Sugar Crystal Sticks Recipe

Let the jars cool to the touch and use a fork to break up the sugar crystals.

Sugar crystal sticks recipe. You can grow clear beautiful sugar crystals with sugar and water or you can add food coloring to get colored crystals. Make these vintage cookies with brown or white sugar pecans flour baking powder dates eggs and vanilla. Boil the water for 10 minutes for safety watch it carefully as you would when canning then turn off the heat. Add tip ask question comment download.

Begin by dumping out all of the syrup and any loose sugar crystals. So here we go to make sugar crystals on a stick. Place the sugar coated wooden stick into the sugar syrup in the glass making sure that it is not touching the bottom or sides of the glass. With time as more water evaporates more and more molecules end up sticking together and we perceive that as a growth of our sugar crystal.

Rock candy crystals magnified 250 times. Fill the jars with hot soapy water and place them in a pan with about 3 inches of water. Molecules collide with each other more frequently and that makes them stick together. Set aside and watch the sugar crystals grow for 2 to 3 days.

In the end your rock candy is made by almost a quadrillion 10 15 molecules. 1 cup water 2 cups sugar food coloring flavor oil 2 a bottle sauce pan tall narrow glass jar mine used to have hot pickles veggies in it clothes pin short skewers about 6 inches rubber scraper. The dry sugar will help the sugar crystals attach and grow onto the wooden stick. Pour sugar water into clean jar and place a bamboo skewer in the jar being sure the top sticks out over the surface of the water.

Cover with a cloth to keep out dust and let rest until all water is evaporated and crystals have formed on the skewer several days. Learn more about sugar and crystals. The sugar crystals are extra large creating more of a show than normal fine sugar crystals. A vintage typed recipe for crystal sticks.

As the water evaporates sugar crystals form on the string or stick and the shapes that they form reflect the shape of individual sugar crystals. Some types of muffins that go especially nice with sugar crystal decorating are banana blueberry pumpkin apple cinnamon bran or oat. Prepare muffin batter for any type of muffin. It is a great opportunity for kids to learn how different substances change when heated coole.

Aug 20 2015 it was these gorgeous sugar crystals swivel sticks photo above that caught my eye at the afternoon tea at raffles and thought would be a fabulous activity that the kids and i can do together when i returned home from dubai. Cook in flat pans make fall and when done cool and cut into sticks and roll in powdered sugar.