How to Apply Icing to Sugar Skulls

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"AMANDA CLAIRE: So when you decorate these, kind of the traditional way to do it is to do a lot of fine line work. So, you see I've kind of already done one here and it kinda has this very whimsical look to it. It has--I've used three colors here. You can use more or less if you want to. But I've really tried to follow the contours of the mold. I mean I've outlined the eyes. I've kind of defined the teeth. I've used couple different colors in the eyes and actually put little eyeballs in there and just kind some zigzag and squiggles kind of around the eyes and each one can be different. I'm going to do another one right here. Again, you just want to kind of do it with an even pressure. Don't squirt too much icing at a time. I often like to start out by just like outlining the eyes. So, I'll do that here in pink on this new one. So, here I got line one and then--okay. So, I kinda have the eyes outlined, so that's good. And then, I don't know, let's see. I'm going to maybe do the teeth in a different color. So, maybe I'll kind of do sort of maybe I might do kinda with a little floral pattern on this. Mexico has this kind of fun tradition of really kind of brightly colored sort of whimsical things with a lot of kind of decorative elements to them. So, you can really be quite creative with kind of a decorating process. Here, I'm just going to put like a little star burst on the head and I'll cover that with some more colors like so. Now, there's my pink and let's get another color on them. Maybe, I'll use the green now, and let see. Maybe I will do the--just kinda clean the icing off the tip, and I'm going to just kind of maybe outline the mouth. Here is the kinda top and bottom of the mouth there. And then I'm going to--oops, there's the middle. And then I can do sort of some teeth like this. Okay. It's all right, not the best, but I put a lot of them. And I'm going to kind of pipe some of the insides of these little eyeballs. Maybe just do some little kind of polka dots here, like this. Just kind of whatever you want to do. I mean it's really up to you and I might just want to put one more color in there. Here. I'll take the blue. With the blue, I can do just a really fine line, and I'll just maybe pipe line little nose in there. Maybe like some little, I don't know, little kind of zigzags around the eyes like this. It kinda gives it some--a little bit more flare. And I don't know maybe just kind of contour the top of the skull like this. And there we go. Now, I've got two. And each one is different. Each one kind of has its own feel and you just keep going. "