Hard Rock Candy Sticks

Grown ups will remember and kids will love our old fashioned hard candy sticks.

Hard rock candy sticks.

Butter the foil and set aside. For your candy buffet nothing makes an impression like rock candy sticks planted in bowls of bright jelly beans and mounds of sixlets or built into an exotic centerpiece. When you make rock candy you can see the shape of sugar crystals on a giant scale. Making rock candy is food science at its finest.

It is a great activity to do with the kids. They re easy to work with and make removing the candy a little easier if it gets stuck to the bottom crystals. These odd looking rock crystals are as close as it comes to truly natural candy since rock candy sticks are formed when a colored sugar and water solution crystallizes. In this instructable i will show you how to make rock candy.

A wooden skewer or popsicle stick are both good options for rock candy. One last thing for fun pour the mixture into hard candy molds for shapes or into two inch circles and stick in sucker sticks to make lollipops. For the real adventurist try gummi worms as it cools. 12 gold rock candy sticks extra large original flavor individually wrapped rock candy on a stick free how to build a candy buffet guide included 4 8 out of 5 stars 15 13 45 13.

All you need is a few simple in. The key is giving them lots of time about 7 days to grow. This nostalgic candy is available in a wide variety of delicious flavors from classics such as cherry watermelon and blueberry to less common and adventurous flavors including horehound clove and rum butter. Old fashioned hard candy sticks.

Rock often known by its place of origin for instance blackpool rock or brighton rock is a type of hard stick shaped boiled sugar confectionery most usually flavoured with peppermint or spearmint. You can also use a cotton string you ll need to tie it to a weight of some kind so it doesn t float in the syrup. As the water evaporates sugar crystals form on the string or stick and the shapes that they form reflect the shape of individual sugar crystals.