Doesn't sound very appetizing, does it?
Here comes the 2nd recipe from our Halloween 2012
They are so delicious that it would be shame to wait for the next Halloween to make them again. This could be very practical for party menus.
You can serve them as plain eyes.
Or you simply serve them as balls decorated with dessicated coconut, candy sprinkles...etc.
Ingredients:100g Graham biscuits
300g Ricotta
400g white chocolate
Decorate with:M&M's or Smarties
60g dark chocolate
1 egg white
200g sugar
1 tsp lemon juice
Red food coloring
Preparation: Grind 50g of white chocolate for 7 seconds on Speed 7.
Melt it for 1 and half minute at 50°C on Speed 2.
Add biscuits and ricotta. Blend for 15 seconds on Speed 5-6.
Wrap the mixture with plastic film and let it rest in the fridge for half an hour.
Get small pieces from the dough, roll into a ball shape, place them on a baking paper covered tray. (In the original recipe they prepare 30 eyeballs, instead we prepared 20. It obviously depends on the size you prefer. For me, the size we prepared was just perfect for our needs)
Put the tray with eyeballs in the freezer for 15 minutes so that they set and harden.
Break the remaining 350g of white chocolate into pieces and place in a clean and dry TM Bowl. Grind for 10 seconds on Speed 7.
Melt it for 4-5 minutes at 50°C on Speed 2.
Transfer half of the melted chocolate in a bowl. (Let the other half stay in TM Bowl. In case it thickens you can easily rewarm it)
Place one ball at a time into the bowl of melted chocolate. Spoon extra coating over any uncoated areas of the ball to make sure it is completely covered in chocolate. Then lift out the cake ball with your fork gently shaking and draining the excess chocolate. Put it on baking paper. Place immediately a Smarties and press it over gently.
Continue to coat and decorate the remaining balls as described above.
Cut the excess chocolate off with a sharp knife when the chocolate is hardened.
Grind dark chocolate for 7 seconds on Speed 7.
Melt it for 1 and half minute at 50°C on Speed 2.
Put melted dark chocolate in a piping bag or paper cone and pipe it onto the centre of the candies to for pupils.
For royal icing, put sugar in a clean and wiped TM Bowl. Polverize for 40 seconds on Speed 10.
Add egg white, lemon juice and red coloring. Mix for 20 seconds on Speed 6. (Of course you will have more royal icing then you need only for this recipe)
Using a piping bag or paper cone pipe it over the eyeballs forming capillaries.
Let them rest in the fridge for 2 hours and then serve.
You can serve them in paper if you wish. We served them in small glass bowls.
Enjoy...
Photos:
http://thermomixtarifdefterim.blogspot.it/2012/11/bloodshot-eyeballs.html