Sugar Art

Sugar art is a specialty within the candy and pastry making field which involves using sugar to create complex shapes, scenes, textures, and patterns.

Displays of sugar art appear in a wide variety of settings, from wedding cakes to store windows, with sugar art being especially common during the winter holiday season.

A wide variety of techniques can be used for sugar art, including blown and pulled sugar , and all of these techniques require skills and practice.

Pulled sugar may be used to create ribbons of sugar and similar decorative items, and people may also work with sugar which has been molded into various shapes.

While some artisans work with plain sugar, most use colorings, for everything from surprisingly realistic flowers to delicate blown sugar ornaments on a holiday-themed cake. This art form is highly perishable.

Culinary schools sometimes include a display of stabilized sugar art as an end of semester project, with students working together to build a scene entirely in sugar.

Candy stores may also use sugar art as a seasonal decoration, and small sugar art decorations are also given as gifts in some cultures.