Any ideas on how to make them other than with royal icing? I don't really want a white look.
thanks for any help you may be able to offer me,
Mel
Colette does something where she boils up sugar solution (just sugar and water) until no more sugar will disolve in the water - then she hangs a fondant bead into it to get the sugar crystals to form on the bead to make it sparkly - I reckon you could do the same with long 'worms' of fondant and then dust a bit of glitter over them?
Bump.
I would like to find more info on the technique from Colette. Would you have anymore info.
Thanks.
Hmm makes me think some kind of hard candy technique would work. Like if you got the sugar boiled to a certain stage. Can't decide if you'd want soft ball or hard ball stage. Guess it would depend on what you're going to put the icicles on. I don't know anything about pulled sugar, but would be something to look into.
Thanks for all the ideas. I might experiment a bit and see what happens.
Mel
The Colette thing os in her book 'cakes to dream on' and I've told you all she says - she never likes to go into too much helpful detail! It's the same principle as making crystals as a kid, here's a web-page I found about it:
http://www.seawhy.com/xlsugar.html
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