¡Calaveras!
Ahh, fall, when a young man's fancy turns lightly to thoughts of weird, dead things...
I'm making little Mexican sugar skulls once again:
The official recipe I have says to use one cup of granulated sugar, one teaspoon of meringue powder, and one teaspoon of warm water (and you could also use an eggwhite, if you wanted to get fussy). I found that I had to use at least a tablespoon of meringue powder to get them to hold together properly, and enough water to give it the texture of good sandcastle sand. Quite a bit more than a teaspoon each. Also, the mixing bowl has to be absolutely grease-free; I hit it down with glass cleaner first. You mix the meringue powder and sugar in your greaseless bowl with a wooden spoon, then pack it into a skull-shaped mould. I'm using purpose-made moulds from Nomad, but honestly I think the inside of any commercially-available injection-moulded plastic skull toy woudld work equally well if you sawed it in half at the mould line.
Tonight, these are drying in the oven with the light on, which trouble4hire has found heats the inside to about 90 degrees. Tomorrow, with any luck, I shall decorate them in fabulous coloured icing.
I'm making little Mexican sugar skulls once again:
The official recipe I have says to use one cup of granulated sugar, one teaspoon of meringue powder, and one teaspoon of warm water (and you could also use an eggwhite, if you wanted to get fussy). I found that I had to use at least a tablespoon of meringue powder to get them to hold together properly, and enough water to give it the texture of good sandcastle sand. Quite a bit more than a teaspoon each. Also, the mixing bowl has to be absolutely grease-free; I hit it down with glass cleaner first. You mix the meringue powder and sugar in your greaseless bowl with a wooden spoon, then pack it into a skull-shaped mould. I'm using purpose-made moulds from Nomad, but honestly I think the inside of any commercially-available injection-moulded plastic skull toy woudld work equally well if you sawed it in half at the mould line.
Tonight, these are drying in the oven with the light on, which trouble4hire has found heats the inside to about 90 degrees. Tomorrow, with any luck, I shall decorate them in fabulous coloured icing.