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Step 3Prepare Candy Mold
If you have a candy mold that you'd like to use, you're good to go! Give them a quick spray of cooking oil, and get started.
If you don't, powdered sugar or even cornstarch will make a great substitute. I started out by trying to make little mounds of candy on waxed paper, without any kind of mold formation at all. Fast-forward to FAIL.
Then I remembered Mongpoovian's technique in making Chocolate Liquor Cordials which I had immediately filed away in my mind as "too time consuming!" Well, how wrong I was.
I used powdered sugar instead of starch for two reasons. One, I knew I wanted to lightly coat them in sugar once they were done. Two (and more importantly) it's what I had on hand. I didn't dry it the way Mongpoovian's Instructable demonstrates because I didn't read that part.
It was super fun to make these molds by pouring powdered sugar into a pie pan, flattening it out with my hand, then using the bottom of a food coloring bottle to make indentations. That was it!
The best part is that the candy was slightly repelled by the sugar and actually flowed into each of the divots on its own, which is worth the price of admission just to watch!
If you don't, powdered sugar or even cornstarch will make a great substitute. I started out by trying to make little mounds of candy on waxed paper, without any kind of mold formation at all. Fast-forward to FAIL.
Then I remembered Mongpoovian's technique in making Chocolate Liquor Cordials which I had immediately filed away in my mind as "too time consuming!" Well, how wrong I was.
I used powdered sugar instead of starch for two reasons. One, I knew I wanted to lightly coat them in sugar once they were done. Two (and more importantly) it's what I had on hand. I didn't dry it the way Mongpoovian's Instructable demonstrates because I didn't read that part.
It was super fun to make these molds by pouring powdered sugar into a pie pan, flattening it out with my hand, then using the bottom of a food coloring bottle to make indentations. That was it!
The best part is that the candy was slightly repelled by the sugar and actually flowed into each of the divots on its own, which is worth the price of admission just to watch!
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Feb 14, 2012. 8:20 PMApxeon
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yes, what can you do with the leftover confectioner's sugar?
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Aug 9, 2011. 12:59 PMOrIsIt
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What do you do with the leftover sugars
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