Okay, my niece's birthday is in March and I want to do a Dora princess castle with a river around it. (I got the idea for one of the Challenges where they had to make castles.)
Anyway, for the river I wanted to use poured sugar - how one of the contestants did on the Challenge. I have never worked with poured sugar and don't even have a recipe. I have found a few recipes online and one here, but I don't know which is the easiest/foolproof way -if one exists that is.
So if anyone have a recipe/suggestions I would appreciate it!
Oh, and what kind-of food coloring would I use? I use the Wilton kind for my cakes, would it be the same of something else?
Thankseveryone!
Hi;
Pour sugar recipes are simple. Just sugar and water do not need an acid. I do not know how big your cake will be at its base. But you have several options available to you.
You can pour the sugar onto foil and let it harden leaving the foil in place it will give it a water appearance. You can pour it into a cake pan lined with foil is another option. Or you can pour it onto a silpat and let it run at will until it hardens.
You can use the Wilton food coloring I do. You can either add it while its boiling or after you pour it in your mold up to you. Pouring onto foil will give you a better water like appearance.
If you add the food coloring add it at about 240-260 I say this because the Wilton Food colors are water based and you want the water too boil off.
I am sure Chef K may have some other ideas. Do not grease your foil if you want it to stay in place.
Here is a poured sugar recipe:
Boiled Sugar Recipe No Acid
Ingredients:
4 pounds or 2.2 kilos of granulated sugar.
2 pounds or 32 ounces of water (H2O).
Bring to boil to desired temp use as directed. Recipe can be used for poured sugar and rock sugar. If using for rock sugar stop boiling at 280F. Poured sugar can be taken to 305F for optimum structural stability in poured or cast pieces.
when you boil granulated sugar the impurities float to the top, so you will need a skimmer...you can find one at a chinese store, the kind you use to removed fried items from hot grease.
you have to remove the scum that raises to the top. You can 'crumble some foil making a "RIVER" and pour the boiled sugar...you can use the sugar without any color, and when you have your sugar poured, you can place a few drops of different color blues and with a skewer you can marble the blues into the sugar, you can even marlbe in some silver lustre dust!
If you wish to remove the sugar from your foil, just make sure that you use a "spray" greaser for cooking like pam.
Thats what I did for my poured sugar bases and I still got the crinkle looking bottom with the gold threads...it looked like clear marble...a very pretty look.
if you want an opaque look you can use the whitener
Just make sure that your colors have no acids in them and if you use the powdered food colors...dissolve in a little water...Use just enough water to dissolve the powder and continue to cook your sugar if you're going to add the color while you're cooking.
HTH
Here are Jeff's tutorials on working with sugar. Some excellent advise from a sugar artist.
http://cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-63041.html
Hi there... I am a newbie and would like to learn more about this art. As a beginner are there any suggestions how to get started. I have started decorating cakes 6 months ago to release my creative energy and love the challenge ... and its taken off. I have been busy ever since. Each project is an improvement of my skills. I would like to impress my clients with this unique and distinctive art. I dont see any pictures anywhere on this site... am I just missing it? (Still learning to navigate)
treatsonthego,
i have posted 2, and there are a lot more to be seen at my site www.kincaellan.com in the gallery or www.martinchiffers.com as well.
Other than that there really isn't very much out there. Even with google and other search engines it
s hard to find examples and images.
All right back to work, only 50 more pages to finish up and then the instructional book is off to the printer.
www.kincaellan.com
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