Homemade Hard Candy Lollipops
A tasty lollipop recipe for kids and grown-ups alike — a little throwback to childhood. Hard candy lollipops on a stick were a favorite treat for generations of kids: the fun shapes, bright colors, and that classic taste stuck with us for years. If you want to treat your family to that same old-fashioned dessert today, here's the recipe to bring it all back.
Cooking method
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Step 1:
This amount makes one batch, sized for a lollipop mold like mine. As a rule of thumb, you need about four times as much sugar as water. The citric acid is optional, but it adds a faint tang.
So, pour the water over the sugar and add the citric acid.
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Step 2:
Set it over low heat and cook, stirring, until it turns a caramel color.
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Step 3:
Lightly grease the mold with vegetable oil and pour in the syrup. After a couple of seconds, insert the sticks into the soon-to-be lollipops and leave them to cool, which takes about half an hour.
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Step 4:
Open the mold and pop the lollipops out.
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Step 5:
As you can see, making lollipops at home is easy. And if you don't have a mold, no problem — you can make them on a plate: just pour the syrup onto a plate greased with vegetable oil, then (once it's cooled) break it into pieces with a knife.
By the way, slightly over-browned homemade hard candy is great for soothing a cough.
- These candies can be molded into all kinds of shapes — a fish, a bunny, a squirrel, and so on. If you've got an old-fashioned metal candy mold, great: it'll let you make 6 lollipops at once. If not, pick up molds at the store, or use silicone cookie or chocolate molds, plastic chocolate-box trays, or ice cube trays.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Granulated sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Vegetable oil - 873 kcal/100g
- Citric acid - 0 kcal/100g
- Water - 0 kcal/100g
