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    Default why is my salt dough soggy :(

    did handprints in salt dough yesterday but its still soggy, feels like its melting does it need to go in a cold place to get hard like the garden? suggestions welcome xx
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    How long did you bake it for?

    I find leaving them in the oven when you have switched it of helps and also using a pizza tray help them to harden up.
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    Default bake it??????????????????????????????

    no one told me to bake it !!!!!!!!!! i thought it just went hard
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    I have always baked mine couple hours at 100 degrees.
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    you can bake it on a low heat, about 100-120, for 3 hours or leave it to air dry for 2-3 days.
    I've baked mine before but it rose, even though it's plain flour, and distorted the shapes, also the dough went a browny colour and wouldn't paint over, so now I just air dry it for about a week

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    that could be why then will bake them tomoro but as they are handprints and i wanted them to be tealight holders how will i fold the fingers up iyswim ??
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    You can bake them in the microwave too!
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    Quote Originally Posted by mrs robbie williams View Post
    that could be why then will bake them tomoro but as they are handprints and i wanted them to be tealight holders how will i fold the fingers up iyswim ??
    you could bake them draped over a egg cup like shape, and then the fingers would hang down.

    I do the dough handprint santa's/ Mine rose in the oven too - even in the oven i find they still take ages

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    i put mine in the oven at 100c for about 4 hours, they come out really good. somebody said about them on here, we made santa faces.

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    I know exactly your problem I did some hedge hog a few years back who nearly walked out by themselves

    I think you need to make sure you put all the salt in the dough as I'm sure I reduced it and to dry them out I would put them somewhere quite hot like over a radiator or really near to.

    I'm doing handprint next week and I don't want to bake them as they bubbled last time so hopefully it'll work :-)

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    baked them and they rose smelt nice when they were cooking though one is ok but the other is going to have to be done again and not be baked for so long
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    You could put each one in a rounded bottom bowl in the oven they will come out as a hand bowl and the low low heat won't damage a china bowl. i done leaf bowls this way with air drying clay.

 

 

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