Comments on: Make Edible Sugar Skulls

By: fresita

fresita — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:54:07 +0000

I have a couple of questions
I want to make sugar skulls for my students but I am still debating what to do. One of the recipes I saw uses moraine powder but I am not sure if that makes them really hard to bite into.

If I use the recipe on this website and I let them sight for 5 hrs or bake them, will they get hard enough to hold its shape but not too hard to bite into?

Would royal icing be the only type of icing we could use because it hardens? I dont think fronting would really work, right?
Hope my question makes sense

By: heather

heather — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 18:42:49 +0000

In reply to elissa.

@Elissa, you want to use an icing that is designed to harden – Royal Icing should work. http://www.wilton.com/recipe/Royal-Icing

By: elissa

elissa — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 17:20:40 +0000

quick question…if i use icing to decorate is there a way to get that to harden as well? hoping to do this as a craft and then send home with the kids… not sure how to do that if the frosting stays wet? ideas?
Thank you!!

By: jojo

jojo — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:52:04 +0000

Can you make them without the mold like with you’re hands?

By: Jez

Jez — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 01:30:20 +0000

Thanks for the idea!!! Small comment: Sugar skulls are meant to be eaten

By: Rosemary Kojis

Rosemary Kojis — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 08:04:30 +0000

This is Fantabulous!! Going to make an extra trip to my $ store tomorrow!!

So easy & fun! Thank~you!

By: Miss Kelly

Miss Kelly — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 22:59:11 +0000

I am a teen librarian and I use the ice cube trays and made melt and pour soap and plaster of paris molds that the teens decorated with markers and paint. Big hit.

By: Jackie

Jackie — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:58:07 +0000

Hi Heather
I love these, and the video is neat! So easy a 4 year old kid can do it :) I will be trying it with my son next Halloween.

Definitely “thumbs up”!

By: heather

heather — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 15:05:54 +0000

In reply to Erin. @Erin, thanks for reporting on your findings. Maybe just a drop of water at a time until it feels like damp sand?

By: Erin

Erin — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 08:10:31 +0000

just tried to do this with splenda. not really working. if you use the recipe here it just turns very syrupy. I’m sure one could experiment to get the proportions just right, but I just don’t have that kind of patience.