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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Latin American >> Mexican >> Mexican

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. You will also need sequins, for decorating the eyes. | 2. Combine the egg white and water until foamy. | 3. Add extract (if using) and corn syrup. | 4. Add confectioners sugar; you'll end up having to use your hands to incorporate all of it. | 5. Sprinkle 1 cup of the cornstarch on a work surface and knead the sugar paste in the cornstarch until it's smooth. | 6. Form a ball and wrap it up tightly in plastic wrap; chill in the refrigerator for a couple of hours. | 7. Pinch off some of the sugar paste to use with food coloring for decorations. | 8. With the rest of the paste you should have enough for about 8 skulls; they don't have to be very big, less than the size of a small fist. | 9. Sculpt the piece of sugar paste into a skull shape, smoothing the surface as you go and forming eye sockets, etc. | 10. (You can find some really good examples on various sites on the internet--). | 11. You'll find that the paste gets softer and softer the warmer it gets-- if it sticks too much, add more cornstarch. | 12. Add food colors (and extracts, if using) to the sugar paste that you set aside; generally the brighter the colors the better. | 13. If you wish, you can add enough water to form more of an icing and it can be squeezed onto the skulls, if not, forming decorations by hand is okay, too. | 14. The skulls are generally"cheery" looking and colorful, not particularly scary. | 15. Finish by using sequins in the eye sockets. | 16. Now your skull is ready to dry. | 17. Simply let it sit out in a dry, warm place for a few hours or up to a couple of days based on weather conditions. | 18. When dry, it's ready to display. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
egg white essential	1			-	-	-	-
water	3/4	cup		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
corn syrup	1/4	cup		241.2575	65.4635	0.0	0.1705
confectioner ' sugar	7	cups		-	-	-	-
cornstarch	2	cups		975.36	233.6512	0.6656	0.128
anise extract cinnamon				-	-	-	-
food coloring				-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.