Sugar Hearts
Ingredients
Scale
- 1/2 cup granulated white sugar
- 1 tsp water
- 1–2 drops of red food color (depending on how red you want your sugar hearts) I used Americlor in Red Red
- I used a small heart-shaped cookie cutter to mold the sugar
Instructions
- Put sugar in a bowl.
- Add water and mix well. The sugar should look like sand when you’re building a sand castle.
- If the sugar is too wet, it will be hard to hold up its shape after molding. If the sugar is too dry, it will not harden after it has dried.
- Add food color and mix well again.
- Trace the heart shape of cookie cutter onto a cardboard.
- Cut the heart shape out from cardboard. Cut it a little smaller so that it can go through the cookie cutter.
- Scoop some wet sugar into the cutter, press with finger until they get firmed and packed in the cutter.
- Place the heart shaped cardboard on the top of the cutter. Slowly lift the cutter up and push the sugar down in a baking pan (you may want to oven-dry it later)
- You may air-dry overnight Or you may use a 200 ºF (90 ºC) oven to dry it for 5 minutes.
Find it online: https://www.thepeachkitchen.com/2015/02/sugar-hearts/