How to Wash Sugar Skull Molds

Video Transcript

"So I'm just going to wash this mold out in the sink, just using water; I'm not going to use and soap. Just kind of give it a little rinse here...use my fingers to rub the sugar out, kind of making sure that I'm getting into the details, you know, the eyes and the teeth and all that. And once that's clean, we're in good shape. Now I don't want to begin molding right away because it will really get quite sticky with all the extra water there. So it's really important that you dry your mold out and that your mold is basically perfectly dry before you start molding the sugar mixture again. And in order to do that, you really need to make sure once again, and dry out the details: dry out around the teeth, and around the eyes, around the nose, because those are the areas of the mold that tend to stick the most and tend to grab the sugar. So once you get this kind of washed and dried, you kind of want to wash and dry both sides, then you're ready to do some more. And like I said, you can usually do up to maybe five, maybe six or seven sometimes before they start sticking and then you're going to want to have to go do a little hand wash then. So, now I've done my little hand wash with water and it's dry and I'm ready to start molding out some more."