How to make colored crystals from sugar. How to make sugar crystals on a stick

Almost all of us at school grew salt crystals and then licked them. Not very tasty. But if you modify the recipe a little, you will get an unusual delicacy.

Sugar crystal is a delicious treat for your child that can be prepared at home. A delicious sugar crystal can be used to decorate any dessert or simply stir tea.

To make sugar crystals you will need:

2 glasses of water;
5 glasses of sugar;
wooden sticks for mini-kebabs, 5-6 pieces (you can take cocktail straws, but they hold the crystal worse);
thick paper 5-6 pieces;
transparent glasses;
pot.

Sugar crystals on a stick: instructions

First, over heat, dissolve 2-3 tablespoons of sugar in ¼ cup of water to obtain a thick syrup. It is better to make the syrup thicker. Now take a stick and smear the place where the crystal will grow in syrup. The length of the lubricated part should be approximately half the glass in which the crystal will grow, since part of the solution will evaporate within a week.
Then sprinkle sugar on a piece of paper and roll a stick over it so that the sugar crystals stick properly. You need to make sure that the sugar sticks evenly, otherwise the crystal will grow uneven.

We make several sticks and leave them to dry for at least 5-6 hours. It is imperative to let them dry, otherwise, when further lowered into water, all the sugar will fall off the stick.

3. Then mix 2 cups of water and 2.5 cups of sugar in a saucepan.

Place the pan over medium heat and heat until the sugar is completely dissolved. There is no need to turn the heat on high, because if the sugar burns, the syrup will turn brown. Then pour the remaining 2.5 cups of sugar into the same pan and dissolve it as well. Then set the syrup aside for 15 minutes.

4. We need to put sheets of paper on our sticks so that the stick in the glass does not fall and the crystals grow evenly. We take cut sheets of thick paper and carefully make holes in them so that the paper sits tightly on the straw.

5. We take our pre-prepared sticks and carefully, so that the sugar does not fall off, insert them into the sheets.

6. Make sure the syrup is hot, otherwise the crystals will not grow. Pour our syrup into glasses or jars. It is better to take transparent dishes, otherwise children will take chopsticks out of containers several times a day and see what has grown.

7. If you want to get colored sticks, you can add beetroot juice or other dyes to the syrup.

8. Then we take what we got and lower it into the glass so that the workpiece does not touch either the bottom or the walls, and the paper becomes the lid. We lower it carefully so that the sugar does not come off from the workpiece.

9. We place all the sticks in our glasses. The resulting syrup is enough for 5-6 glasses.

If you wish, you can add a separate dye to each glass, then the sugar sticks will be multi-colored.

10. Now comes the hard part! You have to wait at least a week for the crystals to grow. You cannot take them out of the glasses or twist them inside the glass, otherwise the crystals will not grow. But you can watch through the glass how they grow, notice which one grows faster and which one is the most beautiful. And, of course, come up with a use for wands with crystals:

you can stir the tea,
put on fruit and decorate dessert,
lick like a lollipop
decorate the cake.

20.09.2013

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January 27, 1944 is the day of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the fascist blockade.
76th anniversary of the Leningrad Victory.

It was a platoon of female sappers. They affectionately called him “the girls’ team.”
Together with their dogs, they went through the entire war, worked as messengers on the front line, participated in breaking the siege of Leningrad, delivered goods to the front line and took the wounded from the battlefield. They cleared roads and populated areas from mines. They cleared mines from Leningrad and Pskov, the Karelian Isthmus and Estonia.
This topic is about the Leningrad girl platoon of sappers and their combat partners and friends - dogs.

Topics dedicated to the Leningrad Victory

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I recently complained to a friend that I dreamed of living first until my child’s nap, and then until his nighttime nap. I'm counting the hours. It feels like only after the child falls asleep does my own life begin. We are one and three years old. I thought it would get easier after a year, but it only got harder. Strength is already running out.
And then she said one thing that really offended me. That if I get up from the child, then I don’t love him. That you can’t wait until you fall asleep, you need to enjoy every minute of communication, as she does with her two children. It's like waiting for someone to come and get rid of my child for good. But this is not true at all!! I just need a break. The time when they don’t grab me by the tit, don’t suck me, don’t yell in my ear, don’t demand to play, sing a song, etc. I didn’t know that every minute of mine would be occupied by him. The children of my friends could at least sometimes play on their own, without their mothers, but not mine. He yells even when I go out and excuse myself to the toilet without him.
And on the one hand, I’m offended that my friend said that. Since I’m tired, there’s no point in pretending to be a loving mother. On the other hand, I really love him very much and don’t regret anything! But I'm so tired... Please tell me that I'm a normal mother, that everything is fine with me.

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On the one hand, the topic is chatty, on the other hand, it is important for me. I’ll try to write in such a way that it’s clear what I’m talking about. It might be long, but still...
We have two parents, me and my older sister. My sister looks like my mother, I think she’s prettier than me, I’m more like my dad in appearance. Previously, in adolescence and youth, it was not clearly clear who I looked more like, but I always had complexes about my appearance. Now that I’m in my fifties, I look at the changes in my appearance and understand that over the years I’m becoming my father’s copy, which I don’t really like. As a man, my dad was not beautiful, but maybe in his youth he had a difficult character. Mom needs to erect a monument for the fact that she has been living with him for more than forty years. But this is not particularly relevant to the matter, it is to understand the scale of the “severity”. I always thought that my character was not that bad. Now, again with age, I understand that I take many traits from my dad, naturally unconsciously. Even my mother says that over the years it gets harder and harder with you, your character is similar to your father. I really don’t like this, I try to control myself and correct my behavior, but it doesn’t always work. I am very afraid that the genes will really work in old age, and I will become as unbearable as my father (stubborn, rude, selfish), but also in appearance... I always dreamed of being outwardly similar to my mother ((((. And here...
Do you think that you really can’t put your finger on genes, as they say, or is there something else that can be done?

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A friend called me yesterday. Consult. Her son is 16 years old. Recently he confessed to her that he was in love with a classmate. In the 10th grade I moved to another school. He says he saw her and that’s it, he realized that “this is the most beautiful girl, with the most beautiful eyes in the world...” Just a year ago, this friend told me that her son told her and her husband: “There is no love! You have a habit! You live for children..." And now he is tormented by love, suffers, writes poetry... Asks his mother for advice... Should he confess or not?
I tell my friend: “Let him decide for himself. In such matters there is no right or wrong decision. Let him do as his heart tells him...”
The topic is chatty... Have your children shared their experiences of love with you? And what did you advise them...

I'll show you a simple and funny chemical experiment. We used to make it at school, just take salt and grow salt crystals. In this same example, we will take sugar and grow crystals from it. This will be a candy that you can eat at the end, which is good news.

Ingredients you need to make sugar crystals

- 380 ml. water,
- 1 kg sugar,
- wooden sticks - skewers,
- clothespins,
- transparent glass cups - glasses (other utensils are possible).

Making sugar crystals

Place water in a saucepan on the stove and heat it up a little. Add sugar and stir until completely dissolved. If it does not dissolve, heat it a little more and so on until completely dissolved without a residue.
Important: Do not boil the water with sugar and, if possible, use a lower temperature.
Our main task is to completely dissolve the sugar with minimal heat.

Prepare the sticks on which you will grow crystals

Dip the sticks in water and roll them a little in powdered sugar. Let dry on a plate in a warm place. This is the base on which the sugar crystals will crystallize from the water.

Only after the water has cooled, pour it into cups and add food coloring as desired. I poured it into several glasses and added different colored dyes.
Place the sticks in the cups and secure them with a clothespin in the center. The chopsticks should not touch the edges of the cup.

We are waiting for the crystals to grow

It takes several days to grow crystals. I advise you to put all the cups out of reach. Preferably in the dark. Cover to prevent dust from entering. Wait a few days, periodically monitoring the process.

Crystals begin to form. Sugar also crystallizes on the surface of the glass.

The final stage is drying the crystals

After all the crystals have grown, you need to get them out by breaking the surface that has formed. And place in an empty glass to dry out excess liquid. This will take about a day; everything dried overnight for me.

You can try!
Beautiful and appetizing lollipops beckon you to put them in your mouth. So feel free to enjoy.
You can make small crystals using toothpicks and shot glasses.

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These precious stones have firmly occupied their niche in cake decor. Just look at the beauty you can create using geodes!

It turns out that making such a miracle is not so difficult. The lesson I prepared proves this.

What we need:

isomalt;
food coloring;
silicone mat (one long or two);
metal cutting for cookies circle (I have a diameter of 10 cm);
Small metal cutting oval or circle (I have an oval, about 3-4 cm in length);
A thick-bottomed ladle and a teaspoon;
kandurin (vodka or alcohol for dilution);
brush.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

How to create a geode:

Step 1. Place the isomalt in a saucepan and melt it over low heat.Let's not let it boil!After the isomalt crystals have completely melted, add the dye we need and mix.

Step 2. Remove from heat and pour our mixture onto a silicone mat. We do this three times - we need three caramel plates at the output - transparent (that is, not colored), light purple and dark purple.

Step 3. After the plates have hardened, place each one individually on a silicone mat and cover it with another mat. We knock with a hammer, breaking our plate into small parts. We do this with all the records.

Step 4. We place a large round cutout on the mat and place a small one inside.

Step 5. Place a layer of dark “glass” around the small hole, then a layer one tone lighter.

Step 6. Fill the entire surface with a small amount of melted isomalt, lightly sprinkling it onto the surface with a spoon.When everything hardens, remove the cuttings.

Step 7 Place transparent “glass pieces” in a circle next to the light layer and sprinkle isomalt on top in the same way for setting. Wait for it to harden.

Step 8 We dilute kandurin in vodka or alcohol and paint the edge of our ring with a brush.

Amethyst rings are ready!

From the momscraftyspace blog

I suggest you grow sugar crystals. It will be very interesting to do this with your children!
Because such crystals are not only an unusual sweetness, but also a study of chemistry,
and children will remember the fun, tasty, sweet, colorful chemical reaction for the rest of their lives.

We will need:

wide-necked jars or glasses,
wooden skewers, clothespins,
food colors, flavors,
4 glasses of water, 10 glasses of sugar
and a little patience))

Manufacturing process

Pour 4 cups of water into a saucepan and add 4 cups of sugar.
put on fire (note that the solution will increase in volume, take a larger pan),
Bring to a boil over medium heat and add the rest of the sugar while stirring regularly.

When the sugar has all dissolved, set the pan off the heat for 15 minutes.

While our solution is cooling, prepare the sticks.
Soak them in water then put them in sugar to start
formation of crystals, the sticks are wet - the sugar will stick.
After this, be sure to let the sticks with the stuck sugar dry completely.
if the sticks are even slightly damp, you won’t succeed,
when you place them in a hot sugar solution,
all the sugar will fall off and new crystals will have nothing to grow on.

Pour sugar syrup into glass jars or glasses, add food coloring.
Slowly lower the sticks into the solution and secure with clothespins.
Make sure that the chopsticks do not touch either the bottom of the jar or each other,
There should be a distance between them for crystals to grow.

Place the jars in a warm or sunny place.

Aaaand....wait, wait, wait and wait some more.
The crystals will be ready in about a week.

I will add from myself.
Once upon a time I was brought from abroad a beautiful box in which
several varieties of tea and sugar sticks like this were discovered -
from white and brown sugar. I stirred freshly brewed tea,
sweetening...And I also liked to just gnaw on them))
So you can take the idea on board and create an original and delicious gift,
combining such sweet sticks and a tea mixture, also prepared with my own hands.
But in this case it is better not to use powder dyes,
They are still harmful and will color the tea in unnatural colors.