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welcome to how to cook that i'm ann reardonand you are going to love today's dessert. it's just so pretty and look at all of thosebeautiful colours as the light reflects on it and it's easy to make once you know how. i wanted to make bowls out of sugar that looklike a colourful splash so first i tried covering a bowl with plastic wrap and pour the hotsugar syrup over the top. but when i did that the plastic wrap justmelted and it ended up the whole thing stuck to the bowl, so that was a total fail. so then experiment number 2, i thought abouttrying a silicon glove stretched over a bowl because you use silicon gloves when you'redoing hot sugar work but the sugar was too

hot and it just melted the silicon glove. so, not to be put off, i thought i'd try onemore experiment. so experiment number 3, i thought i'd trywith a balloon. now i know what you're thinking ... if youput something hot by a balloon and ... pop ... argghhh! yes it does pop! but i remember seeing an experiment ages agowhere if you fill the balloon with water first and then put some heat underneath it, thewater inside the balloon disperses that heat so the balloon doesn't pop.

isn't that just incredible that you can havesomething that would normally just melt and pop and it's just not popping at all. now i'm sure if that's going to work withsugar syrup because 1.) the sugar syrup might be hotter and 2.) we're putting it over abigger surface of the balloon. but you only know if you try so i'm goingto use helium quality balloons and i'm going to test them uninflated first. this is a metallic one i don't know if thatmakes any difference but we'll pour it over the top and it seems to be lasting and holdingup ok. there isn't a hole in it like there was assoon as i did it with the glove and with the

glad wrap so ... hopefully that's a good sign. now we need to fill the balloon with water. we don't want to overfill it, you want theballoon to not be stretch too thin. well that's my theory that that's going towork anyway. take it off the tap and let out a little bitof the water and that's so we don't have any air bubbles in the balloon because when wetip it upside down, the air bubbles will go to the top and i want that heat to get dispersedby the water. i don't want air sitting at the top of it. and then dry it using a paper towel.

and now we need to make the actual sugar syrup. to make that you will just need sugar, waterand glucose syrup. and i'll put all those recipe quantities onthe howtocookthat.net website for you and i'll link to that below. stir that over high heat until the sugar crystalsdissolve and then wash down the sides of the pan using a pastry brush. and the reason you do that is to get the sugarcrystals off the edge. if you don't then later, once you've got thesyrup, it can make it all crystalise back out so you won't have a nice clear smoothbowl you will just have this crunchy mess

instead. heat that up to 150c or 302f then immediatelyturn off the heat and add in some liquid food colour. then pour it carefully all over the balloonand let it drip down. i was pretty sure at this stage that thiswas going to pop but it didn't pop to my surprise! it just stayed intact. now you need to make sure that the bowl underneathis obviously smaller than the balloon so the drips can fall down freely and have bakingpaper underneath so that you don't stick the whole thing to your counter top.

now don't worry about the sugar there thatyou've attached to the bowl, if you just soak that in hot water that will come off no problem. once it is cooled, take it off the bowl andmake a small cut near the knot. and then let that water drain out slowly,trying to make sure that you don't get any of it spraying up on the sugar because sugarand water don't mix very well together and it will make it soggy. and the balloon is going to slowly deflateand then fall out of your sugar bowl. now you can experiment using different coloursand mixtures of colours. to make it multi-colour all you need to dois get your saucepan and put a few different

drops of colours, so maybe red, yellow, blueand then mix it together just in each area, don't mix the whole thing together. and then as you pour it over the balloon thosecolours are just going to blend together and make a pretty pattern. i love the way the light just shines throughthese sugar bowls, it's like they're coloured glass or something. it makes awesome patterns on the plate andthe spikes up the top make it look like it's just a gravity-defying splash. and you can put whatever you like inside.

i'm making really easy ice cream sundaes. all i'm adding is some scoops of ice cream,a little sprinkle of fresh fruit, some chocolate ganache and some more fruit on top. if you use red and yellow the bowl looks abit like flames leaping up there, i really like that. and the plain blue is pretty too. let me know what you think would go well insidethese. now these are best made on the day you wantto use them and if you make them in the morning, just store them in an empty airtight container,don't put the desserts inside them because

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