How to Decorate Sugar Cubes

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Decorated sugar cubes have many uses, from tea party dainties, to festive sugar cubes useful for specific celebrations. Making designs on the sugar cube will delight guests and enhance the table presentation.

Steps

  1. Plan the designs that you'll make on the sugar cubes. Some ideas include:
    • For a tea party, draw teacups, teapots, and teabag designs
    • For Christmas, draw Santas, reindeer, and holly
    • For Easter, draw Easter eggs, bunnies, and crosses
    • For a birthday, draw a cake, candles, and gifts with bows
    • For a cocktail party, draw cocktail glasses, cherry garnishes, and cocktail shakers
    • For a special year birthday, draw the age on the sugar cubes
    • For a wedding or Valentine's Day, draw hearts and kisses; for a wedding use bells, lilies, and rings as well
    • For a spring party, draw bees, flowers, and ladybugs.
  2. Prepare the cake icing. If using more than one colour, make several bowls of different colors of icing by adding food dye.
  3. Make a piping bag. If you already have one, use that.
  4. Set up a work space surface covered in wax paper. This will make it easy to wipe off any drips of icing sugar.
  5. Put the icing into the piping bag. Following the designs you've planned, pipe the shape onto the sugar cube. It's delicate and tiny work, so be seated somewhere comfortable in good lighting and prepare for this to take some time.
    • You can pipe a design onto just one side, or perhaps onto more. If doing all 6 sides, this will be very time-consuming and fiddly, and you'll need to allow some sides to dry before turning it right over.
  6. Decorate before dry. If you want more than just the icing, add the decorative elements before the icing dries. Some things that you might like to add include dragees, sprinkles, and edible glitter.
  7. Allow to dry. Arrange on a serving plate, making sure to show the designs to their best advantage.

Tips

  • If you're really frustrated or simply don't like fiddling to this extent, an easier way is to purchase ready-made sugar candy designs and simply stick them on with icing sugar as glue. Easy done!
  • The sugar cube can be dyed using food dye.
  • If you want to flavour the icing, add flavouring to the icing when preparing it.
  • If boxed up, a set of decorated sugar cubes can look very appealing as a gift.

Things You'll Need

  • Icing sugar
  • Sugar cubes
  • Piping bag/pastry bag
  • Food coloring
  • Wax paper to work on
  • Designs on paper (look at images online for inspiration)
  • Marker
  • Plate for serving
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