Hard Candy Recipes

Ingredients:

3¾  cups sugar
1½ cups light corn syrup
1 cup water
flavoring (optional)
coloring  (optional)
pinch of citric acid  (optional to enhance flavor)

Mix first three ingredients in a large saucepan.  Stir over medium heat until sugar dissolves.  Boil, without stirring, until temperature reaches 300° F. or until drops of syrup form hard brittle threads in cold water.  Remove from heat.  After boiling has completely stopped, stir in flavor and color and citric acid if used.  Pour onto lightly greased cookie sheet or pour into hard candy molds.  Cool.  Remove from molds or break large pieces apart.

If you use lollipop sticks, just make sure the dough covers the sticks so they don't come out when you pop them out of the molds.

CHOCOLATE JEMS

½ cup butter
1½ oz unsweetened chocolate
1 cup brown sugar
1 egg
½  tsp vanilla
1¾ cup flour
½ tsp baking soda
¼ tsp salt

Add melted chocolate to butter, sugar, egg, vanilla and cream mixture.  Mix dry ingredients together.  Stir into creamed mixture.  Press into an ungreased Hard Candy mold.  Place on aluminum cookie sheet.  Bake at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes.

WALNUT CONFECTIONS

½ cup butter
½ cup confectioners sugar
2 egg yolks
1 cup flour
½ cup finely chopped walnuts

Cream butter, sugar and egg yolks.  Stir in flour and walnuts.  Press into Hard Candy mold.  Bake at 325 degrees for 10 minutes. 

HONEY LEMON COOKIES

1/3 cup butter
1/3 cup sugar
1 egg
2/3 cup honey
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
2¾ cup flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt

Cream butter, sugar, egg, honey and lemon juice.  Stir in dry ingredients.  Spray Hard Candy molds lightly with non-stick spray.  Press in dough in hard candy mold.  Bake at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes.