Hard Candy

This hard candy recipe is easy to customize with your favorite flavorings and food colorings for holiday gift-giving or to simply satisfy a sugar craving!

• Preparation Time: 5 mins
• Cooking Time: 25 mins
• Total Time: 30 mins
• Calories: 124 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 cup water
• cooking spray
• 1 tablespoon orange, or other flavored extract
• 1.5 cups light corn syrup
• 3.75 cups white sugar
• 0.5 teaspoon food coloring
• 0.25 cup confectioners' sugar for dusting

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Grease a cookie sheet with cooking spray.

Step 2

Let cool until hardened, about 15 minutes. Break into about 36 pieces and store in an airtight container.

Step 3

Without stirring, heat to 300 to 310 degrees F (149 to 154 degrees C), or until a small amount of syrup dropped into cold water forms hard, brittle threads.

Step 4

Remove from the heat and stir in flavored extract and food coloring. Pour onto the prepared cookie sheet. Dust top with confectioners' sugar.

Step 5

Stir white sugar, corn syrup, and water together in a medium heavy-bottomed saucepan. Cook, stirring, over medium heat until sugar dissolves, then bring to a boil.