Hard Candy

My older sister was wanting candy diamonds for her cupcakes this Saturday. With the three day notice, it was impossible to order this late in the game... After searching for them at all the bakeries in the area and coming up dry, a search a Michaels and Party City brought the idea of making them from home... I found a recipe calling for isomalt, which is a sugar substitute and create absolute clear candy gems. Isomalt is another thing that is hard to find in late night searches... Sooo, after another search for hard candy from real sugar we found one!!! This is recipe allows you to create any almost clear gems with a gem candy mold you can get at any craft store...

This is what you will need:

2 cups sugar

2/3 cup corn syurp

3/4 cup water

a glass measuring cup (holding four cups)

a candy thermometer

foil

candy molds able to handle 275 degrees

What to do...

1. Grease everything, this will let it be easier to get it off to clean it. And place foil underneath everything... 

2. Mix the sugar, syurp and water in the pan until combined evenly and the wanted food coloring

3. Boil the sugar with constant stirring till 275 degrees

4. Immediately take the thermometer out and pour the sugar in the glass measuring cup to get it easy to pour

5. Pour asap into molds

6. let fully cool and pop them out of molds

remember not to over fill molds, this will make it shards instead of gems...