Gourmet Sugar Cubes

Gourmet sugar cubes. More of a technique than a recipe, this was a fun exercise with super cute results. My sister, Mary, gifted me with some peppermint vanilla bean sugar from Savory Spice Shop, and I didn’t know what to do with it. Flashback to a failed attempt at lavendar sugar cubes a few years back (Valentine’s Day champagne cocktails gone wrong), I was ready to try again. Et voilà! Perfect for coffee this morning. I didn’t want to buy specialty silicon molds, because that would require long drying times and limits how many you can make at a time. Instead, I used the Linzer mini heart cookie cutter, which I lined with parchment paper, in order to shape the cubes. Each cube is individually packed and released. Yes, this is tedious. Yes I did this a few dozen times. But the joy of dropping an adorable heart shaped sugar cube into my morning tea made it all worth the effort ^_^

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Gourmet Sugar Cubes

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Ingredients

• 1 cup of sugar (plain, raw, or blends)
• 1 tsp water
• Optional, 1 drop of flavor extract
• 1 mini cookie cutter
• 1/2" strip of parchment paper

Instructions

1

Mix together the sugar, water, and extract (if using),

2

Line the inside of the cookie cutter with the parchment paper,

3

Gently spoon the sugar mixture into the cookie cutter firmly pack it in,

4

Then nudge the packed sugar cube out of the cookie cutter,

5

Repeat until you've used up all the sugar,

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Let the sugar cubes dry overnight, and store in an airtight container