I want candy!

[Pokemon Kid]

Heya guys and gals. Do you make your own candy? If so, what kind?

I make gum, chocolate, chewy worms, you name it. But, they don't tase as great as store bought candies, can you give me any pointers to make the perfect gummy worm? Gummy bear or Cadbury Bar?

I also make skittles, they taste exactly the same, but they do not have the candy shell, they're just the gooey stuff.

My recipe for quick Skittles:

1 handful of sugar
1 cup of water (any size)
Any kind of natural fruit juice (for sour Skittles put a little pop rocks in them)
Stir in a bowl of boiling water for 20 minutes and let it cool on a paper plate for about an hour.
Cut into desired shapes

[ahoteinrun]

Coming from a long line of candy makers... I feel it best to warn people against doing this without the proper knowledge, or supplies.
Making candy is a finicky process, at least making good candy is, and boiling sugar is a very volatile substance should you get it anywhere on your skin. My mother who has been making candy since she was little slipped making peanut brittle a few years ago, and poured boiling hot brittle over her thumb. The candy burned down to her bone. This is NOT a joke, and it is very serious. Candy has a tendancy to stick to your skin when it burns. It is NOT a safe process.
If you don't have a candy thermometer and you aren't used to watching sugar boil, and you don't know the signs, you could easily over or under heat the recipi and it will not turn out. Time has nothing to do with how long sugar boiles. Temperature does.
Hard Crack, soft crack, hard ball, soft ball are all words you should know.
This recipi, has none of them.
Ontop of this, you should be using a very heavy pot to work with candy, my mother and I use old pressure cooking pots (the massively thick, heavy ones), to do so. To heat Candy to the proper temperature can warp many newer cheaper pans.
This recipi is for suckers, not for skittles. You're boiling a thin syrupy substance down. There are better ways for making proper candy then this. And I suggest you research the proper ways on how to make candy. Rather then playing on your own.

[Tizzy]

My little cousin and I created our own candy. It's rasberry jelly, drizzled in sugar, on a stick, and frozen! We don't know what to call them yet though.

[Pokemon Kid]

O_O

Oh my god.

Thank you.

I will go but those as soon as possible.

[Sable]

Not to mention the fact that you should never leave sugar on the stove unattended as it's possible for it to catch fire or at the very least scorch and stick to the bottom of the pot.

True story relating to this: my mom was boiling water and sugar to make a syrup to put in the hummingbird feeders and she went upstairs and forgot about it. The water boiled away and the sugar caught fire. I came in from the back yard to see a large collumn of smoke coming out of the pot. We had to leave the pot in the backyard for practically half a day before it was cool enough to handle, and we had to scrub for twice as long to get the blacked sugar mess out.

But fudge is pretty easy to make. That's the only candy related stuff I ever do. That and gum drops which is just flavorless jello with some kind of juice to flavor and extra jello to make it stiffer than normal. Not like store bought, but healthier anyway.

[ahoteinrun]

Mrm.
What most people make is not good fudge; it's quick; fudge.
My family prides itself on our fudge, and I can tell you, good fudge, is not easy to make.

It really took half a day to cool a pot? That seems like an over-exageration to me. I know when we hit temps around 400, it doesn't take our pots that long to cool. And even if it was burning hot, it doesn't take that long to cool metal. When we pour bronze at school it only takes an hour to two. And thats molten metal.

[Twinkle]

My nan makes wonderful home made toffee and fudge.

This topic has made me want to research safe recipes and start making sweets now.

[Christopher]

I made my own icecream once, twas rasberry and so rich you could only eat a tiny amount.

[happysmileyfungirl]

My gran makes really good tablet, it kind of melts in your mouth. I don't know the recipe for it but I found one at http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usrecipes/scottishtablet/index.html if you want to try and make it, not sure how good this one is though.

[Eo]

Coming from a long line of candy makers... I feel it best to warn people against doing this without the proper knowledge, or supplies.
Making candy is a finicky process, at least making good candy is, and boiling sugar is a very volatile substance should you get it anywhere on your skin. My mother who has been making candy since she was little slipped making peanut brittle a few years ago, and poured boiling hot brittle over her thumb. The candy burned down to her bone. This is NOT a joke, and it is very serious. Candy has a tendancy to stick to your skin when it burns. It is NOT a safe process.
If you don't have a candy thermometer and you aren't used to watching sugar boil, and you don't know the signs, you could easily over or under heat the recipi and it will not turn out. Time has nothing to do with how long sugar boiles. Temperature does.
Hard Crack, soft crack, hard ball, soft ball are all words you should know.
This recipi, has none of them.
Ontop of this, you should be using a very heavy pot to work with candy, my mother and I use old pressure cooking pots (the massively thick, heavy ones), to do so. To heat Candy to the proper temperature can warp many newer cheaper pans.
This recipi is for suckers, not for skittles. You're boiling a thin syrupy substance down. There are better ways for making proper candy then this. And I suggest you research the proper ways on how to make candy. Rather then playing on your own.

DERN, Ahotenrun. Down to the bone? OUCH, I understate.
I once burned myself making sugar glass. But it wasn't nearly that bad. It didn't even leave a mark.

I've got a kit for making chocolate, root beer, lollipops, rock candy, and gum. I haven't used it yet, although at a friend's house I did make gum with the same kind of kit. It's really good until you add the flavor, for some reason.

Personally, I just want to make flavoured honeys, candy's too dern dangerous.

[DiscordantNote]

I've made my own pixi stix out of a straw and some Tang. Not much, but it tastes good.

[WIS]

I've made fudge once... it tasted pretty good for a first try.

[meowth1982]

I melt chocolate for fondue, but that's about it. Mmmm fondue...

[Sock]

I make fudge. Not the best fudge, or anything, but it's good fudge, to met at least ;P

I make it with:

6 tablespoons non-hydrogenated margarine
3 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
1/2 cup sifted cocoa powder
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 cup soymilk

It's really soft, but good

[Sable]

Mrm.
What most people make is not good fudge; it's quick; fudge.
My family prides itself on our fudge, and I can tell you, good fudge, is not easy to make.

It really took half a day to cool a pot? That seems like an over-exageration to me. I know when we hit temps around 400, it doesn't take our pots that long to cool. And even if it was burning hot, it doesn't take that long to cool metal. When we pour bronze at school it only takes an hour to two. And thats molten metal.

Well, maybe it didn't take half a day. I was only nine when this happened so my little kid mind probably stretched the event out into a long ordeal.

And yeah, I make the quick fudge. I'm a cheater But it's still tasty.