Sugar Techniques

Many pastry chefs consider sugar work the pinnacle of their decorative art. One reason is surely the sheer beauty of skillfully made pulled- and blown-sugar pieces, which can be elaborate constructions of multicolored sugar flowers in blown-sugar vases, large sprays of sugar flowers cascading down the side of a wedding cake, or sugar baskets filled with sugar fruit and set on sugar pedestals wrapped with sugar ribbons and bows.