Hard Rock Candy Sticks

Making rock candy is food science at its finest.

Hard rock candy sticks.

A wooden skewer or popsicle stick are both good options for rock candy. 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. 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. 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.

In this instructable i will show you how to make rock candy. It is commonly sold at tourist usually seaside resorts in the united kingdom such as brighton southend on sea scarborough llandudno or blackpool and ireland e g. They re easy to work with and make removing the candy a little easier if it gets stuck to the bottom crystals. Grown ups will remember and kids will love our old fashioned hard candy sticks.

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. 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. 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.

It is a great activity to do with the kids. 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. 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. This homemade rock candy recipe is easy to make and really fun.

When you make rock candy you can see the shape of sugar crystals on a giant scale. Old fashioned hard candy sticks. The key is giving them lots of time about 7 days to grow.