The Day of the Dead is a colorful day for all our dead loved ones
including our friends and other distant relatives. Hence, aside from
other typical activities and festivities, the happiest way to remember
them is the very popular sugar skull offering. It becomes an activity
that unifies everyone through wonderful creations and presentations
where you could see the personal touches and creativity coming from
those people who are exerting much effort, time, and skill to make it
fun and exciting. Here are some of the recipes that you can follow as
you approach this day.
10. Novio Skulls
Novio in Spanish means bride and groom. This is made using two colors
of chocolate in coating the candy. It could be covered with cello bags
with matching tied up colorful ribbons. You would need 1 teaspoon of
meringue powder in each cup of granulated sugar. Ready card of bride and
groom skulls, sugar, royal icing for decorations and you could add
glitters.
9. Little Frida Sugar Skulls
Frida Kahlo was a famous printer in Mexico and the struggles that she
had in life was symbolical to the Day of the Dead celebrations because
of the unique art presentations that she made. You need Frida Kahlo
Skull Molds and accessory molds such as sombreros. You could use white
and dark chocolate but most people use white chocolate that should be
melted and later on be frozen. Ready royal icing and sticks.
8. Pre-Made Sugar Skulls
There are stores that have ready sugar skulls, which fit your
preferences for that day. This is appropriate if you would throw
parties. You would need just need icings and other decorative items and
it can be decorated by children since they are baked already.
7. Small Skull
This is a personalized skull which has a name of the deceased person
either printed or lettered through icing. You need small candies,
feathers, or sequins and take note, it should be non-edible items. You
could use Halloween candies and decorative chocolates.
6. Sombrero Sugar Skull
Since Mexico primarily celebrates it and it is the place where the
Day of the Dead originally celebrated, sombrero signifies the Mexican
culture. You will need the traditional sombrero, meringue powder, royal
icing mix, disposable pastry bags, gel food color, and water.
5. Festive Skulls
Under the pre-Christian Mexico, laughing is an important way to leash
out sadness to survive. You have to ready 2 cups of powdered sugar, egg
white, corn syrup, cornstarch, food coloring, and small paintbrush. You
need to mix everything except for the food coloring.
4. Cascade of Skulls
Tequila is a favorite drink during the Day of the Dead and cascade
produces beers and other drinks. It could be the combination of skull
recipes and maximizing decorative stuff like candies, ribbons, icing,
and paintbrushes.
3. Sugar Skulls
You just need to produce three small skulls and following the
standard recipes for any skull while adding flowers on their head,
decorating each skull with icing and add some small colorful candies.
2. Small Sugar Skulls
These are combinations of various designs. One could have sombrero,
flowers on their head depicting marigold and these are made using
various colorful icing, foil, paper plate to flatten them down,
1. Large Sugar Skull
You would need a large molder and a number of colorful icing. Hence,
you would focus on just one big skull. In most cases, this is patterned
with the Lord of the rings appearance. You need ¼ cup of
meringue powder, 10 teaspoons of water and 5-pound bag of sugar wherein
you could make five large skulls of these ingredients.
Those are just some of the creative ways where you could make your
sugar skull creative, based on history, preferences, and what others
have used to do. You could browse some ideas from others like sugar
skull Tillie, sugar skull sweet baby, Nixon, sugar skull pirate, sugar
skull punk, sugar skull Fatima, and sugar skull count blackula.
Nonetheless, these are some of the creative ideas that you might have
known already or you are not aware of, that might contribute to your
preparation for this year’s Day of the Dead. Remember, it is the spirit
of celebrating. It is what that matters the most.
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