Make Your Own Edible Eyes

Tired of paying top dollar for edible royal icing eyes to decorate your sweet treats with.

Here is a simple idea which uses extra royal icing left over from cookie decorating, or you can just whip up a batch from scratch.

These eyes are great for decorating cake pops, cookies and pie pops.

Ingredients and equipment
Royal Icing #
Black Food Color (I use Americolor Super Black)
Piping bags with small round tips eg #1 wilton
Tray lined with parchment paper

#If you do not have a favorite recipe for royal icing it can be purchased in powdered form from Craft and Hobby stores, Cake decorating stores and some supermarkets. You just add water and mix and voila royal icing.

If you are mixing up from scratch and not using up left over, only mix up around 1 cup. ! cup of royal icing will make a lot of edible eyes.

Color approximately 1/4 of your royal icing black with the food color.

Fill the piping bag with the white royal icing

Pipe on rows of little white dots around the size you might like the eyes to be.

You can make a variety of different sizes.

Allow the white dots to dry. Overnight is perfect, but at least for a couple of hours until set.

Fill a new piping bag with the black royal icing.

Pipe smaller black dots on top of the white royal icing dots you have already piped.

Let the eyes set until they easily come off the paper - you should be able to lift the paper and shake it and the eyes will move by themselves.

Store the eyes in an airtight container and use as required.

Eyes made with powdered pre-made royal icing or powdered egg whites can be kept for many months.