Pink Musk Sticks

These pink candy sticks can also stand on your cake as decorations.

Pink musk sticks.

They are also called musk sweets and musk lollies. 50 grams of liquid glucose glucose syrup. They re made mostly of musk essence gelatin and icing sugar which gives them a semi soft and powdery fondant like feel. Musk sticks are fairy pink cylinders that resemble extruded toothpaste.

To make this semi soft candy all you need to do is provide yourself with the ingredients below. Most of the above snacks will evoke nostalgic moans or at least smiles but there s one primary school treat that s still as divisive as ever. Grate about 8 musk sticks using the fine side of a cheese grater and then add to the icing and mix through well. Just make sure you cut them into smaller lengths.

Decorate each cake with the icing using a piping bag. Musk sticks are a popular confection in australia and new zealand available from many different suppliers they consist of a semi soft stick of fondant usually pink and often extruded with a ridged cross section in the shape of a star their flavour and aroma is quite floral reminiscent of musk perfume. Musk sticks ingredients list. In 1927 a writer for the australian worker lamenting the disappearance of lollies from their childhood 25 years earlier was relieved that pink curly musk sticks can still be had.