How do you make sugar mice?

annie123

like these:

http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/sugar-mice-p-527.html

I've never made sweets before and would like to make some for retro sweetie boxes for xmas. Not paying that price for 3 mice!

need idiot proof way of doing it:rolleyes: thanks


annie

Toonie

I had a quick look on google and this is the first page that came up

http://thefoody.com/sweets/sugarmice.html

Hope this helps.

angelavdavis

This is another recipe I have found:

http://www.smallfilms.co.uk/bagpuss/sugarmice.htm

weezl74

hi annie123,

I used caster sugar, egg white red food coluring (to make them pink!) and a drop of peppermint essence. It's hard to be specific about amounts, cos the size of an egg white varies from egg to egg, as does the moisture content in sugar!

So I beat those together adding enough sugar for it to be a very stiff paste and then pressed it firmly into the moulds. I then had to wait a long time for the egg white to dry out, but then they came easily out of the moulds...:D

Hope you have fun!

Weezl x

annie123

thank you all,
been out to get castor sugar..........and discovered wilkinsons have opened near me, had a quick look..................big mistake:rolleyes:

£26 later :eek: and only stopped because basket was full!
what a great place, sure it will save me money in the long run;)

would have been cheaper to buy the mice:rotfl: but not as much fun.

Will make them the weezl way;)

Yategirl

where did you get your moulds from Weezl?

morganlefay

I found some v old (but clean and nice) moulds for making sugar mice which had a recipe which it says makes somewhat soft mice. Does anyone have a recipe which I could use to make hardish mice like you buy ?

Pink.

Hi morganlefay,

There are some links and a recipe on this thread:

How do you make sugar mice?

I'll add your thread to that one later to keep the replies together.

Pink

morganlefay

Thanks Pink - it never occurred to me to search for such a 'specialist' recipe. I might have known OSers would have been there before me ! :T

Rosemarie.s_2

You can buy the moulds from Lakeland. x

Claire71uk

I found this... my nanny used to make her own fondant. Using it for cream centres, chocolate cherries and mice.

http://myownbakeoff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/sugar-mice.html

Best of luck to those attempting.