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If you make your own hard candy, you can tailor the flavors precisely to your taste. Grab your candy thermometer and get ready to learn how to make hard candy!
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Hard Candy Ornaments
After you've made hard candy, you can use it to make Christmas ornaments or light catchers. This video demonstrates how to use crushed hard candy, cookie cutters, a cookie sheet and an oven to make ornaments. The ornaments take about 8 minutes to cook, and must be cooled completely before removing from the cookie cutters.
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Step 1: What You'll Need to Make Hard Candy
- Candy thermometer
- 2 cups sugar
- 2/3 cup light corn syrup
- 3/4 cup hot water
- 1 teaspoon flavoring oil
- Food coloring
Step 2: How to Make Hard Candy
- Combine the sugar, corn syrup and water in large saucepan.
- Clip a candy thermometer on the side of the pan, making sure the bulb is totally submerged and the thermometer is situated so you can read it easily without moving the pan.
- Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until the sugar has totally dissolved. This should take about 5 minutes.
- Stop stirring and let the mixture come to a boil, keeping the heat at medium. This should take about another 5 minutes.
- When it boils, raise the temperature to high and begin watching the candy thermometer.
- When the temperature reaches exactly 300 degrees, take the pan off the heat.
- Wait until the mixture stops boiling and add the flavoring oil and a few drops of food coloring.
- Mix it well.
- Pour the mixture onto a greased cookie sheet, spreading into an even layer.
- Allow the candy to cool until hard. This will take about an hour.
- Break it into pieces, and enjoy!
Step 3: Hard Candy Tips and Variations
- You can purchase candy molds, and pour the sugar mixture into greased molds in order to produce shaped candies. Make sure the molds are designed for hard candy;some chocolate molds will melt if used for the hot sugar solution.
- If giving the candy as a gift, consider wrapping the pieces in cellophane candy wrappers.
- Make several different batches of candy, in different colors and flavors
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