Candy-Corn Dots
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Ingredients
- 1 pound confectioners' sugar, plus more if needed
- 5 tablespoons meringue powder (wilton.com)
- 1/2 cup water, plus more if needed
- Yellow and red food coloring
Directions
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Tape template to a baking sheet. Cut two 10-by-13-inch strips of freezer paper, and tape, shiny side down, to template.
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Beat together sugar, meringue powder, and water with a mixer. Test it with a toothpick on a piece of freezer paper: Icing should form a domed dot that doesn't spread. If it forms a peak, it's too thick, so add a little more water, 1/2 teaspoon at a time. If it doesn't hold the dot shape, add a little more sugar, 1 teaspoon at a time.
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Divide icing equally among 3 bowls. Mix 6 drops yellow food coloring into 1 bowl. Mix red and yellow to create orange in 2nd bowl. Leave icing white in 3rd bowl.
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Transfer to 3 resealable plastic bags. Squeeze into corner, close off top tightly with rubber bands, and cut a small opening in a corner of each bag to create a piping bag.
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Pipe dots onto templates, alternating colors, in any pattern desired.
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Let stand, uncovered, until dots are firm and dry enough to be pulled off papers, about 2 days.
Cook's Note
One box of confectioners' sugar yields enough white, yellow, and orange royal icing to make 10 strips of 60 dots.
golanaraven, I'm sure you could easily make your own template. Just use some graph paper and make evenly spaced out dots, or pull out a ruler and measure the evenly spaced dots out. You don't even need to make strips. You could spell out your granddaughters name or do her initials. I like your red, white and blue idea. I'm going to try that this summer.
I would love to make these candy dots for my grand daughter but the promised template is not where the magazine article sent me on line.
I thought it would be fun changing colors for different events (red, white and blue for the 4th of July; pastels for Easter; red and green for Christmas etc) but without the template I would just make a mess out of it.
Too bad. It was a good idea.