Pulled Sugar Bow with Ribbons

Making a beautiful sugar bow to decorate a petit four or candy tray, for example, or to use as part of a showpiece, can be done fairly quickly — especially if you have pieces of aerated colored sugar left from previous sugarwork. If so, you will need only to pull the sugar back and forth a few times to bring back its sheen. To make one bow with ribbons, you need three or four pieces of colored sugar (for the best appearance one should be white) weighing about 12 ounces (340 g) each.