Halloween Eyeball Ice Cubes
Each glass holds three ice spheres with the blueberry right at the surface, in a pale drink with a striped straw. Around them, blueberries, a green apple, a pear and a carved pumpkin.
Round ice balls with a blueberry inside for a pupil: floating in a glass they look like eyeballs, and they are the easiest way to dress up a Halloween drinks table. They are made in a silicone sphere ice mold, the kind you fill through a hole at the top. The blueberry floats and ends up right against the surface of the ice, in plain view. They take 10 minutes of work and at least 4 hours in the freezer, and they show best in pale, clear drinks such as apple- or pear-flavored water.
Ingredients
- 6 large fresh blueberries
- Filtered water, or boiled and cooled water (about 300 ml)
- Apple- or pear-flavored water, to serve
Method
- 1
Open a silicone sphere ice mold, the kind with a fill hole at the top, and put a blueberry in each half.
- 2
Close the mold firmly, making sure the halves lock together, and fill each cavity with water through the hole. The blueberry rises and rests against the top: that is what puts the pupil at the surface of the ice.
- 3
Set the mold on a level surface in the freezer for at least 4 hours, or overnight, until the spheres are frozen solid.
- 4
Open the mold carefully and serve the eyeballs right away, in glasses or in a pitcher of a pale drink.