Plus, learn how to make your own. Sugarcane isn’t indigenous to Mexico, but rather a product of colonialism. The concept for sugar skulls, in fact, originated in Palermo, Italy, where sugary ...

Maggie Wolters-Williams makes sugar skulls for families to place on their ofrendas. Every year, Maggie Wolters-Williams’ house is filled with white skulls waiting their turn to go to other homes for ...

Decorating the sugar skulls is one of the kids’ favorite activities in the household of Mexican cookbook author Yvette Marquez-Sharpnack. Her kids like to draw on them with royal icing, adding their ...

Sugar skulls, also known as Calaveras, are decorative representations of human skulls that are typically associated with Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead. There’s a lot of talk of Halloween — ...

Sugar skulls, also called calaveritas de azúcar (or calaveritas, for short), are literally skulls made from sugar. They’re found in Mexico and Mexican households for the Day of the Dead, or Día de los ...