The Mexican festival of Day of the Dead is celebrated this weekend. The children made these traditional sugar skulls. They are easy to make. Just mix about 3 cups of sugar with an egg white. Then pack the sugar mixture into skull moulds. You can scrape off excess sugar with a credit card! Turn them out and bake in a cool oven (about 90C) to dry them out. Use icing pens to decorate them.
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Mixing sugar and egg white |
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Pressing mixture firmly into the moulds |
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Excess sugar scraped off |
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Turned out skulls ready for decorating |
We made a few chocolate ones as well.
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