Caramel Decoration for Desserts! (Sugar Decoration Garnish Spun Sugar)

Making caramel decorations for desserts. In this recipe video, we'll show you how to add a level of sophistication to your next dessert, by making these simple caramel sugar decorations to use as a garnish.
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These garnishes of caramelized sugar can be used to decorate cakes or individual plated desserts. Like any small decorative work, they take a little practice - they key is to boil your sugar right until it starts caramelizing. This provides a cooked sugar with more flexibility, and will be easier to work with. There’s nothing more delicious than melted caramel. You only need 2 ingredients to easily make the perfect, melted caramel. Use this type of melted caramel to make beautiful, sculpted designs to make you look like a plating pro!
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0:00 Caramel Decorations
0:43 Flat Caramel Decorations
1:07 Caramel Cylinder Decoration
1:32 Caramel Cage Decoration
1:52 Caramel Spiral Decoration
Ingredients for making sugar decorations for desserts:
1/2 cup of sugar
Non stick cooking spray
Instructions for making spun sugar decorations for desserts:
- First things first, you need to make some caramel.
- This is really simple, just add sugar and a little water to a pot and turn the heat on to medium
- Allow the water to hydrate the sugar as much as possible without stirring it
- If there are still lumps of dry sugar, you can gently shake the pan the mix it in
- As the sugar bubbles away, some crystals will start to form on the inside edge of the pot
- To remove these, all you need is a brush and a little cold water to gently brush down the sides of the pot
- The colour should start to darken after a few minutes
- Resist the urge to stir it with a spoon but if you sense that it’s cooking unevenly, you can lightly swirl the mixture every so often
- Once you have a rich caramel colour, remove it from the heat
- Now it needs to cool slightly before you can start to work with it
- For these first decorations, take a small spoonful of caramel and drizzle it a few inches above a piece of parchment paper
- Move the spoon around to create whatever shape or pattern you want
- This should give you a good feel for the consistency of the caramel and you can have fun making up new shapes and patterns
- It's a great place to start when making caramel decorations
- Once you’ve mastered that, you can move on to the next decoration
- For this you’ll need a long piece of parchment paper sprayed with non stick cooking spray
- Again take a spoonful of your caramel but this time hold the spoon higher above the parchment paper and rapidly drizzle from side to side
- The idea is to get long thin strands of caramel
- Now quickly use a pallet knife to gently loosen the caramel from the paper and carefully gather the strands together
- You need to work fast here to ensure they stay malleable
- You should be able to gently roll the gathered strands into a loose circle which has a gorgeous delicate look
- For the next decoration you’ll need a ladle generously sprayed with cooking spray
- Now holding the ladle upright drizzle the caramel in thin strands back and forth across the back of the scooped end
- You want to criss cross the strands to create a delicate caramel cage
- After a few seconds, the sugar should be hard enough for you to gently slide it off the ladle
- For this last one you want your caramel to be quite a bit cooler than before
- It should also be much thicker and you should be able to carefully pinch off a piece and pull it out to create a strand of caramel
- Now position a lightly greased wooden spoon under the strand of caramel and use your thumb to hold it in place
- Slowly, making sure to keep a consistent strand, wrap the caramel tightly around the handle
- Once you are satisfied, break off the ends and very carefully slide the caramel spiral off the end of the handle
- Now you have a beautiful and fun decorations for your favorite desserts
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Thanks so much! I'm not a stranger to caramel but have never shaped it. This is very well presented and gave me some amazing ideas.

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Not only are they simple to make but they're also really cute

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Thank you, chef. You made this tasty decoration look simple to make. I will use this for cakes and cupcakes, thank you. 🥰🫶🩷

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Mine crystallized when I was cooking yes it was cooking normally but The whole top of the pan was covered in snowy looking bubbles

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Can I use wax paper instead of parchment paper?

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which spry do u used

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hw long it can b stored nd fresh

[@ihaveagunjutsu]

I tried the cage but the bowl I used was to steep from up to down and he drizzle didn’t connect well to each other…

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How many minutes I wait it to dry

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Can we make and store these decorations in the fridge??

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Hello chef,may I know,what name spray use??

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I'm going to make these with DABs.

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Which spray

[@hOtneO]

How to make a caramel bowl with a flat bottom? Using a balloon has it too round bottom and it slides around the plate while eating.

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Maravilha

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Thanks the creepysnowman! Give it a try at home and let us know how it goes! 😄

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What did he sprayed

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How to save?

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What if we don't have that spray

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Como fazer esse caramelo

[@cheezynachoo2229]

Can you also apply oil otherwise? With a silicon brush e.g.

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Definitely, the spray is just a bit easier to use

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What is the name of paper is that? And the name of oil thank u

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What is this technique called?

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What can we use alternative of cooking spray?

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I saw somewhere you can use vegetable oil on the ladle instead of cooking spray. Hope that helps

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How do you keep the caramel liquidy?

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May be double boil n keep it as warm as possible😊

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Anjali may be right, but in this video you see two different color of caramel, as it is probably two different badges of caramel used to make the video.

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What did she add in the sugar

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Is there any substitutions for non-stick in cooking spray

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I saw somewhere you can use vegetable oil for the ladle instead of cooking spray.

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2:01 May I know what the wooden spoon should be greased with?

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[@alexleggett6270]

I'm a regular chef not a pastry chef and I tried all of these techniques and failed miserably. My "bowl" slid off the spoon. Also my caramel drizzle was too thick and I couldn't figure out how you were getting it so thin? I feel that this is one of those things that takes a considerable amount of practice first and is a hands on learning experience. Just can't watch a KZbin video and recreate it quickly unfortunately. sigh.... lol

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This chef probably brought the temperature of the sugar near 300 degrees (the hard crack stage) then had a cool to cold spoon. An understanding of sugar candy temperatures is just as important as practice. Soft ball is 235ish, hard ball is 260ish, soft crack is 280ish, and hard crack is 300ish. Soft ball is for Italian meringue and fudges, hard ball is for a soft nougat and soft caramels, soft crack is for saltwater taffy, nougat, and other hard chewy candies like hard caramels. Hard crack represents anything that you want to crack or crunch when cooled. Often enough a small amount of glucose or corn syrup is used to keep the sugar solution more stable until it reaches the right temperature. This is because sucrose crystals form in an attempt to create more energy when a solution begins to cool at all. A solution of glucose/fructose, which are both components of sucrose, will get in the way of sucrose crystallizing. You can create your own glucose/fructose syrup solution by introducing an acid like lemon juice or cream of tartar to break the sucrose bonds at a high enough temperature (200F?) Glucose syrup and corn syrup are both used in cooking to stop sucrose bonds from forming when creating any kind of high temperature sugar reaction to avoid crystallization. Yeah woops I went down a rabbit hole. But the stages and temperatures of sugar can be understood by research. The results are mostly due to the sugar temperature in response to lack of moisture. Edit: am dumb. Edit 2: look at isomalt (a sugar alcohol) sugar works. Isomalt should not be consumed in large amounts but can be used to create remeltable garnishes.

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@@emersonherrmann6106 hey thanks for the additional info very helpful !

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​@alexleggett6270 I'm a pastry chef and I believe u got this u just have to move fast before it hardens up have everything READY in place some pastry dishes have a time window on them so move quickly and have everything in front of you that you need chef

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Can I store it in refrigerator?

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In a tight closed container in the freezer not allowing moisture

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Do you need to add water to a caramel. Cause i see some that and some that doesn't

[@dishedit]

Yes. 1 1/2 tbsp water.

[@alison_actually]

Is it possible to pipe this type of caramel? I want to make a letter shape to decorate my cupcakes but can't be consistent by hand, but never seen anything about piping it. Anyone tried it ?

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I think you can only spoon it. It might harden if you try to pipe it

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@@cbcimutebi5564 I gave up and used chocolate instead.

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can i make these garnishing and keep it inside a container for future usage?

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Without spray its shape will remain same?

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Should be. 😊😁 Did you try making it Aysha Qasim? 😊😃

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@@dishedit no bt on Eid I wanna try this

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What is cooking spray?

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Basically an oil spray. It's used instead of a brush or fingers , to apply an even coat of grease.