Woven Pulled Sugar Basket
Weave the pulled sugar basket body with pulled sugar strips on a perforated base board, replace wooden pegs, then install the base and rim to create a display sugar basket.
Ingredients
Pulled sugar paste
to taste
Poured sugar or pulled sugar sheet (for base)
to taste
Wooden board (drilled with an odd number of angled holes)
1
Wooden pegs (matching the holes)
several
Instructions
1
Prepare the mold
Prepare a base board drilled with an odd number of holes, evenly distributed in a circular, oval, or square pattern, with a slight tilt. Insert wooden pegs and lightly oil them.
2
Weave the basket body
Take a ball of soft pulled sugar and stretch it into a sugar rope. Starting from the inner edge of the pegs, weave the sugar rope back and forth between the pegs, keeping the thickness uniform, until reaching the desired height.
3
Replace the supports
Make pulled sugar rods matching the number and size of the pegs. Remove each peg one by one and replace it with a pulled sugar rod. Trim the top with a hot knife if necessary.
4
Make the base
Form a basket base using poured sugar or thinly rolled pulled sugar, and attach it to the basket with hot sugar syrup.
5
Decorate the edges
Twist two pulled sugar ropes into a braided rope, coil it around the top and bottom edges of the basket, and seal the joints. For handles, shape wire and wrap sugar rope around it.
