How To Make Sugar Mice Food

HOW TO MAKE SUGAR MICE

Steps:

• Sift the icing sugar into a large bowl
• Whisk the egg white until white and foaming
• Stir evenly into the icing sugar
• Add the lemon juice and combine
• Get your hands in and bring the icing mixture together into a ball
• Turn onto a work surface lightly dusted with icing sugar and knead until it's pliable (if it's too dry add a little more lemon juice but go easy, if it's too wet add more icing sugar)
• Divide the mixture into two and add a few drops of pink colouring to one half, kneading until it is evenly combined
• Break off walnut sized pieces of icing dough and roll into a mouse shape (fat at the bottom, pointy at the nose)
• Pinch ears with your thumb and forefinger (or snip them in with the tips of a pair of scissorand shape - some of ours were a bit nibbled looking but it doesn't matter!
• Add chocolate sprinkles for eyes and noses and a piece of strawberry lace for a tail.
• Place them on the baking parchment on the baking tray and leave overnight to dry

SUGAR MICE

Steps:

• Separate the egg and whisk up the egg white until it is all nice and frothy.
• Sieve the sugar into the same bowl.
• Using a metal spoon start stirring, and stirring and stirring to make a dough
• If you want some coloured mice split the dough into three parts.In one add some red food colouring to make pink mice.In another add cocoa powder for fawn mice
• Divide up the dough into however many mice you want (size is up to you) and make a sort of short fat sausage shape out of each section. Roll at the front to get a pointy nose and pinch either side to get the ear shape.
• Using the strawberry liquorice lace push a tail into each mouse. You can cut tiny pieces to press in eas eyes or use tiny drops of food colouring gel.
• Put your mousy masterpieces on to baking paper/grease proof paper and on to a tray in the fridge overnight to set completely.

SUGAR MICE

Steps:

• Put the egg white in a large bowl and whisk until foamy. Stir in the lemon juice.
• Gradually stir in the icing sugar with a wooden spoon until really stiff, like dough. Or, dust the work surface with some icing sugar and knead the sugar into the mixture until you get the right consistency.
• Divide the mixture in half. Add a dot of pink food colouring to one half, then knead in to evenly distribute the colour. Add a tiny bit more colouring if you want a stronger colour. Leave the second half plain.
• Break off a walnut-sized piece of the mixture and roll into a rounded cone shape, then flatten one side so that the mouse can sit on a flat surface without toppling over. Pinch out little ears on top of the narrow end, then squeeze the same end into a nose. Press chocolate sprinkles into the face below the ears to make eyes. Cut a length of kitchen string about 4cm long, and push it into the round end of the mouse to make a tail.
• Use a cocktail stick to dab a tiny amount of pink food colouring onto the nose, then put the mouse on a baking sheet lined with baking parchment.
• Repeat the process with the remaining pink and white mixtures, then leave the mice to dry out for at least 12 hrs.

SUGAR MICE

Steps:

• Put the sugar and water into a pan, and heat gently until the sugar is dissolved.
• Add glucose, and boil until 240 degrees Fahrenheit/105 centigrade.
• Take from heat, and allow to cool until it starts to thicken.
• When cool enough to handle, work in the coloring, if you are using it, and knead it.
• Pat out into a square.
• Separate fondant into equal parts (1 inch squares work really well.).
• COVER! in a bowl, in a freezer bag, anything so it won't dry out. It gets irritating when it's dried out --
• Roll each piece between hands till it's nice and smooth.
• Stick the tails into the fondant.
• Shape into mice-shapes.
• Take a tiny bit of fondant, work in the cocoa powder or food coloring to make noses.Pink or brown noses :) your choice!
• Place on parchment and let dry for 24 hours. Keeps for ages, just keep them cool, dry, separate.

WHITE MICE COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream butter.
• Add sugar, flour and vanilla.
• Work with clean hands and nails.
• Add nuts.
• Use 1 1/2 teaspoons of dough (about the size of a regular marble) and shape into small mice (teardrop shape).
• Bake in a 350° oven for 10 minutes or until set.
• If you like larger mice, use 1 1/2 Tablespoons of dough (size of walnut or golf ball) Bake for 20 minutes.
• When cool, roll in powdered sugar.
• Baking time will be approximate, according to the size of the mice.
• Please watch your first batch and record the correct minutes for your size mice and oven temperature.

COCONUT CHRISTMAS MICE

Steps:

• Pulse coconut, confectioners' sugar and milk in a food processor until coconut is finely chopped. For each mouse, roll 1 tablespoon coconut mixture into a ball; taper 1 end to resemble a mouse. Attach sliced almonds for ears and licorice pieces for tails. Press miniature chocolate chips, tip side down, into place for eyes. Store in an airtight container.