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125g icing sugar
10g cornstarch
2 tablespoons water
½ teaspoon lemon juice
50g dark chocolate, melted
For Halloween, we're baking yummie mummies tomorrow, filled with the little monsters' favorite fruit: apples! And because those mummies need eyes - otherwise they'll just be tasty but not funny - we're making mummy eyes today.
Those sugar eyes are quickly made, but they do need to harden overnight. So while the mummies are in the oven tomorrow, we'll quickly finish the eyes. We have much fun, all together in the kitchen!
How to make sugar eyes
Weigh the icing sugar and include the cornflour with it.
Whisk it all together until it turns into a smooth, glossy thick icing.
Squeeze the lemon and stir the lemon juice into the icing.
Place a sheet of baking paper onto the baking tray.
Drip small rounds onto the baking paper.
Set the tray aside and let the rounds dry.
Allow the sugar eyes to dry overnight at room temperature
Day 2
Chop a piece of dark chocolate into tiny pieces.
Bring a pan with a small layer of water to the boil.
Melt the chocolate in a bowl on top of the pan.
Remove from the heat when the chocolate starts to melt.
Turn the eyes upside down.
To let the underside dry completely too.
Stamp pupils of chocolate onto the eyes.
Allow the chocolate pupils to dry completely.
Store the sugar eyes in a small cardboard box.
With this recipe you make more than 100 eyes , we made half, but you can keep them for months on end.