I decided to try to make a bird in a nest. Here are the forms I made from aluminum foil....
and below are the forms, after I poured the sugar in. As you can see, the bird sprung a leak because the form wasn't quite level. I should have held it down until set a little bit.
But, it was easily fixed - as you can see below, I just gave it a whack after it cooled and the excess cracked off.
Below is the bird and his base - glued together with more hot sugar. Notice how his edges are a little sharp and jagged? That's because I made a homemade mold. I took a small torch later and smoothed those out.
Below is the finished bird, sitting in a nest made of spun sugar. The bowl of the nest is more poured sugar, formed by pressing onto an inverted metal bowl after the sugar had set a little but was still flexible. When it finished cooling, it was fairly easy to pop it off the bowl form.
Below is the finished bird, sitting in a nest made of spun sugar. The bowl of the nest is more poured sugar, formed by pressing onto an inverted metal bowl after the sugar had set a little but was still flexible. When it finished cooling, it was fairly easy to pop it off the bowl form.
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