the wall. Use a flat brush to paint the wall of the half-sphere with gelatin. You can mix several colors or different tones of one color. Use a toothpick to draw lines around the pupil, choose any color you want for the iris. Let it dry and cover with a slightly larger layer of gelatin, about the size of the iris. Use the food colorant filled pen to draw the pupil on the gelatin. Let it set and then put it in the fridge for two minutes. Put the still liquid gelatin in the syringe and then put two to three drops in the center of the half-sphere.

Make the gelatin according to the instructions on the package but put double of the amount of gelatin for one tablespoon of water.

2.5 in/5 cm diameter silicon half-sphere mold – I have this one and it works fineįirst, we make a little gelatin in water, we’ll need just about a tablespoon of gelatin for one eyeball.

food colorant in gel, any color you want the iris to be.

Such commissions help me keep the blog up and running. This tutorial can contain affiliate links which means that I get a small commission from every sale. You can use any other vegetal milk, like almond or coconut. I find the best liquid to use it the oat “milk” with a few drops of vanilla extract, it makes the eyeball taste like oatmeal. Therefore, I don’t make the eyeballs as just sugar gelatin mass made with water and I also don’t like using milk. It shouldn’t be just a sugar ball that no one will eat and ends up in the trash. Gelatin eyeball is a cake decoration and as such I like to make it tasty. You can see more of my horror and gore cakes here. Gelatin eyeball is a great decoration for your Halloween or other horror and gore cakes, for example this Zombie Pumpkin Cake.

Gelatin edible eyeballs recipe