Isomalt

Sugar Work By Jessgareth123 Updated 24 Jul 2019 , 1:38pm by SandraSmiley

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Jessgareth123 Posted 22 Jul 2019 , 6:00pm
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Can I put fresh flowers in Isomalt? I've seen people make fresh flower lollys with no issues, and if so should I use fresh flowers or dried?

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-K8memphis Posted 23 Jul 2019 , 8:06pm
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i’ve never done it — but I have worked with isomalt and I would be sure that a fresh flower would shrivel and die when it came into contact with hot syrup — wouldn’t it? 

and my other question is since you wouldn’t want someone to eat a dried flower encased isomalt — it would need to be removed which kind of makes you think — why even try for real flowers — but then on the other hand — isomalt can cause bad gastric issues if eaten so —- idk — I googled this lightly and didn’t see anything interesting —

but if it’s a real thing — I wanna know more! (but I just don’t know how it could be) 

well one possible way would be to make something like a hollow orb in two pieces and enclose a flower in there — but a fresh flower is gonna die no?

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SandraSmiley Posted 24 Jul 2019 , 1:38pm
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My feeling is the same as -K8memphis, it seems unlikely that fresh flowers would hold up to the extreme heat of melted Isomalt and yes, it would die, even if encased in a bubble of Isomalt.

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