Halloween Shenanigans

This year, Sally was invited to a Halloween party and what better way to celebrate than bringing fun Halloween treats?  Of course, Sally and I ended up with more of a gory finger food than the cutesy cupcakes you'd expect.  The recipe was for eyeballs... and while Sally with her medical knowledge proclaimed these to be "eyeballs on crack... with glaucoma," I proclaim them delicious.  And a great way to decorate your kitchen with bloody dishes in the sink and red fingerprints on the drawers.

Red Velvet Cake Eyeballs
adapted from The Cake Mistress, here
Ingredients
1 box of red velvet cake mix (or make your own cake)
1 can of cream cheese frosting (or make your own frosting*)
white chocolate (~16 oz.)
some M&Ms (about 50)
red food coloring (preferably gel)

1. Make the red velvet cake.
2. Let cake cool.  Make frosting if necessary.
3. Mix together cake and frosting.  Mixture will be quite gooey.
4. Roll into balls and place in fridge or freezer. Cool for at least 4 hours. Re-roll balls halfway through to get a more spherical and less lumpy shape.
5. Melt white chocolate (either in microwave or in double boiler).
6. Dip red velvet cake balls in chocolate.  Place M&M on top before chocolate cools.
7. Decorate with red food coloring after chocolate has cooled.

 step 4: re-rolling cake balls

*Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe
1 pkg. Cream Cheese (8 oz.)
1/2 c. butter (1 stick)
2 to 3 cups powdered sugar

Mix the cream cheese and butter together (helps if they are at room temperature).  Then add the powdered sugar and mix until combined.