Welcome to 'How To cook That' I am Ann Reardon Today we are making a gravity falls themed
eye balls and a hand in a jar
To make the eyeballs place some yellow, blue, green and more yellow jelly or jello if you're
on the other side of the world, crystals into a bowl and then add a tiny bit of instant
coffee to one of the yellows so we can make a brown colour.
Add cold water and stir well.
I'll put all of the recipe quantities that you need on the howtocookthat.net website
for you.
Repeat that with each of them.
Then once you've let them sit for a couple of minutes.
Microwave on high until it just starts to boil be careful that they don't boil over.
Take a sphere ice-cube tray, you can buy these online I'll put a link to where I got them
below.
And then add some colour to each one, if you use a measuring spoon you can easily get them
all the same size.
I am going to fill a big mold and a smaller one as well to give two sizes of eyeballs
just like you get in gravity falls jar.
Place them in the fridge to set.
To make the pupil you will need white chocolate, milk and gelatin and of course some black
colouring.
Add the gelatin to the milk, stir and yep let it sit for a couple of minutes.
Once the gelatin has softened microwave it on high until it just starts to boil.
Pour that over the white chocolate.
Push the chocolate down so it is all under the hot liquid so that it can melt it.
Then stir that well and add in some black food colouring and stir it again.
Put that into a piping bag fitted with a small round tip or you could just cut the corner
off a plastic bag if you don't have a piping bag.
Pipe a black pupil into the middle of each one and then put that in the fridge to set.
To make the white of the eye you will need vanilla yoghurt and gelatin.
Mix half of the yoghurt with the gelatine.
If you are vegetarian you can swap agar agar instead in this recipe.
You will just have to refer o your jar for how much you need.
If you want sweeter eyeballs you could use vanilla pudding here or you could just add
more sugar.
to the yoghurt.
Leave the gelatine to soften for a few minutes.
Then microwave until it is melted.
Pout that into the other half of the yoghurt and stir it really well.
Let it cool to room temperature so it doesn't melt the bits of the eyeballs that we have
already set.
Then pour it into the mold up to the fill line.
Then add the top one and push down and you'll see it is just starting to come out of the
top the means they are full.
And then add an elastic bands around to hold it tightly shut and place in the fridge to
set.
Once they are set gently ease the top off the mold and lift it up, look at those eyeballs.
Then place them into your jar arranging them so they are looking towards the front.
Then add the sale and dollar sign you can print those out from my website.
In gravity falls you can see a hand in a jar on the shelf behind the cash register.
To make a hand melt some white chocolate with a little bit of milk chocolate to give it
some colour.
Take a small glove, make sure it is not cotton lined or this wont work.
Pour in the melted chocolate.
Shake it down making sure all of the fingers are full and there are no air bubbles then
secure the top with an elastic band.
To make it set in a nice hand shape just rest the hand over a piece of fruit and that will
like hollow out the palm areas there.
Once it is set remove the band and cut away the glove.
I kind of feel like I am doing surgery here just taking off jeans of a broken leg or something.
And then place it in your jar.
Now if it doesn't fit you could go and buy a bigger jar and that would be the easiest
option.
Or if you are determined to make it fit like me you can shave off some of the chocolate
from the side and then when it still wont fit cut off a finger and re-attach it later.
You will also want to cut off the base off at the wrist so the hand stands upright in
the jar.
Now to add some details using your knife cut an indent where the fingernails should be.
Then cut some grooves where the knuckles are.
And add some details on the back of the hand indenting it down a bit in-between the knuckles.
Flip it over and add the crease marks on the fingers where the fingers bend and on the
palm of the hand add a few lines there too.
Add it into your jar and reattach the missing finger if you need to.
Now that your hand is in the jar you can add some yellow drink which is like the formaldehyde
that's the liquid that preserves these potted specimens.
If you're having a gravity falls party you could put this hand in a glass drink dispenser
which would be pretty disgusting but it would look good.
There is also another jar in the shop which has a brain in it, you can check out my old
Indiana jones video for how to make a cheesecake brain.
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Make it a great week and I'll see you all on Friday.
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