Recipes for Hard Candy Making

It has been a common observation that people who love food usually love cooking as well and keep trying their hand at different recipes. And there are, no doubt, unlimited recipes out there to try. Either it is something sour and spicy or it is something sweet and full of sugar, everyone wants to try at least once. If you are one of them, who love sweets and candies and also love to make them at home then let’s take a look below about the way to make hard candy.
Ingredients
• White sugar (3 3/4 cups)
• Confectioners’ sugar for dusting (1/2)
• Water (1 cup)
• Light corn syrup (1 ½)
• Orange or any other flavored extract (1/2)
• Food coloring (1/2)-optional
Method
First of all, the recipe for hard candy would require you to take a saucepan of medium size and then have to put white sugar, corn syrup and water and stir all of these. Now keep cooking and stirring till the time sugar gets dissolved and starts boiling. But make sure that you cook it on a medium heat. Now once it starts getting boiled, keep heating, but without stirring it from 300 to 310 degrees F (149 to 154 degrees C) and keep heating till the small amount of syrup dropped in cold water starts forming hard and brittle threads. Then remove it from heat and add the flavored extract and food coloring too if you want. Next step is placing a greased cookie sheet, and dusting it with the confectioners’ sugar. Then leave it to cool and then break down into pieces. Make sure you store the candy in an airtight container.
If this recipe of hard candy seems difficult to you then here is another one for you.
Ingredients
Sugar (3 3/4 cup)
Light corn syrup (1 1/2 cup)
Water (1 cup)
Lorann Flavoring oil (1 teaspoon)
Food Coloring (optional)
Method
The very first step of the hard candy recipe is to have the 18 x 24" strip of heavy duty foil sprinkled with powdered sugar. Then mix sugar, water and corn syrup in a saucepan of medium size. Place the saucepan over medium heat and keep stirring until the sugar dissolves. Then next step is to boil, but this time without stirring, and you need to keep boiling it till it reaches a temperature of 310 degrees or when the drops of syrup would start forming hard and brittle threads in the cold water. After this, remove the pan from the heat and then stir it in flavoring oil and coloring too, if you would like to. Cool it and then break it into pieces.
So, try out at home and enjoy this simple and easy recipe hard candy.


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