Miniature Balloon Sugar Bowls | How To Cook That

Miniature Balloon Sugar Bowls | How To Cook That

Welcome to How To Cook That I'm Ann

Reardon and today I'm in my mini kitchen

which is only 1/12 of the normal scale

it is tiny and you guys requested that I

try and make miniature sugar bowls if

you're new around here to fill you in I

invented balloon drip sugar bowls back

in 2016 but that was using

normal-sized balloons that I'm not sure

if it's even possible to make the

miniature size but let's find out

together weigh out your sugar and tip it

into a saucepan then take that to the

sink and add just enough water to make

it look like wet sand oops that's a

little bit much it'll be okay...

light your stove close it up and add

your pan to the heat. Leave that

unstirred for the sugar to dissolve and

while that is cooking put some baking

paper on to your bench then put a bowl

down to hold your balloon the right way

up and this is filled with water. If you

remember from the original video that I

did the water helps to disperse the heat...

with it being this small though there's

not much water in it so it might not

cool it enough to stop the balloon from

popping and I don't really want to have

sugar all over my mini kitchen but you

guys asked for it so I'm going to try!

Once the sugar is boiled for a while it

will start to turn golden so quickly at

that point you need to add in your

coloring. I'm just using a tiny bit of

pink ... wow the heat is going up that tiny

spoon very fast then we have to pour

that over the balloons ... here we go the

moment of truth are they going to pop??

They're looking good 😊I don't think they're going

to ... I think they're gonna hold. We

definitely needed the baking paper

underneath that to protect the counter

though and now we just have to leave

them to cool. To get your pan clean just

fill it with water and then you can just

leave that to one side and the sugar

will dissolve in about an hour or you

could spend ages trying to scrub it off

but this way it just magically cleans itself.

These are so tiny they have cooled

pretty quickly. Turn the tap to the side

take your balloon over to the sink and

make a tiny cut with scissors try and

get all that water down the sink

preferably not all over your kitchen and

you'll see that balloon is just going

down and as it gets to the end there

just give it a bit of a pull and pull

the balloon out and it worked! We have a

mini balloon bowl. Do the same with the

other one I don't have any miniature

scissors but even if I did I don't think

I could get my fingers to actually work

with them because they'd be too small.

You can store your balloon bowls in an

airtight container until you're ready to

use them. I like to fill mine with a few

scoops of ice cream ...

and a generous drizzle of chocolate

ganache you can make this just by mixing

equal parts by weight of hot cream and

some milk chocolate and stir it until

it's smooth. Add some freshly chopped

fruit ... raspberries and strawberries are

always nice together and then a

sprinkling of chopped nuts.

So yes you can make miniature sugar

bowls. I think these would look fabulous

in a party you'd need to make lots of

them of course and fill them with

something that doesn't melt maybe a

little piping of Chantilly cream and a

fresh raspberry on top of each one that

would be lovely.

or something chocolaty you use your

imagination.