Ribbon By Robert Stanley

I finally managed to fix photos of the recipes that I did in this period, it would be useful to them before Christmas but I did not have time! Inspired by recipes that I had put in previous post I made several culinary gifts, which I think makes the experiment more with less effort and cost is just that: the home-made sugar lumps! You can color, flavor and trying ice molds less "classic" can be made in different shapes!

I can not find the link of the blog where I saw that you could do the lumps in the house, there used the small flower-shaped molds: molds for butter (do not know what they are!), I used the normal ice molds. [EDIT: I found the link! Here it is: chocolate cinnamon sugars.]
But the idea of color sugar I got it from here .



sugar cube VANILLA

PREP TIME:

° 10 min for approximately prepare sugar.
° 2 days (maybe just one day if placed on a radiator) off.


INGREDIENTS:


Sugar
Food coloring
vanilla flavor (or whatever you prefer)
Water

MATERIALS:
Stencils for ice.

PROCEEDINGS


° If, like me, you have the dye powder, diluitene a bit 'with a few drops of water.


° Pour a few drops of coloring and flavoring vanilla sugar and mix well with a spoon so that the color becomes uniform if it serves to add color or white sugar to adjust the color.


° Add very little water to wet sugar at a time, stirring with a spoon until the lumps are formed.


· Press very fine sugar in the molds and put on a radiator to dry a full day.
I start I had left to air dry after a day but the lumps crumbled because they were still wet ... so I figured it would take something would help them to dry. So all my lumps have "rested" 2 days, but I think putting them directly on the heater you can save time!


° Turn out a lump, make sure it is dry, then unmold by inverting all the stencil.
In those blue shows the difference between the base and the tip wiped dry air through contact with the heat.


RESULT: