sugar skulls

http://mexicanfood.about.com/od/sweetsanddesserts/ht/candyskulls.htm

Ingredients

2 1/2 cups sugar

1 egg white from an extra large egg, or 2 from small eggs

1 teaspoons light corn syrup

1 teaspoon vanilla

Cornstarch, for handling dough



1. Sift sugar into a large mixing bowl.
   
2. In another bowl, mix the egg whites, corn syrup and vanilla.
3. Slowly pour the liquid into the powdered sugar. Mix with your hands until a sandy dough forms.
4. Form dough into a ball. At this point you can continue or you can refrigerate dough for later use.
5. Lightly dust surface with cornstarch as well as your hands. Pinch off a heaping tablespoon of dough and shape it into a skull.

I had this soft plastic skull ice cube tray, so I wanted to test it out and see if I could make candy skulls using this as a mold.

Here are some of my skulls.  The smaller ones are the ones I made with the plastic ice mold.  I didn't think that they turned out that great so I molded some larger skulls by hand..

We decorated the skulls with black sugar icing...

feliz dia de los muertos!