The following post was originally featured on Live Colorful and written by Lali Valverde,who is piece of POPSUGAR Select Latina.
One of the coolest things in the tradition of the Day of the Dead, besides papel picado, or are the sugar skulls. The sugar skulls' significance is a bit gloomy,I bear to confess it; they are a reminder that the only certainty for a human being is death. The bewitching thing approximately this belief is that death to the ancient Mesoamericans was a stage of life that extended to another level, something not scary at all.
The sugar skulls are typically made with sugar, and water and meringue powder and decorated with frosting of different colors. You can find sugar skulls in stores or "tienditas" one or two weeks before you need to put up your altar or "ofrenda" for the Day of the Dead,which is the first and second day of November each year.
This year, we could not wait to see them in the stores, and so we found a sugar skull mold on one of our trips around the city and decided to try to make some,but not with sugar, with chocolate!Head over to Live Colorful for the full chocolate skulls recipe!
Source: popsugar.com