Heart-Shaped Sugar Cubes
Sugar cubes in fun shapes (like hearts) can be very expensive to purchase. Make your own and customize them in any color you love.
Servings: 8
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon water
- Food Coloring Optional I use Wilton Icing Color.
- Silicone mold in any shape you like To save time use several molds
Instructions
- Measure sugar into a measuring cup
- Add water
- Add a teensy bit of food coloring (err on the side of too little) and stir well
- If the color is too light, add a teensy bit more food coloring.
- Once sugar and water are mixed well and the color is correct, press sugar into a silicone mold of your choosing. They come in all shapes and sizes.
- Turn the mold over just above a plate and the cubes will fall right out.
- Place plate with cubes in a freezer for 1-2 hours until they are well hardened. Once hardened they can be stored in a container in the refrigerator for future use.
Notes
Additional Tips: Though it may be tempting, don't add any additional water to this recipe. Too much water could dissolve your sugar.
Wilton Icing Colors are super concentrated so I normally just dip a toothpick into the color and then into my recipe. If you need more, use the other end of the tooth pick or a new one to avoid getting any sugar into your Wilton color icing.
If a cube breaks when you're turning them out, just firmly press the sugar back into the mold and turn it out again. This recipe makes approximately 8 sugar cubes so just double or triple the recipe to make the number you need.
Wilton Icing Colors are super concentrated so I normally just dip a toothpick into the color and then into my recipe. If you need more, use the other end of the tooth pick or a new one to avoid getting any sugar into your Wilton color icing.
If a cube breaks when you're turning them out, just firmly press the sugar back into the mold and turn it out again. This recipe makes approximately 8 sugar cubes so just double or triple the recipe to make the number you need.