Sugar Sticks

Sugar sticks are spaghetti-thin strings of sugar that can be used to garnish desserts in a number of ways. You can use the decorations as is or warm them and bend them into a graceful, curved shape. Sugar sticks, straight or curved, look great simply placed atop, leaning against, or partially inserted into a dessert, but the most eye-catching result comes from bending the soft sugar and looping it through small holes in a tuile paste or Florentina decoration. To accomplish this you must wor