[Sca-cooks] Price of Sugar paste (was "Edible" Cinnamon Sticks)

[kattratt]

Sorry it took so long,
I said that a pound of the paste would make about 2 cups.  (Actually 
since then we have found the number to be about 4.)  Yes the little cups 
we are making are about the size of muffin tins.  We ended up making 
batches in about 4 pound batches.  We got 14 cups each time.  Our cups 
are probably a little thicker than was needed but I doubt that you could 
convince me of that with the cracking we were having.  All in all the 
cups turned out well.  I will report how well they worked after next 
weekend.  The gum tragastuff was way to expensive to use for this though.  
For our recipe I think that we ended up using about 2lbs of 
Confectioners sugar for each batch.  (That number could be wrong but I 
think it was 2 lb bags. ) They made about 4 lbs of paste each time.  I 
can tell you that when these things dried they weigh about like china 
cups do.
Nichola


Irmgart H wrote:

>how large are your little cups? I haven't actually *made* sugar paste, just
>played with it... I'd think you'd get a heck of a lot more than 1 cup out of
>a pound of sugar!  Since 1 oz of sugar=110 calories, 1 lb of sugar would be
>1760 calories. Now, I don't know about you, but I'd have to swear off even
>*looking* at sugar paste if that were the case (yes, I'm one of the crazies
>who eats it)! I'm imagining that your "little cups" are around the size of
>muffin tin cups? I'd guess you'd get more like 10(or more) out of a pound of
>paste, which is more like 200 cups from the pound of gum tragastuff...
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>Again, I've never actually *made* the stuff, just used it, so I could be
>*way* off base as far as how much it will stretch.
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