Make Your Own Decorated Sugar Cubes

The other day the store had sugar cubes clearanced! I can’t imagine that they weren’t all gone, they were less than $1 a box! Granted they were plain…..

I have always loved the beautifully decorated sugar cubes that you can buy to go with tea..but sometimes the prices are beyond what I can pay. Umm..ALL the time the prices are beyond what I can pay. Anyway..I got some with the idea of spending a little time learning to decorate them.

What I found was that egg white melts the sugar but royal icing is perfect..So in order to put the nonpariels on firmly I put a layer of royal icing and then carefully dipped the sugar cube tops in. I LOVE it. Next I tried colored sugar, and then finally tiny royal icing leaves and rose buds.

This could become an addiction.  It took me less than 15 minutes to do several cubes, with not THAT much mess…umm..comparatively.  Now Shiloh is in there making some..I will take pictures of hers and post them later today..  She has been humming and decorating for about 20 minutes so far..LOL! But hey, if my twelve year old can do it so can you!

Use your imagination..this was FUN!

Image: Marye Audet