Make Edible Spooky Halloween Eyeball

This Edible Spooky Halloween Eyeball is an amazing idea for parents to try with kids on the Halloween holiday. It is very spooky but you can actually eat it. The eyeball recipe is quite simple. Almost everyone has already had the materials at home. Let’s try this out now.

Age: 5+        Time: <10min

 Safety 

1. Be careful of high temperatures when heating.
2. Adult supervision.
3. Wear heat insulation gloves.

 Materials List 

• Coconut Milk 200ml
• Agar powder 8g
• Spherical mold
• Food coloring (black)
• Heater
• 500ml beaker
• Glass rod

 Instruction 

Step 1/4 – Pour about 200ml of coconut milk into a 500ml beaker and boil it.

Step 2/4 – Add 8g agar powder in the boiled coconut milk and continue boiling for 1~2 minutes.

Step 3/4 – Add 2~3 drops of food coloring and the coconut milk about 10ml to the spherical mold. Stir it up. Keep it in the refrigerator for half an hour until it gets solidified.  (If it has not solidified you can increase the refrigerating time.)

Step 4/4 – After solidification, take out the mold, pour the remaining coconut milk into the mold. Keep it in the refrigerator for 1~2 hours. Then you get your Edible Spooky Halloween Eyeball.

 Troubleshooting 

Why my spooky eyeball was solidified, in spite of the fact that I have kept in the fridge for such a long time? 

—It may be that the agar powder you add is too little. The agar powder should account for 2%~5% of the coconut milk.

 Scientific Description 

Agar (or Agar Agar) is a gelling agent coming from a southeast Asian seaweed. It is used for scientific purposes (in biology for example), as a clarifying agent in brewing, as a laxative (it’s 80-percent fiber), and as a filler in paper sizing fabric. And it’s, of course, an amazing culinary ingredient. It’s a thickener for soups, in fruits preserves, ice cream, and other desserts. Agar has special gelling properties.  it is easy to absorb water and make the liquid gelly, the process of which is called gelation. It is a basic process in the processing of various foods, milk gels, and fish products, other meat products, fruit jellies, pie, and cake fillings. 

 Extensions 

You can use different modes to make different cute edible gel products.