Making your own diorama sugar easter eggs
If you've ever seen diorama sugar easter eggs sitting in a candy shop window, you know exactly how magical they look. There is something almost hypnotic about peering through that little sugar window into a tiny, crystallized world of miniature bunnies and icing flowers. They feel like a relic from another era, mostly because they are. My grandmother used to keep one on her sideboard every year, and I remember being convinced that if I looked hard enough, the little plastic scenes inside might actually move. ...