Sugar Balls
Colorful sugar ball decorations made with caster sugar and royal icing.
Ingredients
Granulated sugar (spread on tray about 1/4 inch (0.5 cm) thick)
to taste
Royal icing (softened slightly with water)
to taste
Instructions
1
Prepare Sugar
Evenly spread about 1/4 inch or 0.5 cm of granulated sugar in a shallow tray. Use the eraser end of a pencil to firmly press small indentations close together in the sugar.
2
Prepare Icing
Make royal icing, softened slightly with water.
3
Pipe Icing
Fill a piping bag fitted with a small piping tip, pipe small balls into each indentation.
4
Cover
Completely cover with the granulated sugar, then let sit to set and dry.
5
Sift
After 24 hours, sift everything in the tray through a fine sieve to separate the colored sugar balls from the sugar powder.
