Homemade Lollipop Recipe
Valentine’s Day is approaching, shall we prepare handmade heart shaped candies?
Ingredients for Homemade Lollipops Recipe
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 2/3 water glass corn syrup (glucose)
- 1 cup of water
- 1/2 tablespoon cream tartar (sugar matting and crystallization
- 2 tablespoons of strawberry flavoring
- 2 drops of red food coloring
- 30 pcs plastic sticks (toothpicks)
Tips for Homemade Lollipops Recipe
Instead of a greased baking tray, you can prepare lollipops on silicone silpaths, and prepare lollipops in different shapes with the cookie or chocolate molds you desire. Leave the boiling sugar mixture in a container filled with cold water for a short time and then prepare the lollipops. The mixture should not be too cold or too hot. You can also prepare lollipops without using cream of tartar (cream of tartar), but the colors are not transparent. You can wrap and store the remaining lollipops so that the shiny part of the greaseproof paper remains inside.
How to Make Homemade Lollipops Recipe?
To prepare homemade lollipops; Put granulated sugar, corn syrup, water and cream of tartar into the pot.
Let the mixture boil over high heat with a wooden spoon until the powdered sugar dissolves.
Add red food coloring and continue boiling for 10-15 minutes.
To understand that the boiling syrup has reached the right consistency for sugar preparation; drop a drop in cold water and check its firmness.
After you take the pot of syrup from the stove, place it in a tray filled with cold water.
Add the strawberry flavor and mix it with a wooden spoon, then let it sit for a while in a bowl of cold water so that the first heat comes out.
Lubricate silicone silpar or baking trays with spray oil. If you want to prepare round lollipops; Take a tablespoon of the syrup mixture and pour it over the silpat.
If you want to prepare heart shaped candies; Place the heart molds on oiled silpates, pour the syrup mixture in the thickness you want.
Place toothpicks at the ends of the round or heart shaped lollipops you have prepared.
Cool the lollipops that you expect to cool at room temperature by turning them inside out. After waiting for about 15 minutes, share it with your loved ones.
