[Sca-cooks] Hat was favorite cicada lymerics; YAK

[Olwen the Odd]

Both.  The white goo I tossed in a bowl with rice crispies, for the crunch 
ya know.  Actually, it was difficult to combine the two without crushing the 
crispies since the white goo only really wanted to stick to itself.  The 
caramel I put in a bowl and stuck it in the microwave for a few seconds at a 
time so it would get warm and a little melty but not so hot it burned 
fingers.  I then took bit of the caramel and squished in palms to flatten, 
formed a shape from the white crispie and wrapped that in the caramel and 
shaped it and imprinted the lines with a little knife edge.  Last night I 
lightly painted the green and orangy/red parts.  The are a bit too green but 
I think that is fixable.  I expected the green colour to sink in dull out in 
drying but it didn't.  The wings will be made from a hard candy recipe and 
scribed or painted lines on them.  I will pop the bugs in the micro to 
soften before inserting the wings.  They are an exagerated size, but oh so 
cool.
Olwen

>Are you using the caramel part, or the white goo?
>--maire
>
>Olwen the Odd wrote:
>
>>On an aside note, do you know that the white stuff in those round caramels 
>>is powdered sugar moistened and what mouth-feels like some kind of fat.  I 
>>spent an hour or so taking those things apart so I could use them to 
>>construct crunchy cicadas.  Tonight ~ wings!
>>

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