Questions tagged [candy]
Questions about confections (sweet foods) and how they are made.
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Homemade salt water taffy
Are there any techniques to aerate homemade taffy, particularly saltwater taffy.
The professional saltwater taffy makers in Atlantic City, NJ and Ocean City, NJ use machines that pull the taffy over ...
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Can I make Turkish Delight with jelly powder?
I have come across some Turkish Delight recipes calling for cornstarch, others for gelatin, some use both and one that uses store-bought jelly powder (aka gelatin dessert aka Jell-O).
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Tried making gel-type candy, it recrystalized as it cooled?
I wasn't sure if it would work anyway, but I always used to love the tubes of squeeze candy you could get when I was a kid. I tried to make it by modifying a hard candy recipe. I boiled it for about ...
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How to inject carbon dioxide into hard candy, to make popping rocks?
I have a great idea for a unique candy recipe, but to achieve this I need to be able to make pop rocks. The pop rocks would be inside the candy.
Doing some research I have learned that pop rocks ...
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How do I add citric acid to my hard candy without it burning?
Every time I try a recipe and add the flavoring and citric, within seconds the citric burns and gives the candy a horrible taste. How or when should I add it so that this won't happen. I'm using a ...
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Preventing stickiness in Candy Apples
I cook the sugar to a hard crack stage 300. I have used some gel pigments after temp is reached. The candy coating is perfect for about 3 - 5 minutes and almost instantly begins to get sticky. I ...
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Can you candy salt?
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I'm working on a pretty amazing ice cream. It's Dulce de Leche, made the kind of scary traditional way of boiling cans of sweetened condensed milk, then mixing that with a custard and ...
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What is the purpose of the jelly and milk powders in this energy bar recipe?
I modified this recipe for survival bars by moving the sugar to the wet ingredients and boiling them on the stove until soft-ball stage. My goal was to reduce the moisture in the bars and add a more ...
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How do I make candy shells?
How do I make candy shells like M&Ms or Reese's Pieces have?
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How do I know if I can double, triple or quadruple a recipe for caramels?
I have a really good recipe for caramels, everyone raves about them, so I am thinking about selling them to the public. But the recipe I have only makes an 8 x 8 inch pan of caramels and they take a ...
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Can I use aluminum foil instead of parchment paper for resting candied fruit?
I’m making candied fruit and I need somewhere nonstick to place them while they cool, but I don’t have parchment paper. I don’t know how much the sugar will stick to aluminum.
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We're trying to make hard crack candy,the humidity in the house is 50%
Is there any way we can make it without it becoming sticky?
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How did my Turkish Delights/lokum end up tasting like orange?
I made lokum, or Turkish Delights yesterday. I used the more traditional ingredients - cornstach, cream of tartar, sugar. From what I've researched of the dish, you can have flavors of lokum ...
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Nougat does not set
I am trying to make nougat.
First I used the following quantities to make one batch:
2 egg whites
440g icing sugar
2 Tbsp liquid glucose
3 Tbsp honey
4 Tbsp water
I heated the sugar syrup to 145 ...
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Prevent gummi bears from drying out
I have tried making gummi bears but have the problem that they dry out very fast. I'd like to make gummi bears that could be eaten for a couple days. After five days they dried out so much it was ...
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How do I mimic trader Joe's (dark) Chocolate covered Espresso Beans?
I'm trying to mimic the thick, rich, dark chocolate covered espresso beans made by Trader Joes. These sweet morsels have a thick chocolate coating that easily gives in when bitten. The beans inside ...
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Turkish delight is way too soft and too sweet. How can I make it more firm with way less sugar?
I'm following this recipe for Turkish delight.
There are a few unwanted outcomes. First, is the instructions for preparing the cornstarch results in unwanted lumps, even when using an electric hand ...
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Can I candy pomegranate?
It seems that making candied fruit is easy: cut it thin and boil in sugar syrup until ready.
I'd like to make candied pomegranate, keeping the seed-surrounding bubbles intact. Will it work, or will ...
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How to use lemon or other fruit acid in Brigadeiro without curdling?
Here in Brazil it is customary to make Brigadeiro of varied flavors. The basic recipe is sweetened condensed milk and butter cooked until sticking to the pan.
It is known that, when the acidic fruit ...
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Does candy expire?
If so, is there any preventative measures I can take to prevent candy from expiring?
I'm curious because Halloween candy after two years tends to look a little...off, and I'm not sure if it's safe to ...
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Butter separation in english toffee candy
I've read recently some articles about English toffee candy and the issue of butter separation was mentioned there.
I am looking for further information abut this phenomenon (what causes this ...
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What is the purpose of vinegar in this lollipop recipe?
I found a recipe for lollipops. It uses 2:2:1 ratio of sugar:water:vinegar. What exactly is the role of vinegar in it?
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10 spoons of granulated/crystalic sugar
10 spoons of water
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What is the best gelling agent for gummies? [duplicate]
So, today I did my first attempt at home made gummies using 35g of gelatine with 1 cup water and 1/2 cup sugar. When it cooled though, all I had was really tough jello. Should I just add more ...
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What function would tartaric acid play in the making of gummy candy?
I just made my first successful batch of gummy candy after trying 5 or 6 diff. Recipes. The problem is that 95% of "gummy" candy recipes are basically glorified jello jigglers....not what I'm looking ...
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Two temperatures for making caramel candy
When making caramel candy the recipe often calls for boiling a water/sugar/butter mix to one temperature, then adding cream and boiling to another temperature. Often the second temperature is higher ...
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Can I cool my toffee in the fridge?
I'm making some treacle toffee for tonight but think I've left it too late to cool naturally - will cooling it In the fridge affect the result too much, or just speed the process up nicely?
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Aftertaste when making gummies
We currently make medical marijuana gummies and are experiencing an aftertaste on some batches. People describe it as chemical/metallic/dry. We have been using the same ingredients (modified potato ...
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Can flavoring extracts be added to inverted sugar?
I'd like to try doing a recipe with inverted sugar (hand pulled cotton candy), but am entirely new to candy making. I have the instructions to create inverted sugar, but would like to add a flavoring (...
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Can I turn my unset jelly into cactus fruit gummies instead?
I tried making prickly pear fruit jelly. I accidentally used regular pectin instead of low-sugar pectin. Is there a way that I can turn my unset jelly into cactus fruit gummies instead?
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How to keep caramel from hardening prematurely?
Let me be clear: I am NOT making a recipe where I want the caramel to stay soft and gooey. The end result is supposed to be hard like toffee or peanut brittle. But everything I search seems to be for ...
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What approach can be taken to create a sugar free Butterfingers clone?
How could I make a sugar free version of butterfingers candy? I’m asking because I’m a diabetic. So any advice on this matter would be appreciated big time!
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how to quickly dry out home made marshmallows?
I just made home made marshmallows for a birthday party in 7 hrs. How do I dry them out quickly? I used Ina G. recipe, she suggests to sit overnight, but on line it says to sit 8 hrs to dry. I need to ...
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What kind of chocolate should I use to coat homemade turtles?
I am making chocolate treats with mini Presley's caramel and chocolate. Can I use a regular Hershey's bar or use baking chocolate or can I mix them to make a harder coating or will the regular harden?
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How Much Ammonium Chloride for Home-made Salt Licorice?
I want to make my own Scandinavian style salt licorice. I was able to buy ammonium chloride at a local spice store, but I am not sure how much to use. My research, so far, has suggested a ...
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How do I make candy apples not sticky?
When I candy-coat apples and let them sit out, the candy coating becomes sticky. I live in the Southern U.S., so humidity is usually pretty high, but other people in my area make them as well.
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pan size and cream pull candy
I am making cream pull candy. Recipe is usually made in a 4 Qt. pan. Can I use a 8 qt. pan as long as candy thermometer is submerged enough or will the different size--e.g. more surface area ...
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Sticky candy apples [duplicate]
Last night I made candy apples for the second time. The first time they were perfect. Last night I made them at 10 pm and let them sit out over night. This morning they were hard but still sticky.
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How can I make vegetarian marshmallows?
My girlfriend is vegetarian and we have been trying to make marshmallows at home but so far after over four tries with agar agar we have yet to be very successful. We have made one batch that were ...
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What is a good technique for making candy floss (cotton candy)?
I have a candy floss machine, but I'm struggling to get the floss all together. It just flies around and makes a mess of the bowl.
It looks like this:
What is a good technique for making a stick of ...
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I need a good substitute for applesauce in a gumdrop recipe
I need applesauce for a gumdrop recipe but I am out of it. what can i use as a substitute? I have seen people saying oil, but what kind? And just the same amount as applesauce, or what?
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Tootsie Roll Flavor
Tootsie rolls dont quite taste like chocolate. They have a "cocoa" and "subtle fruit flavor" according to their website. What are the fruit flavors that makes them so unique? I've seen orange extract ...
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Sugar syrup with orange juice foams excessively
Today I made an orange chiffon cake with buttercream frosting. I used Rose Levi Beranbaum's Classical buttercream recipe, in which 100 g of sugar and 90 g of water are cooked to a softball-stage syrup ...
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Dicing Hot Tamales (candy)
I wanted to cut up some Hot Tamales candies for cookies, but had a horrible time cutting them. I couldn't get the candies small enough and they stuck together. I tried cutting with a knife and a ...
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Lace cookies TOO thin?
I tried to make https://myjerusalemkitchen.com/2011/05/22/dark-chocolate-almond-orange-lace-cookies-florentines/ (I used bee honey not date honey) and they taste GREAT, but they did not come out right....
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How do I keep my melted candy windows in my gingerbread house from cracking?
I have melted hard candy in the windows of my gingerbread house, two days later the candy is cracked. Tried it again, using more candy, but it cracked again. The gingerbread wall with the windows ...
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brittle layered nut candies
A couple years ago I was given a box of delicious Soan Papdi made by Haldiram Co. The ingredients listed are: almonds, pistachios, vegetable ghee, sugar, wheat flour, gram flour, cardamom. It had the ...
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Baking things into cupcakes!
I've seen many things on the web of people baking things into cupcakes, whether it be a pre-baked heart cake shape into a cupcake or a hershey kiss and I have some questions!
When you put a pre-baked ...
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Crystallization of sugar solution, and oddly crunchy candy with fudge-like texture after eating
I've been trying to recreate the results from:
http://cookingsciencetradition.blogspot.com/2010/12/crystallization-of-sugar.html
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Flavor difference between marzipan and persipan
I know that persipan is a cheap substitute for marzipan, using apricot or peach kernels in place of almonds. How do the flavor profiles of these two food items differ? Is marzipan really "better" in ...
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Metalic Foil on Indian Sweets
I want to make some authentic Indian sweets, but I have questions about the silver foil that is found on some of them. First of all, I can't seem to find it (in the United States); the closest I get ...
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