Sugared Fruit --Which Fruit To Sugar??
Decorating By sugartopped Updated 29 Aug 2006 , 7:43am by MissBaritone
I've been reading about how to sugar fruit and it seems doable!! Gonna give it a shot. But I was wondering about what type of fruit typically works best?? For most of the things I've been reading stuff like: apples, grapes, pears, etc...kinda 'larger type fruit' or fruit w/a thicker 'skin'. I was actually going to do smaller stuff like: strawberries, blueberries, grapes, raspberries, cherries. Do you think it would still work??
Thanks, Christine
Grapes and cherries will work. Probably blueberries too. Not sure about raspberries strawberries.
I've done this a couple of times with strawberries, grapes & even cherry tomatoes. There is a photo of the cake in my photos page. Basically, i coat them with a thin layer of egg white & drizzle the sugar over it & dust off the excess, then let it dry.
You can pretty much sugar any fruits or flowers/leaves that are semi-hard and don't weep juices. Grapes, figs, gooseberries, capegooseberries, crab apples, pears, roses, etc. Raspberries won't work well.
You brush on the egg white very thinly and lightly with a small paintbrush and then carefully toss the fruit in jelly/superfine sugar. (Regular granulated sugar will work, but it's not that fine delicate coating of sugar that looks as thin as a shell in the end.)
Let the fruits dry to a crunchy coating, a few hours or overnight.
Don't put sugared fruits in the fridge or they will eventually get moist and the sugar weeps...ruining the effect.
I have lots of cakes in my Photos covered in bunches of sugared flowers and some cakes with fruits too.
i ended up running out time and didn't get a chance to do the sugared fruit. a little disappointed....but i need to manage my time better!!
i dont think the raspberries would have worked well. i'm not sure about the strawberries.
but i was going to use the merginue powder instead of 'real' egg whites, from what i've read...then the fruit can be eaten.
is this sugared fruit edible..i mean bec of the egg whites?
it's totally edible.......and it tastes WONDERFULL!!!! They sell pasturized egg whites in the store by the way....also I'm sure you could do it with the meringue powder! Haven't tried it that way though....but it says it can be used in any recipe calling for egg whites!
Ok - this might be strange - but here it is.
Has anyone done this to gum paste roses or is there something else that would give me the same effect. I love rose, and I love this effect and I am trying to plan a cake with this effect on gum paste roses accented with rock cany.
Do you think this would work?
Yes meringue powder mixed with egg white can be used
You can also sugar any edible flowers including roses, violets, primroses and nasturtiums
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