VALENTINE’S HEART CANDIES
Valentine’s
Heart Candies
Green
Apple Lollipops
Prep: 20 minutes
Cook: 45 minutes
Cook: 35 minutes Makes: 18 to 20 lollipops
Ingredients
2
cups sugar
¾
cup light-colored corn syrup
1
tablespoon butter
½
teaspoon apple flavoring oil or ¼ teaspoon blackberry flavoring oil
2
drops green or 6 drops purple gel food coloring
Lollipop
sticks
Method
1.
In a medium saucepan bring 1 cup water
to boiling. Stir in sugar, syrup, and
butter. Cook and stir over medium-high
heat until mixture boils (about 7 minutes).
Clip candy thermometer to side of pan.
Reduce heat; continue boiling at a moderate, steady rate, stirring
occasionally, until thermometer registers 300°F hard-crack stage (45 to 50
minutes).
2.
Remove from heat; stir in flavoring and
gel food coloring. Let stand until
thermometer registers 220°F (about 20 minutes).
Butter two baking sheets. Place
sticks 4 inches apart on sheets. Working
quickly, spoon 1 tablespoon of candy mixture at the top 1 inch of each lollipop
stick (do not spread; mixture will flow out).
Cool completely. Wrap each lollipop
in plastic wrap. Store at room
temperature up to 2 weeks.
Valentine’s
Heart Candies were made and prepared by Shirley-Ann
Pearman
Photography
by Shirley-Ann Pearman
Recipe
was taken from Better Homes and Garden New Cook Book “14th Edition”;
the chapter on Candies; page 189. Page 200 (Green Apple Lollipops)
For
Valentine’s Heart Candies follow all instructions as noted in “Green Apple
Lollipops). However, for food coloring use red and spoon into heart shaped
pans.
This document in its entirety is located here, with more photos:-
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5WnHuJ90rZZa2FUNmJEb2dTQ0U/view?usp=sharing
THANK
YOU!
ShirleyAnn
Pearman
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