Googly Eye Shaker Cookies
These wiggly and jiggly googly eye cookies are so much fun! Learn how to stack cookies and fill with isomalt to make these wiggle eyes that really google around! Beginner Friendly!
Servings 12 Cookies
Cost 10
Equipment
- Cookie Scribe can instead use popsicle sticks or toothpicks
- Silica Gel Packets optional, but good in humid environments
Ingredients
- 1 batch Sugar Cookie Dough use your favorite recipe
- 1 batch Royal Icing use your favorite recipe
- Neon Brite Blue Gel Food Color
- Neon Green Gel Food Color
- Golden Yellow Gel Food Color
- Isomalt
Instructions
- Make your favorite roll out sugar cookie recipe. Roll out dough 4mm thick and cut out a solid circle for each cookie and place on a baking sheet. Bake the cookies until done and transfer to a wire cookie cooling rack as soon as stable. These are your bottom cookies.
- Trace your 1.6" cookie cutter onto a piece of paper. Trace the 2.6" cookie cutter centered around the first. Cut the circles out and use as a guide to cut the cookies identically.
- Use your paper guide to cut out one dozen 4mm thick (these are your top cookies) and one dozen 6mm thick (these are your middle cookies) round with holes in the center.Bake according to your recipe directions and transfer to a wire cookie cooling rack as soon as they are stable enough to move.
- Tint a ball of dough, approximately the size of a golf ball black using gel food color. Roll to a thickness of 2mm and cut out 12 1-inch circles. Bake until cooked. Immediately transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Store in a sealed container until ready to use.
- Divide, tint, and bag royal icing in the colors neon blue, neon green, golden yellow, and white.
- Ice the center of the bottom cookie with yellow, green, or blue icing. Gently place the middle cookie onto the wet icing. Set aside to dry several hours or overnight.
- Melt the isomalt in a saucepan on the stove or in an oven safe glass measuring cup in the microwave to 338℉. Allow to rest on the counter until the temperature cools to 300℉ and there are no visible bubbles.
- Place the cookies onto smooth pieces of aluminum foil. Gently pour the melted isomalt into the centers. Allow the fully set, anywhere between 5-10 minutes.
- Using white royal icing make a small dot on each pupil cookie. Allow a few minutes to begin to set and then place one in each eye cookie.
- Squeeze a line of white royal icing onto the backside of the top cookie and place on top of the middle cookie. Ice the cookie portion of the tops with white royal icing. Allow to harden several hours or overnight before stacking.
Notes
Melted isomalt can cause second degree burns. Wear protective gloves.