Homemade Suckers
"This
is great, I'm sure the kids and I will enjoy it all very much. Keep up
the good work!"
Homemade
suckers or homemade lollipops (whichever you call them)are perfect for
any holiday or birthday. Younger kids can still help with certain steps
but let the adult do the cooking on the stove and any handling
afterwards. Here is how one mom got her 4 year old involved in helping.
Thank you Cindy G. for sharing!
Recipe for
Homemade Suckers
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup water
1/3 light corn syrup
1/2-1 1/2 teaspoons flavoring
Food coloring
Put
your sucker molds with the sticks in them on wax paper or a greased
cookie sheet. (I usually use waxed paper, but I didn't have any that
day)

Mix
all the ingredients together in a saucepan. I let my son put everything
in the pan before I turned the heat on.
 The
stove wasn't on in this picture.
Cook it over med-high heat, stir until all the sugar is dissolved. Boil
until it reaches the hard-crack stage, which is about 300 degree on a
candy
thermometer. Remove from heat and add food coloring slowly, then add
the
flavoring. (I've found that you need to add the color first and stir
and
then add the flavoring, that will give it a little time to cool before
you
put the flavoring in, because the flavorings can burn and then your
suckers
taste burnt)

Pour slowly into the molds.
Don't worry about any bubbles, they'll go away
on their own. My son and I put sprinkles on the suckers we made, but
you
don't have to. Just sprinkle them on right after you pour the syrup
into
the molds, don't wait too long or the suckers will start to set up and
they
won't stick.

Wait
until the suckers are completely cooled and remove the molds. (be
careful some of the hard candy can have sharp edges) Wrap them
individually. We put them in little snack baggies so that they're
airtight
or the humidity ruins them. Enjoy, my kids did!
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to more seasonal cooking recipes from homemade suckers
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