Eyeballs in Jelly!

While on the topic of gross Halloween treats, I thought I'd quickly share what I made last year. All in all a much more successful eating experience!

This is what I did:

Make up a batch of greengage jelly or yellow jelly and add a few drops of green food colour, your choice really.
Take a canned Litchi and stuff a cherry (bottled) into the cavity to create an 'eyeball'
Put the juice that comes from the bottled cherries in a pan, bring to the boil and thicken with cornflour - add a bit of sugar to taste if you like and then wait for it to cool.
Layer spoon fulls of jelly, Litchis and cherry syrup in a glass.
Enjoy!

This is really effective if you make up the eyeballs just before you eat it, otherwise the Litchis tend to go purple and they don't look as good as when they are first done!

These really went down a treat last year!

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