Cooked sugar candies at home will be a great natural alternative to the purchased Chupa-Chups, which does not contain harmful impurities and additives. Adults will be able to recall the long forgotten taste of childhood, and children will regale their sweetness without harm to health.
How to make lollipops from sugar?
Making lollipops at home is not difficult even for a novice cook, and the whole process with the right ingredients will take just a few minutes.
- Necessary ingredients for making sweets: sugar, water, juice, compote or other liquid base. To avoid sugars, vinegar or citric acid is added to the caramel. If desired, the mixture is tinted or filled with flavor by adding dyes and flavorings.
- Of the constituents, a syrup is cooked, which is then poured into molds, onto a silicone mat or oiled parchment.
- If desired, homemade sugar candies are supplemented with wooden skewers.
Lozenges from the burnt sugar
The following recipe will help you learn how to make lollipops from burnt sugar. The difference between this method and the classical technology is in the minimum amount of liquid used. Sugar must only be slightly moistened. If there are no forms, the syrup can be poured over oily table or teaspoonfuls.
Ingredients:
- sugar - 1 cup;
- water - 1,5-2 tbsp. spoons;
- vegetable oil.
Preparation
- In a sauté pan with a thick bottom, sugar is poured, water is added and a container is placed on the stove.
- Heat the contents to dissolve all the crystals and boil, stirring continuously, until a rich caramel color is obtained.
- Pour out the syrup over oiled molds.
- In 20-30 minutes sugar candy candies at home will be ready for tasting.
How to make lollipops?
You can make lollipops with your own hands without any additives or fill the delicacy with color and taste, having flavored the base with the flavoring agent, replacing the water with juice. Chopsticks can be toothpicks, skewers for shish kebab, matches without sulfur or special plastic canes, created for the preparation of such sweets.
Ingredients:
- sugar - 250 g;
- water - 100 g;
- citric acid - 0.5 tsp;
- dye and flavor - to taste;
- vegetable oil.
Preparation
- Combine sugar and water in a saucepan, heat with stirring until the crystals dissolve.
- Continue heating the substrate to a temperature of 130 degrees or until a sample on a soft ball.
- Add flavor and color if desired, prepare to a temperature of 160 degrees or instant caramelization of a drop of syrup in water.
- Stir the citric acid, stirring it with half a teaspoon of boiling water.
- Pour the mixture over the molds or onto the silicone mat.
- Insert the skewers, rotate them in caramel 360 degrees, and leave the candy on the stick until it freezes.
Lollipops in the home without molds
Even if you did not have special molds, you can make lollipops from sugar at home using other kitchen utensils. Instead of molds, you can take buttered teaspoons, tablespoons or use a silicone rug, dropping portions of caramel and waiting for them to harden.
Ingredients:
- sugar - 200 g;
- water - 7 tbsp. spoons;
- lemon juice - 1 teaspoon;
- vegetable oil.
Preparation
- Water with sugar is heated with stirring until the crystals dissolve and a caramel-rich color is obtained.
- Check the caramel's readiness for a water-hardening drop, then pour it over oiled spoons or drip onto a silicone mat.
- If desired, round lozenges or other forms of skewers are added and allow them to freeze.
Colored lollipops
Further on how to make lollipops colored from sugar at home. Portions of caramel, cooked in separate containers, tinted with gel dyes. Much more priority is the natural coloring of the syrup at the initial stage of cooking by adding fruit, berry or vegetable juices.
Ingredients:
- sugar - 500 g;
- water - 200 ml;
- vinegar - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- dyes of different colors;
- vegetable oil.
Preparation
- Serve portions of sugar and water to a caramel color.
- Add the dye and vinegar, boil a little more and after the sample on a solid drop the base is poured over the oiled forms.
- Complement the colorful candy sticks and give the delicacy to freeze.
Ginger candies
Prepared sugar candies at home at the following recipe will not only allow you to enjoy their excellent, exquisite taste and aroma, but also help ease the catarrhal disease accompanied by sore throat or cough. In addition, a valuable composition of candy will strengthen immunity.
Ingredients:
- sugar - 1 cup;
- water - 0.5 cup;
- lemon juice - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- honey - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- ground ginger - ½ tsp;
- ground cloves - ¼ tsp;
- vegetable oil, powdered sugar.
Preparation
- Combine the saucepan with water and sugar.
- Add honey, lemon juice, ginger and cloves.
- Warm the mixture with stirring until boiling and boil until the color of strong tea or a positive sample on a solid ball in cold water.
- A teaspoon of spicy caramel is poured onto oiled parchment.
- After hardening sprinkle candy with ginger powdered sugar.
Striped Lollipop
If you want to make spectacular striped sugar candies, you will need to boil different types of caramels at the same time. To pour out two or three kinds of a basis of different colors on forms it will be necessary in this case alternately, receiving as a result desirable striped delicacy. If caramel began to harden in the bowl ahead of time, it is heated again until liquefaction.
Ingredients:
- sugar - 500 g;
- water - 200 ml;
- vinegar - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- dyes of two colors;
- vegetable oil.
Preparation
- Separate the components into two portions and in different vessels boil until the desired thickening and a positive sample on a solid drop.
- Add the dyes, heat the mixture a little more and pour in alternately oiled forms.
Small Lollipops
To make small lollipops , which are called "Montpache", you do not need shapes or skewers. Drops of caramel are applied to oiled parchment or silicone mat, and after hardening they sprinkle powdered sugar. Sweet, if desired, is flavored with essence and filled with color, adding dyes.
Ingredients:
- sugar - 150 g;
- water 50 ml;
- vinegar - 1 teaspoon;
- Flavors and dyes (optional) - to taste;
- vegetable oil.
Preparation
- Water with sugar is heated, stirring, until crystals dissolve and thickened.
- Add the optional dyes and flavors, boil until caramelized drops in cold water.
- Pour in the vinegar, stir and spread a spoon of a drop of caramel on the parchment or silicone mat.
Candy Cockroach
Home candy-cockerels at one time were prepared without any additives in the form of flavors and dyes and already turned out delicious and mouth-watering. If among the kitchen utensils there is a special form in the form of a bird or other animals, it is not difficult to make such a sweetness, and the necessary products are always at hand.
Ingredients:
- sugar - 100 g;
- water - 2.5 tbsp. spoons;
- vinegar - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- vegetable oil.
Preparation
- Mix the water with sugar, heat with stirring until the crystals dissolve and the caramel color is obtained.
- Check the preparedness of caramel for a hard drop, add the vinegar.
- Dilute the mass of oiled forms, insert sticks, allow to freeze.
New Year's candies "Canes"
To fulfill the following sugar candy recipe, you will need a culinary thermometer, a silicone rug or, ideally, a form. In addition, it will be necessary to take care of the presence of treacle, gel red dye or any other color. At first, the technology may seem complicated, but in fact it is easy to execute.
Ingredients:
- sugar and molasses - 100 g;
- water - 30 ml;
- citric acid - ¼ tsp;
- dye and flavor.
Preparation
- Mix treacle, sugar and water, cook, stirring, after boiling for about 7 minutes or to a temperature of 124 degrees.
- Separate the syrup into 2 portions, into one of them add the dye.
- In different silicone forms or on rugs with folded edges, stir the caramel at first with a spatula, and after the mass becomes viscous, alternately fold it and stretch it until you acquire a pearl tone.
- Twist the white and colored sausage from the caramel with each other by a tourniquet, stretch, cut off portions and give them the shape of canes.