Hard Candy

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 20
• 1 cup karo syrup
• 2 cups sugar
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 teaspoon of flavoring candy oil (more or less to your taste)
• food coloring (to desired color)
• confectioners' sugar
• butter

Recipe

• 1 mix syrup, sugar and water.
• 2 bring to hard/crack boil on candy thermometer.
• 3 stir in candy oil and food coloring. (watch about the steam coming off of the mixture, it can really get you).
• 4 butter the heat resistant surface you will be working on. (she had a marble candy board, i use a cookie sheet).
• 5 when cool enough to touch with hands (but not too cool or it will be too late), butter you hands and kitchen scissors and begin cutting pieces with scissors.
• 6 put pieces in a bowl of confection sugar (coats each piece from sticking to one another) and when you get alot in the bowl, skake it thru a stainer to get excess off.
• 7 this is a very, very fast paced thing! we always cut it to make small pieces, and we bent in any sharp edges to make it easier for the kids. i have poured it into the cookie sheet and as it sets up, you scour it with a pizza cutter. when completely cooled you can break it apart. it all depends on whether i have help or not.