Tips for Molding Sugar Skulls

Video Transcript

"So you just kind of keep doing this and it just kind of becomes like mass production. I mean here we go, I've got one. I've just made one, and I'm going to lay it down on the cookie sheet, because I like to use the oven to kind of dry these. Not with very high heat, I'm going to use very low heat. And mass production, I'm going to just keep putting sugar in and I'm going to pack it down like I showed you before. Get it nice and kind of tightly packed in there with the back of my spoon. I'm going to scrape it, get my playing card, flip, jiggle and there we go. There's another one, two. Just like making sand castles. Now the only thing is, this mold will eventually get a little sticky and will eventually get some sugar caked into it. And actually, you will find, that you can really only make maybe four or five skulls before they really don't pop out that easily anymore because you start to get some sugar and meringue powder and water mixture sort of stuck into the features, the details, of the mold and you start to lose some of your detail. So when that happens... I've made three, I could probably make a couple more... But if you look at my mold, you can see that it's starting to get a little sticky inside. All you want to do then is just go wash it by hand in the sink. Don't use any soap or anything, just kind of wash it out. And the really important thing is to dry it before you start molding again. So let's do that right now."