Sugar Mice Recipes

HOW TO MAKE SUGAR MICE

Steps:

• Sift the icing sugar into a large bowl
• Whisk the egg white until white and foaming
• Stir evenly into the icing sugar
• Add the lemon juice and combine
• Get your hands in and bring the icing mixture together into a ball
• Turn onto a work surface lightly dusted with icing sugar and knead until it's pliable (if it's too dry add a little more lemon juice but go easy, if it's too wet add more icing sugar)
• Divide the mixture into two and add a few drops of pink colouring to one half, kneading until it is evenly combined
• Break off walnut sized pieces of icing dough and roll into a mouse shape (fat at the bottom, pointy at the nose)
• Pinch ears with your thumb and forefinger (or snip them in with the tips of a pair of scissorand shape - some of ours were a bit nibbled looking but it doesn't matter!
• Add chocolate sprinkles for eyes and noses and a piece of strawberry lace for a tail.
• Place them on the baking parchment on the baking tray and leave overnight to dry

SUGAR MICE

Steps:

• Put the sugar and water into a pan, and heat gently until the sugar is dissolved.
• Add glucose, and boil until 240 degrees Fahrenheit/105 centigrade.
• Take from heat, and allow to cool until it starts to thicken.
• When cool enough to handle, work in the coloring, if you are using it, and knead it.
• Pat out into a square.
• Separate fondant into equal parts (1 inch squares work really well.).
• COVER! in a bowl, in a freezer bag, anything so it won't dry out. It gets irritating when it's dried out --
• Roll each piece between hands till it's nice and smooth.
• Stick the tails into the fondant.
• Shape into mice-shapes.
• Take a tiny bit of fondant, work in the cocoa powder or food coloring to make noses.Pink or brown noses :) your choice!
• Place on parchment and let dry for 24 hours. Keeps for ages, just keep them cool, dry, separate.

SUGAR MICE

Steps:

• Separate the egg and whisk up the egg white until it is all nice and frothy.
• Sieve the sugar into the same bowl.
• Using a metal spoon start stirring, and stirring and stirring to make a dough
• If you want some coloured mice split the dough into three parts.In one add some red food colouring to make pink mice.In another add cocoa powder for fawn mice
• Divide up the dough into however many mice you want (size is up to you) and make a sort of short fat sausage shape out of each section. Roll at the front to get a pointy nose and pinch either side to get the ear shape.
• Using the strawberry liquorice lace push a tail into each mouse. You can cut tiny pieces to press in eas eyes or use tiny drops of food colouring gel.
• Put your mousy masterpieces on to baking paper/grease proof paper and on to a tray in the fridge overnight to set completely.

COCONUT CHRISTMAS MICE

Steps:

• Pulse coconut, confectioners' sugar and milk in a food processor until coconut is finely chopped. For each mouse, roll 1 tablespoon coconut mixture into a ball; taper 1 end to resemble a mouse. Attach sliced almonds for ears and licorice pieces for tails. Press miniature chocolate chips, tip side down, into place for eyes. Store in an airtight container.