Hope this fits. It's definitely carp related, but here is my recipe which has been great for catfish, at least one confirmed carp and two other bigguns which were never revealed. I'm confident that if you put this on the carp, you will have success:

1/2 cup corn meal
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 TBsp Root Beer extract
Enough Cayenne to turn it orange
1/2 cup corn (frozen, canned, creamed) *if you use creamed corn, you will likely need more flour
1 egg
1 TBsp fish oil (optional)

I use an electric beater to mix until you have a well-mixed crumbly mess. It looks too dry, but when you press it together, you should get a nice dough ball. Kneed it for a while until your hands are clean, add some flour if it seems too wet. You're looking for something similar to a pizza dough consistency. Roll it into a snake. Pinch off pieces of the snake and roll into boilie sized balls or invest in a boilie baller. I pinch and roll.

****Here is an important detail. The batch size above works well for this cooking time in the microwave.****

If you want pop-ups, microwave for 1 minute. As noted above, if you make a larger batch, divide it or find the time that works for your batch size.

If you want sinkers, bring some water to a boil and dump em in. Remove when they float to the top.

Obviously experiment with different flavors and add some color if you think the majestic carp care. I have experimented with adding sugar, but it seems to compromise the integrity of the boilie and they seem to be easy prey for the intelligent carp who will pick it right off your line. So you may want to avoid adding jello or pudding. It'll still catch the dumb old catfish.

Pictured below are pop-ups. I didn't add the corn and forgot the fish oil. 2 batches. If you make them typical boilie-sized you should get about 24 per batch. I'm lazy.

Good carping All!

Those are some big boilies! If you don't like rolling them by hand, they do sell rolling tables specifically for boilie rolling. Using those makes it crazy fast and your boilies will be consistent.

Thanks for sharing the recipe!

I'm all about low-tech/low cost unless I make the tech myself, and then I'm ridiculous.

I just need to slow down or find a better way, like a little cookie cutter or something. I looked at sausage guns. Those suckers are expensive for what you get. I see a caulk gun and some PVC in my future.

Lol, the rolling tables aren't too bad but you're right about the guns. If I made my own boilies more often than I do they'd be more than worth it IMO. I made about 25lbs of boilies without tables or guns and I absolutely do not recommend that to anyone.

Cinnamon today.

I might look at getting a Play-Doh factory. Same thing, but not sure how durable. Wonder if there is a market for star-shaped boilies...

Boilies are practically never used in our waters so the shape isn't necessarily that important. Just know that you're either going to be using the boilies as a "pick up" or getting the fish used to them by chumming over a few days or in tight to your hookbait.

I did chocolate with fish oil today. I'm going to use that as a wet paste to roll over my hair rigged cinnamon or root beer boilies. I have a spot where the carp already love my recipes.

The first time I went there, my line kept getting snapped and the second time, I couldn't keep my bait on the hook. I just need to find the magic combination.

I haven't really seen much action with the hair rig, but I got some official carp hooks, so I'm giving them another try with the "proven" method.

They loved the chocolate, but I needed to cook it. It wouldn't stay on the hook. Ugh!

I may have a problem and be in need of an intervention. I can't stop making boilies no matter how badly they turn out.

I haven't made a batch of legit boilies, meaning they were boiled, so I tried that today with some spicy fishy cherry boilies.

The pencil is there for scale.

These cherry ones were solid. Lots of bites, stayed on the rig, and 3 catches (albeit catfish) on a hair rig. Finally some success!