Tips for Mixing Colors for Sugar Skulls

Video Transcript

"So hopefully you can see that this mixture is really a very even, homogeneous, you know, all one color. You know, it's not all swirly or uneven. It's really all kind of the same color pink. And that's because I added the color to the water instead of to the sugar mixture. If you add it to the dry ingredients, or if you add the water first, and then add that coloring, it will be really hard to distribute that color evenly. So now, you can see, I'm making these nice, kind of watermelon pink skulls. And so I'm just going to go ahead, and again, I used about four cups of sugar, so with this mold I should be able to get about eight skulls. So I'm just going to kind of do it as I've been doing: just kind of loading it. I've got it at the right consistency. You know, put it in there. Remember, I can't stress this enough, you really want to pack it in there, because in order to get a lot of the details of the face it really kind of needs to be packed up against the mold. Clean off the back. Get my little playing card, king of clubs in this particular case. Flip it out, and there we go. I'm just going to keep doing this until I have enough. And you know, the timing of this is really cool. Because about the time I finish this sheet of skulls, the ones I've got in the oven... it will probably be about time for them to come out. Because they will have probably dried out enough where I can take them out and a lot of the water will have basically steamed out of them."