Eye-Popping Good

A fun and eerie Halloween treat. Not too hard to get a eye-catching result.

Pretty simple set up.
You will need twizzler pull and peels
Cake pops, candy melts and
Sprinkles (optional)

The basis of this treat is a cake pop. First of make a few cake pops a little smaller than golf ball size. Any flavor will do. These are vanilla. To make a cake pop you basically bake one cake from a box. Follow directions and let cool.
Crumble up cake mix into fine crumbs in a bowl.
Put in a couple heaping table spoons of icing. Mix that together and keep adding icing until you get the consistency of a pliable dough.
Roll those in to balls.
Dip a sucker stick into candy melts.
Put the stick in the center of a ball. let the candy set.
Dunk the whole ball into candy melts and gently tap off excess candy.
You will work with the cake pop as the candy sets. ( You need the soft candy to be wet so you can "glue" on the licorice. )
It takes a little practice but you'll fly through them once you get the hang of it.

These "blood vessels" and "eye muscles" are actually, you guessed it pull and peel licorice.
Try to keep 3 or 4 in a bunch, pull off both ends so that the end loses that blunt look.
Then gently peel apart the top of a bunch.
This piece should be about 2-3" long.
Then gently press this into the gooey candy melts and hold for a bit until it stays put.
Do 3 bunches per eye, and add a few single strands for more detail.

The pupil and Iris are also made from candy melts.
I just spooned a little on the top of each eye,
first in green. then sprinkled green sprinkles on that,
then top with a little dot of black melted candy.
You could also press an upsidedown chocolate chip in for the pupil.
Then add a couple tiny white dots of candy for the highlights of the eye.
Let all the candy set then you are finished!