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How to Make Candy at Home

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Make candy at your own home and by your own hand. It is not a tough task. I would be a fun-loving task. It would be very economic making candy at home. You can save lot of money in parties and events. Which you usually spend on candy. Kids enjoy and love candy mostly. In every party and generally at home also. The recipe is not for kids. Because it is hot and young people cannot handle the hotness. It may burn you. So, making candy is the task by adults.

Watch: HOW TO MAKE CHOCOLATE CANDIES

You can candy for any event. Like I have a special event coming up at my home. Whenever there is a birthday party. Or any other event at your home or coming up soon you can make candy at your own home. It will be very economic and hygienic.

Now, I quickly jump to the recipe.

The ingredients you will need to make candy are:

  • 600g (21.16 ounces) sugar or 2 and 3/4 sugar cups.
  • 200mL (6.76 fluid ounces) water or 3/4 cups of water plus 2 tsp of water.
  • 100g (3.53 ounces) corn syrup or glucose syrup or 1/4 cup plus 2 tsp of glucose syrup or corn syrup.
  • 1/16th teaspoon of cream of tartar.
  • A candy thermometer.
  • Flavor of your own choice.
  • Food color of your own choice. 
  • Yellow color
  • Lemon flavoring.
  • Lemon fizzer 2 table spoon.
  • 2 table spoons of sherbet.

Process of Basic Candy
Take a pan. Place it on the stove. Turn on the flame. Add sugar, water and glucose syrup into the pan. Make sure the flame is high. Stir it well. If you find any sugar particle on the side of the pan, wash it down by using a wet pastry brush.

The next step is turn on the oven. Pre heat it at 100C temperature. And also place a tray lined with non-stick baking paper in it. So, that the tray will get warm.

Your mixture should get boil continuously and check the temperature after a while by using candy thermometer. When the temperature reaches 150C. it is done. Turn off the flame now. Add cream of tartar in it now and stir it well. So, that the tartar get dissolve into it properly. Now the candy is ready. Place out it in a pan and leave it to cool down on room temperature.

Process of Sherbet filled Candy
for making the sherbet filled candy the first few steps are the same as for the candy. Do all the steps as you did in the process of making candy. The next and the change step would be adding yellow food color.

When you are finished with the first all these steps. The next thing you have to do is pour it into the warm tray which were in your oven. Tray must be lined with baking paper. Protect your hands from hotness. Wear cotton gloves covered in silicon gloves so you cannot burn.

Fold the butter paper from the edges of the candy. Center should be lift up then, pull it out then fold it back in. It is a special technique to make it shiny and opaque. So,pull it more you can. If you want your candy transparent then do not pull it much. Put it back in the tray. Flatten it and put back into oven. 

Stretch it into a rectangle shape. Now it is time for adding sherbet. Add a generous amount of sherbet in to center and then bring the sides up. Cover it from all the sides. Pit it back in oven for next 30 seconds just. After that bring it out and stretch it in long snake shape. Place it aside. Give some time to make harden. And cut into small pieces. Enjoy the candy.

Candy Making for Beginners

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The most favorite thing of anyone whether a kid or an adult candy. Yes, the hot yummy sweet is candy liked by everyone. And if you have kids at your home the you need candies every time. You can buy candies from store but the good thing I suggest you to make them by your own hand. Making candy at home will be economical and easy. You can make at home how much you want. You can make candy for your own self, kids and for any party or event. Making candy is not a tough job. It is totally fine whether you are experienced in cooking or you are a novice. Making candy will be a great fun for beginners especially.

Here are some tips and instructions for making candy for both beginners and experienced people. 

Common Ingredients for Making Candy

Always remember whenever you want to cook, bake or make something the most significant factors are ingredients and the procedure you follow. Always try to find out the best ingredients so that you can make perfect candy. Taste is very important to all of us. Best ingredients ensure you for the best taste. And the steps you follow in making candy will give you a perfect result for texture, firmness and color. So, go with the best chocolate and sugar. These two ingredients play vital role in making candy. By selecting best chocolate and sugar the results will be delicious and yummy. Always remember there is huge difference between regular sugar and other sweeteners. Pick up the best cream. Buy nuts if your kids like them in candy. There are different kinds of chocolates so pick the desired one.

Here I only guide you about sugar and chocolate. I will school you later for other ingredients.  

Sugar and its working

If you are a novice and nervous about making candy. Do not get afraid. No one is experienced from start. It is not a rocket science. You have to be attentive about ingredients and the recipe you follow. In the confectionery world the ingredients and procedure play vital role. You may have seen different procedure for making candy. But do not get confused. The candy that is made up of sugar and sugar syrup. Boil sugar and water together. For making sugar syrup you have to boil sugar and water together. For this purpose, you need a candy thermometer to check the level of hotness of water. Or you can ignore candy thermometer if you are familiar with cold water and temperature of the required water. So, you have to follow the steps as they have mentioned.  

Another important thing is, some conventional recipes for making candy require candy to be pulled. As in the case of making candy by ‘taffy’ or ‘ribbon candy’. For pulling candy you need to do practice. For making perfect one. You cannot make perfect candy in first attempt by pulling it. It will be easy for you once you make grip on it.  

Chocolate and its working

Most of the candies like by kids and adults also are made up of chocolates. So, after sugar chocolate is another important and common candy ingredient. You should know how to work with chocolate for getting the best result. You will have to do some common tasks with your chocolate. It is important to know how to melt chocolate and how much it should be melted. You need to be careful regarding temperature in melting chocolate. It is according to your recipe whether you need thick melted chocolate or thin chocolate. Stir continuously while melting chocolate. This is the important step. Add little milk in chocolate while melting it. You can do mistakes if you are doing it first time. But you will get experienced after doing it 2 or 3 times. So, do not worry about melting chocolate.

Equipment required for Making Candy 

Usually do not need some specialized equipment for making candy. You can make candy by using your general kitchen tools and utensils. That are already available in your kitchen. But if you are a beginner in making candy then the most important equipment you will need is candy thermometer. It is important because the temperature of the sugar syrup and chocolate is important. If you make candy regularly at home then it is important for you. Buy candy thermometer. It will be useful for your rest of cooking and baking.