How To Make Candied Lemon Slices- Rosie's Dessert Spot

Hey guys, welcome to Rosie's Dessert Spot. Going straight into it in this tutorial we are making candied lemon slices. What you're going to need are some lemons and a slicer. If you have a slicer you can use a really sharp knife to create really thin slices of your lemons. Create as many as you need for your decorating project. And then what I've done is I've combined equal parts of water and sugar in a frying pan. You can do it in a regular saucepan, I just used a fry pan because it's a lot wider and so I can spread out lemons a lot easier. Mix the two together until the sugar is completely dissolved. This is basically just a sugar syrup. What I've done is I've added in some gel food colour in yellow as well because I wanted my lemons to have a really bright yellow colouring. This is fun because you could do this in any other colour, for example in purple, and then use something like apple slices, something nice and pale that would absorb the colour. And you can make really fun coloured candied slices with other fruits. Pop in your lemons once that mixture is coming to a simmer or to a boil and then when they're all in there what you can do is bring it down to a simmer and allow those to cook through for at least 35 to 45 minutes. Mine stayed on for about 45 minutes or so and you know they're going to be ready when they look a little something like this. So they're totally translucent, well pretty much totally translucent, the skin is pretty translucent. And then what you want to do is allow them to dry completely and I just popped them onto a sheet of baking paper. You can dry them up a little bit in the oven as well on very very low temperature just to speed up the process. And then use them to decorate your cakes as you like. I have a cake linked in the above of where I used these for decoration. Thanks for watching and if you haven't subscribed don't forget to do so. We upload a new cake decorating video every Tuesday. Bye for now!