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Learn how to make hard candy in your favorite flavors with this easy to follow recipe. You don't even need a candy thermometer! It's simple enough that your kids can help make it, and the finished candy makes a great gift.

36 · 15 minutes · Learn how to make hard candy in your favorite flavors with this easy to follow recipe. You don't even need a candy thermometer!

Ingredients

Condiments
  • 1/4 cup Corn syrup, Light
Baking & Spices
  • 1 Food coloring
  • 1 cup Granulated sugar
Oils & Vinegars
  • 1/2 tsp Flavoring oil
Liquids
  • 1/2 cup Water
There’s a handful of recipes I remember my mom making during the Christmas holidays. I remember some Christmas cherry cheesecake bars, snickerdoodles, peanut blossoms and this hard tack candy. I’ve always been candy crazy, so when I remembered this candy, I had to make it to share with you. This brings back many memories for me and I hope it does for you too.

63 · 25 minutes · There’s a handful of recipes I remember my mom making during the Christmas holidays. I remember some Christmas cherry cheesecake bars, snickerdoodles, peanut blossoms and this hard tack candy. I’ve always been candy crazy, so when I remembered this candy, I had to make it to share with you. This brings back many memories for me and I hope it does for you too.

Ingredients

Condiments
  • 1 cup Corn syrup
Baking & Spices
  • 1 Food coloring
  • 1 3/4 lbs Granulated sugar
  • 1/2 cup Powdered sugar
Oils & Vinegars
  • 1/8 oz Lorann flavoring oil
Liquids
  • 1 cup Water
Homemade Jolly Rancher Candies

Homemade Jolly Rancher Candies are sweet, a bit tart, and easy to make. Choose your own flavours and colours to customize it as you like!

Old Fashioned Suckers are the simple hard candy suckers you had as a kid. They are basic. They aren't the flashy swirled lollipops. But they are delicious and will take you back to your childhood.

20 · Old Fashioned Suckers are the simple hard candy suckers you had as a kid. They are basic. They aren't the flashy swirled lollipops. But they are delicious and will take you back to your childhood.

Ingredients

Condiments
  • 1/2 cup Corn syrup
Baking & Spices
  • 1 Food coloring
  • 2 cups Sugar
Oils & Vinegars
  • 1 Dram lorann oil flavor
Liquids
  • 1 cup Water
Old-Fashioned Hard Candy

2 · 40 minutes · The color of this old-fashioned hard candy is beautiful, and people are surprised by the wonderful watermelon flavor! —Amy Short, Milton, West Virginia

Ingredients

Condiments
  • 1 1/2 cups Corn syrup, light
Baking & Spices
  • 1/2 cup Confectioners' sugar
  • 3 3/4 cups Sugar
  • 1/4 tsp Watermelon flavoring or flavoring
Liquids
  • 1 cup Water
Other
  • 2 to 3 drops red food coloring or color of your choice
How To Make Hard Candy: Peppermint, Cinnamon & Orange

Don't be afraid to learn how to make hard candy. This recipe and tutorial is quick and easy and will make you into a hard candy pro in no time.

honey balls hard candy inspired by Outlander book 2!

1 · 20 minutes · These easy 5-ingredient honey balls are dusted with powdered sugar (cuts down on the stickiness) and can be made in any shape or size that you need.

Ingredients

Condiments
  • 1/4 cup Honey
  • 1/4 cup Lemon or lime juice, fresh
Baking & Spices
  • 3/4 cup Granulated sugar, white
  • 1 Powdered sugar
Liquids
  • 1/2 cup Water

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This easy homemade Peanut Brittle is an old-fashioned sweet, hard candy made on the stovetop with six simple  ingredients and roasted peanuts.  It’s a family favorite during the  holidays but can be enjoyed any time of year!
Turn your favorite cupcakes into edible art when you top them with shards of colorful hard candy covered in sprinkles.