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Question: How can I make sugar (not cubes) stick together!?
I know I sound completely ridiculous, haha!. But I'm kinda doing this art project at home, where I am making a skull out of sugar!. Again, I know I sound ridiculous:)!. Anyway, I got the idea from a song by Envy on the Coast called Sugar Skulls!. I'm seriously not crazy, but haha okWww@QuestionHome@Com


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http://southernfood!.about!.com/od/candyre!.!.!.
this site gives you instructions on making what is called Divinity, it is still very sugary, but it sticks together!.

It is really hot and so you have to be carefl and maybe have help!.
Maybe you could get a mold of a skull
and then pour the candy while its still hot into the mold!?
http://mexicanfood!.about!.com/b/2005/10/2!.!.!.
this picture of a candy skull is decorated
fun
there's a link on that page for molds!.
you could make a skull form
or get one and
apply the sugary concotion to it like plaster and then model the features!.

it sound like a great project!.
good luck

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It sounds like you want something like the sugar skulls for the "Day of The Dead" a different version of Halloween!.

I put 2 links in references!.
One uses egg white
One uses Meringue Powder(processed egg white)

If there will be someone that could get sick easily --use the Meringue PowderWww@QuestionHome@Com

Yours is a valid question, and there's a valid way to achieve the result you want!. But !. !. !. you'll need many pounds of sugar!. Go online to a site like foodnetwork!.com and search for sugar swizzle sticks!. This will instruct you on how to create clear sugar crystals that stick together!. Cooking the sugar must be done, and then about 30 days must pass for the sugar to transfer from the water to the stick!.
If all you want to do is bind white sugar together, look up sugar easter eggs (the hollow eggs that have an interior scene, and are often decorated with frosted piping around the outside edge!. This recipe will instruct you on how to get the sugar to stick together!.
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for experiment take three or four spoon full of sugar and add few drops of water and leave for few hours for water to dry!. and u have lump of coarse!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Some kind of light humidity I would imagine!.Www@QuestionHome@Com