How to Make Edible Sugar Diamonds
Flowers are nice, but diamonds are a much better gift. This is true in life, and also true when it comes to decorating cakes and cupcakes. Edible sugar diamonds look and feel like real gems but taste like candy. These sugar jewels add an elegant touch to shower and wedding cakes and make birthday cupcakes into a special treat. Buy jewel-shaped molds to create sparkling cake toppers that look like the real thing. Does this Spark an idea?
Things You'll Need
- Isomalt
- Food scale
- Measuring cup
- Heavy duty pot
- Plastic spoon
- Silicone food brush
- Candy thermometer
- Ladle
- Silicone gem molds
Instructions
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Measure 3 lbs. of isomalt into a heavy duty pot. Add about 6 oz. of bottled or filtered water. Mix the water in thoroughly. You will know when you have enough water when the isomalt looks like wet sand.
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Place the pan on the stove and turn the heat on high. Stir the mixture to help it melt more quickly.
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Wash down the crystals from the side of the pot using a silicone brush. Wet the brush in the melted isomalt, then brush down the sides of the pot.
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Place a candy thermometer on the side of the pan as soon as the mixture begins to boil.
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Remove the pot from the burner when the thermometer reads 333 degrees Fahrenheit. Set the pot onto a damp towel.
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Ladle melted isomalt into silicone molds shaped like diamond halves. Wait one minute until the isomalt begins to set. Pick up one half of the mold and set it on top of the other half to stick the two halves of the gem together. Fit the notch in the top and bottom half together to get the mold halves in the right place.
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Wait 10 minutes until the gem has hardened. Open the mold and pop out the edible diamond.
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Tips & Warnings
If you want to make colored gems, add food coloring when the isomalt cools to about 310 degrees Fahrenheit.
References
- Photo Credit Creatas/Creatas/Getty Images
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for you Anne diamonds are forever.
