{"id":989,"date":"2011-01-12T20:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T20:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/blog\/sugar-diamonds-candy-jewels\/"},"modified":"2018-05-21T17:16:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T17:16:48","slug":"sugar-diamonds-candy-jewels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/sugar-diamonds-candy-jewels.html","title":{"rendered":"Sugar Diamonds &#038; Candy Jewels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><\/span>Okay, you want a little bling or sparkle for a cake, and don&#8217;t know where to begin? There are special molds made just for that &#8211; molds for creating edible candy jewels for pastry. <\/p>\n<p>Depending on the material of the mold, they can be made with just about anything. If they are high temperature molds you can use them with a boiled sugar or isomalt mixture for hard candy-style diamonds and jewels. The molds can be made by yourself at home, too. If you feel a little less ambitious but still want sparkle, purchase ready-made candy diamonds and jewels to easily decorate your cake. <\/p>\n<p>Read more about my latest on PastySampler.com:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/Articles\/Pastry_Baking\/Sugar_Diamonds_Candy_Jewels.html\">Sugar Diamonds &amp; Candy Jewels<\/a>, including what they are made of, how the are made and decorating with them.<\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Vi-Whittington-Cooked-Sugar-Art\/dp\/097857141X?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pastrybaking-20&amp;link_code=bil&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"Vi Whittington Cooked Sugar Art\" src=\"http:\/\/ws.amazon.com\/widgets\/q?MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;WS=1&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ASIN=097857141X&amp;tag=pastrybaking-20\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=pastrybaking-20&amp;l=bil&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=097857141X\" style=\"border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important;\" width=\"1\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, you want a little bling or sparkle for a cake, and don&#8217;t know where to begin? There are special molds made just for that &#8211; molds for creating edible candy jewels for pastry. Depending on the material of the mold, they can be made&nbsp;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/sugar-diamonds-candy-jewels.html\">&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[268],"tags":[277],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p86M9B-fX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1253,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions\/1253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}