Sugar glass makes a great decoration for desserts!
- 1 3/4 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup light corn syrup
- 1/2 cup water
- olive oil (to spray the cooking sheet)
- 13x9 cooking sheet
- sauce pan
- candy thermometer
- hammer (if you want to make shreddered glass)
- Spray a cooking sheet with olive oil.
- Clip the candy thermometer to the sauce pan.
- Combine sugar, water and corn syrup in the sauce pan over medium-light heat.
- Stir until sugar is dissolved and starts boiling. Stop stirring when it starts boiling.
- Add food coloring as soon as it starts bubbling if you want to color it.
- As soon as the thermometer reaches 300F, turn off the heat and remove the sauce pan.
- Let it sit for a few seconds and pour it into the cooking sheet.
- Let it harden for 1-3 hours and then the glass is ready!
- Use hammer to break it up.
- Wait till it gets to 300F, you can increase the heat but don't take it out earier.
- It does feel like glass when it is set and broke, be careful.