I have been watching tons of sugar making videos and today I tried all of them and failed 10 X 🤣🤣 to finally, only by the Grace of God I figured it out.
Before you start, let me remind you how dangerous is hot sugar. Disclaimer: I am not responsible for anything and you take your own risks.
IMHO the thermometer, heat information and time on how long you should cook your sugar is not matter because everyone has different stove, also humidity level and even candy thermometer fooled me almost all the time.
Even the amount of water and sugar doesn't matter that much. The more water you use, the longer you have to cook it, that's all.
if the water is too little, it might burn before even get into the syrup you want.
also use deeper enough teflon pan because teflon pan is easier to clean and when the sugar becomes syrup they expanded so deep teflon pan is safer. I used shallow teflon pan because I needed to show it to you on the video. It's not the safest thing to do.
Before you start to cook your syrup, prepare silicone mat for the mold, a tall glass, and paper under it to catch the melted syrup later.
let's start with 1 cup of sugar, 75 ml water and 2 TBS corn syrup.
Without corn syrup or glucose syrup, you should never start this project. I tried to substitute it with vinegar, lemon juice, honey but it never could become clear glossy hard candy.
the nice news is...when you failed, if your sugar is never hardened or become crystal, you can use it again by mixing it with water again as long as you didn't burnt it yet. Add also some corn syrup to the reuse sugar is recommended.
So dissolve those 3 ingredients and if necessary you can turn the heat on low.
before they are completely dissolved, DON'T increase the heat.
once they are completely dissolved, turn the heat on medium high and keep mixing and with your mixing spoon, scoop the bubbly sugar up and count to ten.
please pay attention that I say count to 10, NOT COUNTING FOR 10 SECONDS. They are totally different
scoop the bubbles from the MIDDLE of the teflon pan not from the edges of the pan.
When the big bubbles from the center of the pan is dissapeared in 5 counting, get ready...you are almost there...
when the bubbles dissapeared in 8 counting you are in soft candy stage. This is good for making DRAGON BEARD / COTTON CANDY
when the bubbles remain on 9 counting, turn off the heat but don't move the pan from the stove. Use the remaining heat...
when the bubbles remain on 10 counting, pour onto the prepared flat position silicone mat.
pour in the middle to make a nice round puddle.
if you try to pour it around it will make uneven thickness so just keep pouring it in the middle and make sure don't let the liquid sugar syrup overflowed your silicone mat
hot sugar is dangerous but actually it doesn't hardened that fast. Plus you can always place it back on the pan, add water and corn syrup and start all over again so don't panic and keep calm.
some people like to move the hot syrup around the silicone mat and I found this making uneven thickness.
I found that the best way is wait until it's not so liquid to carry them and place them on top of a prepared tall cup.
prepare the tall cup on top of parchment paper or something to catch the melted excess sugar.
you then can use cloth pins to shape your silicone mat into however wrinkles you desire.
the sugar actually don't hardened that fast so I had fun shaping them. I also pull the edges to the shape I want, even use scissor to cut some edges and later when hardened and out of the silicone mat mold, I actually able to use torch and carefully reshaped them a bit.
so let them sit and cool enough before you pull the silicone mat out of them slowly.
place them in the freezer for 30 minutes help hardened them and if your area humidity is high place them on the tall cup up side down until when you are ready to use them.
on my video I showed you how I shaped my silicone mat with cloth pins then poured syrup on them. This is harder to get a good shape a.k.a the shape will become ugly so don't do it this way.
once the sugar sail is completely hardened you can paint brush some edible silver and gold dust and it will make them even more beautiful.
I can't wait until my silver and gold dust arrives from Amazon and to finally place this sugar art on top of my cake 🤣🤣🤣
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