Receta: Sugar Skulls
Ingredients
• 2 cups powdered sugar
• 1 egg white
• 1 tablespoon corn syrup
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/3 cup cornstarch
• Food coloring of different colors
• Candy sprinkles
• 1 fine paintbrush
• Candy sticks
Preparation
Sift sugar into a large mixing bowl. In another bowl, mix the egg white, corn syrup and vanilla.
Slowly pour the liquid into the powdered sugar. Mix with your hands until a sandy dough forms.
Form dough into a ball. At this point you can continue or you can refrigerate dough for later use.
Lightly dust the surface of a cooking board with cornstarch as well as your hands. Pinch off a heaping tablespoon of dough and shape it into a skull.
Press the candy sticks into the bottom of each skull. If you’re using them, lightly press colored sprinkles into the soft candy.
Let the candy dry overnight.
Use the paint brush with food coloring to decorate the skulls when dry. You can also use icing (one that will dry hard) with a fine tip to decorate them.
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Of course, here we have sugar skulls all of the time, as well as pan de muerto and other ghastly treats, but once a year the rest of the world joins us in our morbid state of mind.
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