aquatthewailord:

Moving eye Duskull sugar cookies! 😀

I was inspired by Ann Reardon’s Camera Piñata Sugar Cookies . Instructions and template under the read more!

1) Eyes:

I started by making the eyeball disks. I used red hard candies and white royal icing but you can probably use all sorts of things: fondant discs, very thin cookies, melted gummy bears, M&Ms… Just make sure they aren’t sticky and that they’re bigger than the size you’re planning to make Duskull’s eye holes or else they might get stuck or fall out.

For my version of the eyes, I melted a few red candies in a saucepan and spooned small amounts onto a baking sheet. They weren’t super neat so I put them in a heated oven just long enough to spread out; keep a close eye on them or they might burn! I used a metal spatula to flatten out the smaller ones a bit as they were cooling.

Then, I used a small bit of royal icing to make the eyeball with a toothpick. Once the royal icing was completely dry, I covered the back with white royal icing as well, because the transparent candies weren’t super visible against dark backgrounds.

2) For the cookies, you’ll need chocolate sugar cookie dough and plain sugar cookie dough. I used this recipe for the chocolate sugar cookie parts and this one  for the plain ones. You can use any recipe as long as they keep their shape as they bake. You’ll need a lot more chocolate dough than plain dough, about 3 times as much.

3) Once your doughs are made, roll them out quite thinly, around 1/8 inch. I think I made mine a bit thick, especially the top two layers, which made the eyes less visible than I would’ve liked! Just make sure the middle layer is thick enough so the eyes you made can move once all layers are stuck together.

4) Once you have your doughs rolled out, you’ll need to cut out these pieces for each cookie:

– 1 skull out of plain cookie dough

– 1 back piece from the chocolate dough

– 1 middle piece from the chocolate dough without the tail and with a space cut out in the middle for the eye

I made a template that you can use. The grey parts should be cut out and the dotted lines on the left column are just to show where the skull will be, don’t cut them out! Whether you print these or draw your own, cut out a set from and “trace” them with a knife on the dough.

5) When you take the cookies out of the oven, they’ll still be soft. Use this opportunity to fix the shapes as best you can with a utensil if they need any adjustments.

6) Once the cookies are cooled, use royal icing or melted chocolate to glue the two chocolate layers together. Don’t use use too much or else they might leak into the “eye space”.

6) Place one eye into the hole, and see if it can roll around enough. If the space isn’t big enough, you can use a knife to carefully scrape along the edges. Make sure not to leave any crumbs in there.

7) Use chocolate or royal icing once again to glue the skull on top of the middle layer. Let the royal icing/chocolate set and you’re all done!