How much do we love Orange is the New Black series on Netflix? I watched the entire season in two days. The writing, the acting are both superb. The characters are so wonderfully brought to life by an incredibly talented cast, I just can’t wait for season two to start. The series is funny, terrifying and heartbreaking all at the same time. It’s perfect.
I had the opportunity to chat with Laverne Fox a few weeks back at an event in NYC several of the cast member attended. She was gracious, fun and stunning in purple.
The characters are all so good, I can’t decide which character I like best in the series, but Crazy Eyes is definitely up there. I thought of her when I was creating this ice cream and knew, even though it was for a Halloween post, I had to dedicate this to her and the cast of Orange is the New Black.
Periodically when I have the time and inclination I make eyes out of leftover royal icing. For a past halloween treat, I dumped a bunch of them into a Monster Eyes Oreo Bark.
Recently, there seemed to be an unusual amount of these eyes staring at me from my pantry. It was time to put them to use. I used a fair amount up on ghost and bat cookies made for a UN Spouse Bake Sale at UNICEF last week, I still had way too many left over as well as lots of royal icing already ramped up to make new ones.
So. What’s a girl to do with too many eyeballs? Throw them in a festive halloween ice cream of course! I threw together some orange flavored ice cream, tinted it with food coloring and decorated the finished product with crazy eyes.
In a departure from making my usual icky Halloween treats, these are not too scary or gross. Definitely more kid friendly. Here’s looking at you.
For the Orange Ice Cream:
- 1 cup milk
- 2 cups cream
- 3/4 cup white granulated sugar
- 4 egg yolks
- 1 teaspoon orange extract
- Orange paste food coloring – optional
- In a medium saucepan heat milk, cream, sugar and extract until sugar is dissolved. Add food coloring if desired.
- Whisk egg yolks together and slowly pour the cream mixture into the yolks whisking quickly to temper the eggs.
- Scrape the tempered mixture back into the pan and reheat stirring occasionally until the mixture thickens a bit, coating the back of a wooden spoon.
- Remove from heat and strain.
- Cover with plastic wrap, making sure the wrap touches the top of the mixture.
- Refrigerate for at lease 3 hours or over night.
- Place in ice cream maker and follow manufacturers directions.
- Transfer the ice cream to a container and place in freezer until it hardens.
- Scoop the ice cream into bowls and decorate with royal icing eyes.
- Parchment paper
- Your favorite royal icing recipe (or use left over icing). I use this one from Bake at 350.
- Paste food coloring (black and then any other color eyes you want to make aside from white)
- Disposable pastry bags.
- #1 tip
- #2 tip(s)
- Fit the bags, one with #1 (for the black icing), the rest with #2 tips.
- Divide icing into however many color eyes you want to make.
- Make sure the consistency is not too watery. You need thick icing. Adding sifted powdered sugar will thicken it.
- Color one portion black and fill the #1 fitted pastry bag.
- Fill the other bags with the #2 tips with the other icing colors.
- Pipe several dots out onto the parchment paper (I make several different sizes.)
- Then use the black icing to make a dot in the middle of the previous dots.
- Repeat until you have as many eyes as you need.
- Let dry overnight.
- Store in airtight containers or zip lock bags.
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I think I'm the only one who doesn't watch that show! 😉 Fun cookies!