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!
Hard Candy Ornaments
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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.
Introduction
Hard candy consists of sugar and flavoring. The hard refers to the consistency of the candy, not the process of making it. hard candy is actually simple to make.
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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