Sugar Art II

Sugar art has become more and more popular and many people are replacing the traditional cakes with these beautiful and delicious objects. Yes, it is more expensive due to the huge amount of work involved, but it is definitely a unique way of enhancing the celebrations.

Even if you don't want to miss out on the cake, there are many sugar decorations which can be put on and incorporated with the cake. These colorful butterflies are a wonderful example of some of the ready made decorations which can be purchased online.

Take a closer look at this sugar art project and you will see how carefully and delicately shaped every piece is.

Hard candy is actually another form of sugar art, especially the ones which have an imagine in it like grapes, oranges, etc. It takes some expertise to put all the right colors in the right place and pull the sugar until it has reached the right size and shape.

This is still mainly done by hand and next time you are munching on one of those a sweet treats, consider what an art went in to creating it!