Make this festive season sweeter with homemade treats
Get creative with your Christmas gifts with this cool hard candy recipe.
You are still stumped on gift ideas and you don’t want to buy something impersonal and not so special.
Try your hand at this yummy and easy sweet recipe by sparkpeople.com
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup light corn syrup
1/4 tsp. extract or flavoring oil
Food coloring (optional)
Powdered sugar
Mold for hard candy
Mix sugar and corn syrup in a microwave-safe glass (or other container). Cover glass with plastic wrap and microwave for 1 minute. Remove plastic wrap carefully to avoid steam. Stir and cover with a new piece of plastic wrap. Microwave 1 minute. Remove plastic wrap. Add flavouring, colouring, and stir. Pour into hard candy mold and let cool completely (nutritional info is based on a 90 piece candy mold, yours may differ). Break apart and lightly coat with powdered sugar to keep pieces from sticking.
Once your sweets are ready you can store it in beautiful decorated jars such as:
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