Children are very fond of bright and colorful sweets, so colored sugar can be an ideal option for cotton candy. Making colorful sweets is simple enough. But for this you need to know a few secrets.
How to color sugar for cotton candy
Most often, colored sugar is used for cotton candy. But if you use imagination, you can expand the range of applications. It is easy to make bright sugar at home, and such a procedure will take a minimum of time.
First you need to prepare the necessary components:
- Sugar.
- Food colorings.
- Plastic bags.
Colored sugar for cotton wool is prepared in accordance with the following algorithm:
- Pour a certain amount of sugar in one of the bags.
- Add a few drops of the coloring matter to the polyethylene container.
- Vigorously shake the bag, trying not to tear it.
- When the sugar is evenly colored, you need to pour the sweetness on a plate so that it dries.
So it is worth doing with each color of the dye separately. Depending on the amount of dye, the saturation of the shade will be determined. When using dyes, you should pay attention to the composition so that the color turns out to be bright, and the product does not bring harm.
How to get a natural dye for sugar
It is often difficult to find a synthetic food coloring that will be as safe as possible for your health. Therefore, many are trying to use natural ingredients for coloring sugar.
Getting a natural dye for coloring food products is quite simple. For extraction, you can use the simplest ingredients. The option of obtaining natural dyes is made in accordance with the following recipe:
- Pre-heated pan with butter.
- Vegetable or fruit should be cut into small pieces.
- Pour the chopped product and cook until the oil is colored.
- Then shift the component to gauze and squeeze the juice.
You can get colors from these products:
- Red made from cherries.
- Yellow and orange from carrots.
- Violet and blue are easy to harvest from beets.
Green is easiest to recreate with green. But, as you know, this ingredient is not necessary to fry.
Each presented product has its own analogue in the color scheme. If you use such dyes, then colored sugar will turn out to be beautiful, bright and at the same time harmless to the body. This option is suitable for creating candy canes, cotton candy, soft drinks.
The principle of staining sugar
Since natural dyes do not have the same color strength as synthetic ones, the staining procedure will be slightly different. It is worth considering this in the process:
- To get colored sugar, you need about 10 milliliters of natural dye.
- It is better to color the sugar in small portions so that the color is uniform.
- Drying colored sweets will be longer.
- The rest of the algorithm is the same as when using the synthetic version of the dye.
Such colored sugar will additionally acquire a light shade of the product from which the color was drawn.