Spider Egg Cake Tutorial For Halloween

Learn how to make this super fun spider egg cake using gelatin bubbles, marshmallows and pretzel sticks and filled with a fun sprinkle surprise inside! This cake is sure to be an awesome centerpiece at your next Halloween party!

Edible Materials

• Three - 6”x 2" Black Velvet cakes
• 2 cups chocolate
• 2 cups marshmallows
• easy buttercream colored purple and lime green
• sprinkles mix
• pretzel sticks
• black sprinkles
• knox powdered gelatin
• vegetable shortening

Structure Materials

• 14" cake board

Tools

• glass bowl
• 4" metal cutters
• balloon
• toothpick
• tape
• styrofoam for drying

How To Make The Spider Egg

To make our spider egg, start by slicing the domes off the tops of your chocolate cakes and make them nice and level. I torte my cakes in half so I have more buttercream stripes but it's not necessary. Use a 4" circle cutter to cut out the center of the cakes. Save the scraps in a bowl.

To make the base of the spider egg, cover the inside of a bowl with some plastic wrap. Pour in some melted chocolate to create a curved base. Chill it in the freezer until set and then take it out of the bowl and remove the plastic wrap. I glued my chocolate sphere down to my cake board with some more melted chocolate.

I colored some easy buttercream lime green and purple to match my sprinkles colors but you can use any colors you would like. When you're making deep colors like purple, you want to build your colors starting with a base. For example, if I just add purple to my buttercream it won't be very dark but if I start with pink, then add purple, it will have a much richer color.

Because food coloring is water based, it doesn't like to mix with my oil based buttercream. If you remove about ¼ cup of the buttercream and melt it in the microwave until it's just melted, not too hot and mix it back into the buttercream it will create an emulsion and cause the buttercream to darken in color.

Stack your cakes on top of the chocolate sphere and alternate with your colored buttercream. Fill the center of the cakes with your sprinkles mix and then cover the top of the cake with your cake clay to create the curved part of the "egg". Give the whole thing a crumb coat and let it chill.

Once your cake is chilled, you can give it a final coat of buttercream and make it really smooth and chill it once again.

How To Make A Gelatin Bubble Spider

Making this gelatin spider is super simple! I start with my some powdered gelatin. It's a 2:1 recipe. I do 2 Tablespoons water, then sprinkle on 1 Tablespoon gelatin and let it absorb into the water. Then I pour two more Tablespoons on top and add the last Tablespoon of gelatin. Let the gelatin bloom for 5 minutes then melt slowly in 15 second increments. Let cool slightly and scoop off the white foam and add some black food coloring. To make the bubble, I blow up a balloon but keep it very small. Tie the balloon in a knot to form the sphere. You only want it to be 3'-4" in size.

I tape a toothpick to the base of the balloon with some painters tape. I tend to use a lot of tape at the base to help support the balloon once it has gelatin on it. Coat the balloon in some vegetable shortening and let it dry for about it minute. Once the surface goes dull you can now roll the balloon around in the melted gelatin. I did two coats on my bubble so that it was a nice dark black. Let the gelatin dry for about 5 minutes between dipping.

Depending on how big your balloon is, you might find that the balloon won't dry upside down. If that's the case then you can just hang the balloon off to the side. There might be a drip on the underside of the balloon but you won't be able to see it once it's on the cake so don't worry about it too much.

Once the balloon has dried overnight, you can pull the balloon out slightly, pop the balloon and let it deflate and pull away from the gelatin. Pull out the balloon.

To seal the hole, melt down some chocolate and spoon a bit out onto some parchment paper or a silicone mat. Place the gelatin bubble on top and chill it until it hardens up. This bit of chocolate seals the hole in the bubble as well as providing a place to easily attach the gelatin bubble to the body of the spider.

To make the body of the spider, I take some of my cake scraps from the spider egg cake and combine it with some buttercream to make cake clay. I roll that clay into a ball and roll it into some black sprinkles. Then you add a little melted chocolate to the top and glue on your gelatin bubble.

Attach 8 pretzel legs to the body with some more melted chocolate and chill the whole thing for about 10 minutes to let it set up and get really firm.

Completing The Spider Egg Cake

Melt down your marshmallows until they are nice and smooth. You're going to want to wear some gloves for this part or you'll have some very sticky hands. Dip your hands into the marshmallows and stretch the marshmallows out between your fingers. Wrap the strands randomly around the cake to create the web look.

Once you're done adding webbing, attach cake pop stick to the base of your spider with some more melted chocolate and insert the spider onto the top of the cake. Dip some pretzel sticks into some melted chocolate and attach to the ends of the legs and arrange onto the cake so the spider looks like he's sitting on the egg.

I used a couple of green sprinkles for the eyes of the spider to finish off the look.

When you cut into the egg, the spider web sticks to your knife and creates a fun effect that my daughter thought was really entertaining. The sprinkles fall out of the inside of the cake like "eggs" and is pretty fun to see!

Be sure to watch the video on how I put this spider egg cake together and if you decide to make your own spider egg cake, let me know so I can see it!

Happy Halloween everyone!

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Gelatin Bubble Spider

Make this cute gelatin bubble spider topper for a spooky spider egg cake

Prep Time25 minutes mins

Cook Time1 minute min

Total Time26 minutes mins

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: 1

Calories: 429kcal

Author: Elizabeth Marek

Ingredients

Gelatin Bubble Spider

• 2 tablespoon knox unflavored powdered gelatin
• 4 tablespoon cool water
• 2-3 drops black food coloring
• ¼ cup cake scraps
• 1 tablespoon buttercream
• ¼ cup black sprinkles
• ¼ cup melted chocolate
• 16 small pretzel sticks
• 2 green sprinkles for eyes

Other Materials Needed

• 1 balloon
• 1 tablespoon vegetable shortening
• 1 toothpick

Instructions

• Blow up the balloon to until its 3 or 4 inches wide. Tie the balloon tightly and tape the toothpick to the end of the balloon and secure well with tape. 

  Cover the balloon in a layer of vegetable shortening and let it dry for about five minutes
• Prepare your gelatin by sprinkling it over the water slowly and letting it fully absorb for 10 minutes. Melt the gelatin in short bursts of 15 seconds in the microwave until fully melted. Do not whisk, just stir gently or you'll incorporate air
• Let gelatin cool for 5 minutes and scoop off excess white foam. Add a couple of drops of black food coloring and mix. 
• Dip your balloon into the gelatin and place onto the foam to dry for 5 minutes then dip again for a second coat. Let dry overnight
• Once your balloon is dry, pop the balloon and pull it out of the gelatin bubble. Coat the hole with a little melted chocolate and place onto a silicone mat or parchment paper to cool in the fridge until set. 
• smoosh your cake scraps with the buttercream to create some cake clay and roll into a ball. This ball should be about half the size of the gelatin bubble. Roll the cake ball in the black sprinkles. Attach the gelatin ball to the cake ball with some more melted chocolate. 
• Add some legs by dipping the pretzel sticks into the melted chocolate and placing into the spiders body. Chill for 15 minutes. 
• Place a cake pop stick into the base of the spiders body with some more melted chocolate and push the spider topper into the top of the egg cake (see video for preparation)

  Glue on the second half of the spiders legs with some more melted chocolate. Add the sprinkles eyes and you're done! 

Nutrition

Calories: 429kcal | Carbohydrates: 43g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 30g | Saturated Fat: 12g | Sodium: 145mg | Potassium: 127mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 32g | Calcium: 11mg | Iron: 2mg

Realistic Edible Eyeball Tutorial Made With Isomalt and Edible Image Paper Is Perfect For Sculpted Bust Cakes

A realistic edible eyeball is something I have been obsessed with for years. I started by painting fondant with food coloring to get the realistic effect that I wanted. Paying attention to lights and shadows and highlights.

I would meticulously add individual eyelashes made from fondant, I was that obsessed.

The problem with using fondant eyes though is that if I ever made a mistake or had to adjust an eyelid (which I often do) then the paint job would get totally messed up.

Edible Eyeball Inspiration

I would observe how eyeballs where made in the special effects world. I saw this video from the Stan Winston school and an idea for making eyeballs out of isomalt was born in my brain.

I just didn't know how yet.

Then one day I saw my dear friend Sidney from SimiCakes Isomalt post this incredible new product called an isomalt transfer sheet. It transfers a printed image onto the hot isomalt for a super realistic affect.

That's it!

I immediately contacted her and asked if we could make some eyeball transfer sheets. I experimented with molds, sizes, proportions, and the process of making the eyes. The isomalt eyes impressed the judges from Halloween Wars so much, they thought they where made of glass.

Perfecting Edible Eyeballs

The edible image eyes looked great but where so small, it was a little hard to cut out so eventually we switched to edible images which where a lot easier to cut and handle without damage.

The way that I make the edible eyes now uses my ½" eye molds or 1" eye molds and transfer sheets which can be purchased in our shop. You can also use this technique to make any eye you want really. Choose a silicone sphere mold the side you want and you can either print out an iris on your own edible image sheet or you can hand-paint it with food coloring and cut it out. The process is the same.

How To Make Realistic Edible Eyeballs

I hope you enjoy this realistic edible eyeball tutorial and if you use this technique, please tag me @sugargeekshow so I can see it!

Materials Needed
½" eye mold (this is what fits the chocolate skull mold) or 1" eye mold
2 oz clear isomalt
White food coloring
½" iris or 1" iris edible images
Cake gloss or other clear edible isomalt sealer

Tools
Creme brulee torch
Silicone mat
Nitrile gloves
Small scissors
X-acto blade

Realistic Edible Eyes

I love the way these realistic edible eyes look on the finished bust cake. I really feel like it gives my sculpted cakes a whole new level of life. If you want to learn more about sculpting realistic faces, bust cakes and facial anatomy, check out my Egyptian Goddess Cake Tutorial.

Be sure to watch the full video tutorial below on how to make your own realistic edible eyeballs.

Octopus Cake Tutorial With Beautiful Sugar Eyes and A Colorful Pink & Funfetti Cake Inside

This octopus cake tutorial is the second sculpted cake in my beanie boo series. If you loved the sculpted sea turtle cake, then you'll love this octopus cake tutorial! In this tutorial I show you how to make a very simple cake structure without any special tools. How to bake your cake boards so they don't get damaged and of course how to paint fondant and modeling chocolate flawlessly!

The inside of this cake is so colorful and fun! A combo of our white cake recipe colored bright pink and funfetti cake. The layers of bright yellow easy buttercream really make the colors pop.

Materials List
Two 6″ white cakes colored pink 
One 6″ funfetti cake
4 cups easy buttercream frosting
2 lbs fondant recipe
2 lbs modeling chocolate
2 tsp Non-toxic gold or edible gold (note: if you use the edible gold paint then you don’t need confectioners glaze)
2 teaspoon everclear
Food coloring (blue)
Yellow food coloring (I used artisan accents but you can use any brand)
Pink edible artist decorative paint or Poppy Paint
10" cake board (I used cake boards avare but any will be ok)
3" round floracraft foam cylinder
Aluminum foil tape
2 wooden skewers
Hot glue (low temp)

Edible Glitter Eyes

• 1.5″ silicone sphere mold
• silicone cabochon mold
• simi cakes clear isomalt
• black food coloring
• silicone cups for melting isomalt
• edible glitter (or non-toxic is fine)
• creme brulee torch
• cake gloss
• nitrile gloves for hand protection
• silmat for protecting your work surface
• microwave for melting isomalt

Octopus Cake Ideas

I don't know what it is about an octopus that I find so adorable! I've loved them for a long time and when Avalon walked passed a big display of beanie boos and pulled out an octopus, I couldn't say no. I love the cute proportions of this stuffed octopus toy. The big eyes, the stubby little tentacles and the pretty pink color with gold speckles!

Early on, I knew that I wanted to cake this beanie boo. Little did I know it would be one of six beanie boo cakes that I would end up caking!

Easy Octopus Cake Tutorial

I wanted to make this cake easy for anyone to make so I made sure to use a simple structure that doesn't require any power tools. All the supplies you need can be found at a craft or cake decorating store.

The only thing you might have to order ahead are the supplies for the glitter eyes (molds, glitter and isomalt). Of course if you don't feel comfortable making isomalt eyes or you don't have time to order, you can always hand paint the eyes with some food coloring and they will still be super cute!

The other specialty item is the edible artist decorative paint or the poppy paint. The reason I chose this paint is because it can paint on fondant and modeling chocolate really easily and has great coverage. Not very easy to achieve this bright pink color by coloring fondant alone. If you can't get the paint then I would suggest making the tentacles out of fondant as well as the body and then painting with with food coloring or you can color the fondant ahead of time with pink.

How To Make An Octopus Cake

To make our octopus cake the first thing you want to do is stack your layers of cake. First I trimmed off all the brown edges on the top, bottom and sides of the cakes so the slices look really nice when you cut into them. Then I layered them up with some easy buttercream colored bright yellow.

I place the cakes onto a 4" round cake board. I carved the stacked cake into a dome using a serrated knife. Then I crumb coated the cake and chilled it in the fridge until the buttercream was firm. Then I coated it again with another layer of buttercream and used my acetate smoother to smooth out any lumps or bumps. Back into the fridge to chill while we work on the cake structure.

Next I marble some of the white fondant with some blue food coloring and roll it out thin. I cover the board and trim off the excess. I then baked my board in the oven at 175F for 15 minutes with the door cracked and let it cool. This hardens the fondant so that it doesn't get dinged up when we're making the cake.

I used my styrofoam as a template and cut out a circle from the center of the cake board and removed the fondant. Wipe away the excess shortening. I cut my styrofoam down and cover it with aluminum foil tape to make it food safe. Then I glue the foam down to the board with some hot glue.  I glue the carved cake onto the styrofoam. Skewer the cake into the styro to keep it secure and trim off the excess.

Next we put a little buttercream on the underside of the cake board to make the gap between the cake and the styro a little bit smoother of a transition. Then I chill the whole thing until the buttercream is firm.

After the buttercream is firmed up you can cover it in your fondant and trim off the excess. Form your tentacles out of fondant or modeling chocolate and place onto the base of the cake. Adhere with a little bit of water.

Use a 3" circle cutter to cut out some of the fondant from the front of the octopus cake. Paint the surface of the cake with your edible artist decorative paints or food coloring. Place your sugar eyes into the cutouts. The last thing I do paint the surface of the octopus with some gold paint to make spots.

That it! That's all there is to making this adorable octopus cake. I hope you enjoyed this octopus cake tutorial and make sure you watch the full video below on how to make this cute beanie boo cake!

If you enjoyed this tutorial be sure to check out our others in the series

A Sculpted Turtle Cake With Beautiful Sugar Eyes And Golden Crackled Rainbow Skin Is Easy And Fun To Make

This sculpted turtle cake is the first cake in a series of six cake tutorials based off my daughter's favorite toys. In this tutorial I wanted to get you used to some basic sculpted cake techniques so we're going to do some very basic cake carving, some fun crackled fondant and molding rice cereal treats.  I love the look of the big head and flippers and the tiny body on this sculpted turtle cake. The sugar eyes have so much life and the gold crackled fondant works so great for the texture. This cake is really easy to make. A great beginners sculpted cake or a last minute order.

Materials List
Two 6" white cakes
One 6" dome white cake
One half sheet white cake
8 cups easy buttercream frosting
4 lbs fondant recipe
1 teaspoon confectioners glaze
2 tsp Non-toxic gold or edible gold (note: if you use the edible gold paint then you don't need confectioners glaze)
2 teaspoon everclear
Edible water color (electric blue, yellow)
Food coloring (blue, ivory)
Two glitter eyes
Graham cracker crumbs
8 oz marshmallows
1 lb rice cereal
¼ cup candy melts

Specialty Tools
Acetate smoother
Piping Bag
Large silicone sphere molds
Cabochon mold
Creme brulee torch

Sculpted Turtle Cake Ideas

I admit, cakes are my whole world but since I had my daughter my whole world basically revolves around her and her interests. Can you blame me? Who can say no to that face? Avalon's first obsession was finding nemo, then finding dory. She LOVED all those colorful animals and fish but especially loved the sea turtles.

In 2017 we had the chance to go to Maui for 10 days and Avalon got to see REAL sea turtles swimming in the ocean. She would ask me to watch the videos over and over again.

Last summer we took her to a carnival for the first time. Even though she was too scared to even go on the smallest rides, she really enjoyed playing some games with daddy. He won her this little knock-off turtle cake. I didn't really think it would be anything special at first but here we are a year later and it's still one of the "special buddies" that has to go night-night with us at snuggle time.

We also used this turtle as the inspiration for one of my best friends daughters 3rd birthday cake which just happened to be televised on Food Networks Ridiculous Cakes - Sink or Swim episode. It was HUGE and a little stressful to make but she loved it.

Even though I love the proportions of the stuffed turtle, I'm not a huge fan of the colors. For the crackled look and color inspiration, I was inspired by ANOTHER one of her turtle toys. A purse and stuffed turtle combo. I love the pretty blues, colorful rainbow and crackled metallic look and thought this would be perfect inspiration for a sculpted turtle cake.

How To Make A Sculpted Turtle Cake

Make sure you watch the video to see the whole process explained on how to make the sculpted turtle cake.

So to make this sculpted turtle cake, we're starting out with some cakes that are already pretty much the shape that we want them to be. Tort your two six inch cakes in half. Three of the layers will be for the shell. Torte the dome in half and add the last layer of the 6" cake. Fill them with buttercream and carve. Crumbcoat and chill.

Next, roll out some of your white fondant a little thicker than what you would to cover a cake (about ¼"). Torch the surface with your creme brulee torch. Then brush the surface with some confectioners glaze. If you don't have confectioners glaze you can use edible artist decorative paints gold, rainbow dust gold or poppy paints gold. Then combine your gold dust with some Everclear, lemon extract or rose water. Brush onto the surface and let it completely dry.

Once your fondant is dry you can roll it out to make it crackled! Cover your cakes with the crackled fondant and trim off the excess. Paint your cakes with some of your edible water colors. I diluted mine down with some extra Everclear so they where very transparent. I rolled out some marbled blue fondant for the shell and used a modeling tool to make the shell texture. Add on a little gold paint to make the shell pop!

Next I form my flippers by melting down some marshmallows and combining them with some rice cereal. I leave out the butter and add a little melted candy melts so they are really stable. Let the mixture cool for about 10 minutes then form into flippers. Let the flippers cool and then cover in a little buttercream. Then you can cover them in some more crackled fondant and paint them like you did the cakes.

Carve down your sheet cake to make a slight dome. I colored my buttercream ivory before frosting the sheet cake. Then I cover the buttercream with a thin layer of graham cracker crumbs. Color some more buttercream with some blue food coloring and pipe around the edges. Pipe some white buttercream around the top edge and then blend the two together with an offset spatula.

Insert a few straws into the cake and level off with scissors. These straws support the weight of the turtle head and body. Without them, the cakes would crush the cake below. Add your flippers to the sides of the turtle.

Cut out a circle from the turtle head using a cutter where the eyes will go. Insert your glitter eyes and finish then off with a little rope of fondant. This keeps the heavy glitter eye from falling out.

That's it! your sculpted turtle cake is complete! Be sure to watch the full video tutorial with instructions below!

If you loved this cake be sure to check out the other cakes in this series

Gold Crackled Fondant Is A Beautiful Texture For Many Different Cake Applications

Gold crackled fondant is so beautiful and easy to make! All you need is some fondant, non-toxic or edible gold paint, everclear or rose water, confectioners glaze, a blow torch and a rolling pin! I love the beautiful effect the gold crackle has on a simple tiered cake or you can use it on sculpted cakes for a reptile scale or weathered look. Check out my cute sea turtle cake tutorial to see how this gold crackled fondant looks on a sculpted cake.

I first fell in love with the gold crackled look from that amazing work from Angela Morrison. Her technique uses gumpaste over fondant and is really beautiful as well!

How To Make Gold Crackle

Making gold crackle is easier than you think. Here are the supplies that you're going to need.

Gold Crackled Fondant Materials List

Fondant
Creme brulee torch
Confectioners glaze
Corn starch
Non-toxic gold or edible gold  (note: if you use the edible gold paint then you don't need confectioners glaze)
Everclear, rosewater or lemon extract
Rolling pin
X-acto blade
Fondant smoother
Chilled Cake

How To Achieve Crackle Fondant On A Cake

First roll out your fondant to about half as thick as you normally would. Torch the surface with your creme brulee torch until the surface is nicely toasted. If there are any light spots, that place will not crackle.

Paint the surface with confectioners glaze then paint it with your gold/everclear mixture. Let dry completely to avoid the gold from flaking off when you crack it with your rolling pin.

Crackle your fondant by rolling it out with your rolling pin. Go in both directions. The more you roll, the bigger the cracks will be. I prefer to keep my cracks pretty small.

Now you can cover your cake in one piece or you can panel it depending on the final look you are going for.

Edible Crackle Paint

If you want to make a crackle that isn't gold, you can paint the surface of your fondant with food coloring and it will crackle the same way. I used black airbrush for this crackled fondant tutorial but you could use any type of food coloring. Just paint it on and let it dry. Edible artist decorative paints are great for this because it dries really fast.

For the inside of this cake I used my delicious vanilla cake recipe from scratch filled with easy buttercream frosting. I always make sure my cakes are fully chilled before covering with fondant.

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Gold Crackled Fondant

How to make a beautiful gold crackled texture on fondant. This recipe is enough to cover one 6" round cake plus a little leftover. 

Prep Time13 minutes mins

Cook Time10 minutes mins

Total Time23 minutes mins

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: 1

Calories: 3245kcal

Author: Elizabeth Marek

Ingredients

Gold Crackled Fondant

• 1 ½ lbs fondant
• 1 teaspoon confectioners glaze
• 2 teaspoon Non-toxic gold or edible gold

Instructions

Tools Needed

• Creme brulee torch

  Corn starch duster

  Rolling pin

  X-acto blade

  Fondant smoother

  Chilled Cake
• Roll out fondant to half as thick as your normally do. Torch the surface of the fondant until it's brown and bubbly. Let cool. 
• Brush the surface of the fondant with confectioners glaze. Combine your everclear and gold dust to make a paint. Paint over the glaze and let dry fully. At least 10 minutes. 
• Use a bench scraper to loosen the fondant from the table and then using a rolling pin, roll out your fondant to the desired thickness. The more you roll, the thicker the cracks will be. I like thinner cracks. 
• Cover your cake in one piece as you would normally or panel to keep the texture more intact. 

Video

Notes

Gold crackled fondant is so beautiful on a cake! Learn how to make two ways, traditional and paneled fondant. 

Nutrition

Serving: 1g | Calories: 3245kcal | Carbohydrates: 342g | Protein: 74g | Fat: 180g | Saturated Fat: 14g | Sodium: 224mg | Potassium: 1837mg | Fiber: 20g | Sugar: 272g | Vitamin A: 85IU | Calcium: 401mg | Iron: 12.9mg

Edible Glitter Eye Tutorial Made From Isomalt and Edible Glitter

These edible glitter eyes are perfect for using in your whimsical sculpted cakes. I first made these eyes for a gravity defying sea turtle cake for my friends daughter's birthday which HAPPENED to be filmed for an upcoming episode of Ridiculous Cakes on Food Network. Tune in on June 9th 10:30pm | 9:30c to see how the cake came together.

Beanie Boo Eyes

I was originally inspired to make these eyes from looking at my daughter's toys. She LOVES the pretty glitter eyes and has about a billion different versions. Seriously, she needs a beanie boo intervention. When my friends daughter asked for a beanie boo turtle cake for her 3rd birthday, I was stoked to finally figure out how to make these babies out of sugar!

I went through a LOT of trial and error. Cracked isomalt, bubbles, imperfections but finally, I figured out a process that was repeatable and pretty goof-up proof.

How To Make Edible Glitter Eyes

Materials

• 2" silicone sphere mold (large eyes) or 1 ½" silicone sphere mold for smaller eyes
• silicone cabochon mold
• simi cakes clear isomalt
• black food coloring
• silicone cups for melting isomalt
• edible glitter (or non-toxic is fine)
• creme brulee torch
• cake gloss
• nitrile gloves for hand protection
• silmat for protecting your work surface
• microwave for melting isomalt

Start by melting your clear isomalt. I melt mine for 30 seconds at first and then in 10 second increments until liquid. Make sure you wear hand protection because that isomalt gets HOT. Let the bubbles settle down. Color a small amount with a drop of black food coloring. Pour the black isomalt into the second from largest sphere from the cabochon mold. Let it cool then torch the surface so it's free of bubbles.

**tip** when re-melting isomalt, go in 10 second increments to prevent over-heating or burning. Never fill your cup more than half way to prevent getting burns.

Fill your silicone sphere mold halfway with clear isomalt and rotate the mold so the liquid coats the sides of the mold. This way you don't get a seam in the side of your eye. Let it cool.

Pour more clear isomalt into the remaining space of the mold half way. Place the black isomalt sphere in the center. Use the tip of a knife to position it so you don't burn your finger.

Sprinkle some edible glitter onto the surface. Let cool a couple of minutes then cover the surface with some more black isomalt. Let cool.

Remove the eye from the mold and torch the surface to remove the bubbles. Place eye in a spare container and spray with cake gloss to keep it shiny.

You can now use your awesome glitter eyes for your next cake project!

Let me know if you liked this tutorial in the comments or if you have any questions and don't forget to tune into Food Network and watch us create these awesome eyes for our giant gravity defying turtle cake!

Watch this video tutorial on how to make your own edible glitter eyes