Brrrr. It's been a cold winter, and I'm already dreaming about Summer...and miles of sunny, sandy beach. Ahhhh. To help me get in the spirit, I found these cool beach scene cupcakes that are covered with neat edible sand, and it got me thinking: how many different ways are there to make edible sand? Lots, as I've found out! The first time I saw sweet sand, it was made from simple brown sugar, and that was that. I always thought that sounded a little too sweet, adding sugar to an already sweet treat. Then I found out that you can crush up vanilla wafer cookies, or graham crackers, and send them through a sieve, and there you go! Tasty sand that 's not gritty like brown sugar! I looked up how these cupcakes were made, and the decorator took the graham cracker idea one step further, by adding a little white, a little yellow, and just a pinch of black sanding sugar--get it, "sanding" sugar? Hee hee--to give it a more natural, variegated look. Pretty neat, if you ask me!
