You know me...a few days off of school and how better to spend the time than to invite all the neighborhood peeps over to make rock candy? Step 1: a trip to the store for 3 bags of sugar and some speciality flavorings!
Step 2: add an insane amount of sugar to water.
Step 2.1 (pick a color and flavor, change your mind, change it again, one more time and end up back with your first combo)
Step 3: Boil
Step 4: Attach your stick (pipe cleaner, string) to a pencil
Step 5: Pour into glass, insert stick and wait!
Here's where science gets fussy. This is what it's supposed to look like a mere 5-10 hours later. That is IF you have the sugar/water ratio exactly right. If you don't...well then you pour it back into the pan, add more sugar, boil again, pour back into cup only to realize you went too far and now have a solid block of sugar so you pour it back in the pan and add water and boil....you get the idea.
Once the ratio is perfected you achieve a quick sparkly success in just a few days time and end up with a yummy stick of flavored sugar. (yuck) Hmmmm...
A better idea is to send your kids back to school, grab some gals and order yourself one of these sugary confections!
My sincere apologies to those who have already visited and did not get treated to Frost City. My bad. In my defense I just learned about it but I will tell you it's worth the trip back. The above was the lilikoi and below was peach.
It's like a grown up version of shave ice...still icy but also creamy and not covered in syrup but with fresh fruit and little pearls of juicy stuff that pop in your mouth. Oh trust me, you will be seeing more photos of this!
So many other flavors to try...what's a girl to do?
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