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Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup light corn syrup
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 1/2 teaspoons candy oil, extract of your choice (vanilla, mint, cherry etc.)
- gel paste food coloring (optional)
Method
- Tools:
- Candy jewel and diamond molds.
- Prepare your molds by spraying them lightly with nonstick cooking spray. Wipe out the inside with a paper towel, so that only the thinnest layer of oil remains.
- Combine the sugar, corn syrup, and water in a medium saucepan and stir gently.
- Cook over medium-high heat and brush down the sides with cold water and a.
- clean brush. Cook to 295F to 309F or a Hard Crack stage. If you are cooking without a candy thermometer, have a small bowl of ice water next to the cooking sugar. Grab a teaspoon full of the hot sugar mixture and pour into the ice water. If the sugar is hard and snaps, it is at the Hard Crack stage. Remove from heat.
- Pour into prepared molds. Cool, allow to harden and remove from molds.
