Most children love sweets. The rest love them. But what is the right thing to do for mothers who do not want to deprive their child of the joy of sweets and cakes, but at the same time worry about the health of the crumbs? The way out is not so difficult: you just need to learn how to cook sweets at home. Of course, lollipops, ice cream and sweets will never become 100% healthy food, but at least you can limit the amount of synthetic food additives in your child's diet.
In this article, we will tell you how to make sugar candies at home, and we will offer several recipes for candy canes that can be a worthy replacement for lollipops and other “miracles” of the chemical industry.
Basic lollipop recipe at home
This recipe is the easiest way to make lollipops. In the future, you can modify it by adding ingredients to your liking (fruit juice, dyes, coffee, citrus zest, etc.), but the base of the lozenges is always the same. The basic recipe is the recipe for the famous cockerel lollipops, there is nothing superfluous in it. True, market "cockerels" are often dyed in bright colors using food coloring.
Ingredients:
- granulated sugar - 10 tablespoons;
- water - 10 tablespoons;
- vinegar - 1 tbsp. (preferably natural - apple or wine). It can be replaced with citric acid - 0.2 tsp;
- vegetable oil (to grease the mold).
Cooking
Water, vinegar and sugar are mixed in a refractory container (preferably in an enamel pan) and warmed up well. When the mixture is hot and the sugar begins to dissolve, reduce the heat and, stirring constantly, cook the syrup until golden brown. Cooking time depends on the amount of mixture in the pan - the larger the portion, the more time it will take to cook. From time to time, drip the syrup into a cup of cold water. As soon as the drop begins to harden - the lollipops are ready, you can pour them into a pre-oiled form. Do not forget to insert the prepared sticks so that the lollipops are on the "legs". Sticks can be bought ready-made, or you can use matches, bamboo skewers or toothpicks (of course, sharp edges should be cut off). Cool the lollipops to room temperature, open the mold and enjoy.
How to make colorful lollipops?
To make unusual multi-colored candies, you will need to slightly change the basic caramel recipe.
Ingredients:
- granulated sugar - 8 tablespoons;
- berry or fruit juice without pulp - 3 tablespoons;
- lemon juice - 1 tsp;
- sugar sprinkling (optional)
Cooking
Mix all the ingredients and heat in a refractory non-stick dish, stirring constantly, until the sugar is completely dissolved and golden caramel is formed. If you've added brightly colored juice, relying on the color of the caramel isn't very reliable - test doneness by dropping the caramel into cold water. As soon as the drop begins to solidify, and not dissolve, the lollipops are ready (this is called the “ball test”). Add topping to the finished caramel and pour into molds. Due to the fact that the sugar and juice from the syrup have turned into caramel, the topping will not dissolve.
If you have food coloring, you can add them, then you will be able to make green, blue, bright red candies. But keep in mind that the powder dye must be thoroughly mixed with water before heating so that the candies are evenly colored.
Flavoring for lollipops can be citrus peel, coffee, rose or orange water, or synthetic food flavorings.
How to make a mold for lollipops?
A real, old lollipop mold is not so easy to find today. If you are the lucky owner of just such a heavy metal mold, congratulations. If not, don’t be discouraged, finding an alternative to the classic form is not so difficult. Of course, you won’t be able to get three-dimensional figures of animals, but who said that lollipops should be just like that? 
If you pour the caramel mass onto a flat baking sheet in neat puddles and put a stick in each of them, you will get beautiful candy circles. By pouring caramel "puddles" into a figured silicone mold, you will get fancy sweets of the original shape. Very often, chocolate boxes (with molds) are used as a form. Some people make hard candies by filling cookie cutters lined with caramel on a baking sheet. As you can see, there are a lot of options. The main thing is not to forget to grease the mold with oil so that the lollipops do not stick, and make sure that the material of the mold is able to withstand the temperature of hot caramel without melting.
The biggest sweet tooth in the world is our favorite kids. , ice cream - they all adore. However, not always and not everyone can be given purchased products. Many sweets from the proposed assortment are not safe for the child's body, and kids with allergies should not be fed with such delicacies.
Another thing is if you yourself prepare delicious lollipops at home. The very ones ... from your childhood that your mother prepared.
I am sure that your kids will like these same cockerels, Santa Claus and Snow Maiden. In addition, the cooking process is also fascinating - after all, this is real magic, how real sweets are obtained from simple sugar and water. And they are in no way inferior to modern lollipops.
To make homemade lollipops, we need the following ingredients:
- Sugar 10 tablespoons
- Water 5 tbsp.
- Vinegar 2 tbsp
- Butter for greasing the mold
- Candy mold (special or silicone for baking)
- Candy sticks
Recipe for homemade sugar lollipops:
Pour sugar into a bucket, pour water and add vinegar. Vinegar plays a very important role in sweets, it does not allow sugar to crystallize. If you do not add it, then the sweets will turn out cloudy. 
Bring contents to a boil and reduce heat. 
Cook until thickened and color changes. The sweet mass will acquire a reddish tint. 
We prepare the form in advance by greasing it with butter.
Pour the finished mixture into the holes in the mold and insert the sticks, I have bamboo skewers, cut into two equal parts. 
If you don’t have a special form in your kitchen arsenal, it doesn’t matter. There is a way out of this situation - just take parchment paper, also grease it with butter and pour the syrup directly onto it. We sink a stick in it and wait until it freezes. Alternatively, pour the sugar mixture into small silicone molds for baking or ice.
Only after the sweets have completely cooled down, open the mold and take out our homemade candies from it.
Sugar lollipops can be handed out to children, let them enjoy the sweet taste.
Homemade sugar lollipops will be a great natural alternative to store-bought Chupa Chups, free of harmful impurities and additives. Adults will be able to remember the long-forgotten taste of childhood, and children can enjoy sweets without harm to health.
How to make sugar candy?
Making lollipops at home will not be difficult even for a novice cook, and the whole process, with the right components, will take only a few minutes.
- The necessary ingredients for creating sweets: sugar, water, juice, compote or other liquid base. Vinegar or citric acid is added to the caramel to avoid sugaring. Optionally, the mixture is tinted or filled with flavor by adding dyes and flavors.
- Syrup is boiled from the components, which is subsequently poured into molds, onto a silicone mat or oiled parchment.
- If desired, home-made sugar candies are supplemented with wooden skewers.
Burnt sugar lollipops
The following recipe will help you learn how to make candy from burnt sugar. The difference of this method from the classical technology is in the minimum amount of liquid used. Sugar should only be slightly moistened. If there are no molds, the syrup can be poured into oiled tablespoons or teaspoons.
Ingredients:
- sugar - 1 cup;
- water - 1.5-2 tbsp. spoons;
- vegetable oil.
Cooking
- Pour sugar into a saucepan with a thick bottom, add water and place the container on the stove.
- The contents are heated until all the crystals are dissolved and boiled, stirring continuously, until a rich caramel color is acquired.
- Pour syrup into greased moulds.
- After 20-30 minutes, burnt sugar candies at home will be ready for tasting.
How to make lollipops?
You can make lollipops with your own hands without any additives or fill the delicacy with color and taste, flavoring the base with flavoring, replacing water with juice. Sticks can be toothpicks, kebab skewers, sulfur-free matches, or special plastic reeds designed to make such a sweet.
Ingredients:
- sugar - 250 g;
- water - 100 g;
- citric acid - 0.5 tsp;
- dye and flavor - to taste;
- vegetable oil.
Cooking
- Combine sugar and water in a saucepan, heat with stirring until the crystals dissolve.
- Continue heating the base to a temperature of 130 degrees or to a test for a soft ball.
- Flavoring and dye are added as desired, cooked to a temperature of 160 degrees or instant caramelization of a drop of syrup in water.
- Stir in citric acid, stirring it with half a teaspoon of boiling water.
- Pour the mixture into molds or onto a silicone mat.
- Insert the skewers, rotate them 360 degrees in the caramel, and leave the lollipops to set.
Lollipops at home without molds
Even if there were no special molds available, you can make sugar candies at home using other kitchen utensils. Instead of molds, you can take teaspoons, tablespoons smeared with oil, or use a silicone mat, dripping portions of caramel onto it and waiting for them to quickly solidify.
Ingredients:
- sugar - 200 g;
- water - 7 tbsp. spoons;
- lemon juice - 1 teaspoon;
- vegetable oil.
Cooking
- Water with sugar is heated with stirring until the crystals dissolve and acquire a rich caramel color.
- They check the readiness of caramel by a drop hardening in water, after which they pour it into oiled spoons or drip onto a silicone mat.
- If desired, add round lollipops or other shapes with skewers and let them harden.
colored lollipops
Read on to learn how to make sugar at home. Portions of caramel, prepared in separate containers, are tinted with gel dyes. Much more priority is the natural coloring of the syrup at the initial stage of cooking by adding fruit, berry or vegetable juices.
Ingredients:
- sugar - 500 g;
- water - 200 ml;
- vinegar - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- dyes of different colors;
- vegetable oil.
Cooking
- Alternately boil portions of sugar and water until caramel color.
- Dye and vinegar are added, boiled a little more, and after a test on a hard drop, the base is poured into oiled molds.
- Supplement multi-colored lollipops with sticks and let the delicacy harden.
ginger lozenges
Home-made sugar lollipops according to the following recipe will not only allow you to enjoy their excellent exquisite taste and aroma, but will also help alleviate the course of a cold accompanied by a sore throat or cough. In addition, the valuable composition of sweets will strengthen the immune system.
Ingredients:
- sugar - 1 cup;
- water - 0.5 cups;
- lemon juice - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- honey - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- ground ginger - ½ teaspoon;
- ground cloves - ¼ teaspoon;
- vegetable oil, powdered sugar.
Cooking
- Combine water and sugar in a saucepan.
- Add honey, lemon juice, ginger and cloves.
- The mixture is heated with stirring to a boil and boiled to the color of strong tea or a positive test for a hard ball in cold water.
- With a teaspoon, pour portions of spiced caramel onto oiled parchment.
- After hardening, sprinkle with powdered sugar.
striped lollipop
If you want to make spectacular-looking striped sugar candies, you will need to cook caramel of different colors at the same time. In this case, it will be necessary to pour two or three types of bases of different colors into forms in turn, resulting in the desired striped delicacy. If the caramel began to harden in a bowl ahead of time, it is heated again until it liquefies.
Ingredients:
- sugar - 500 g;
- water - 200 ml;
- vinegar - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- dyes of two colors;
- vegetable oil.
Cooking
- The components are divided into two portions and boiled in different vessels until the desired thickening and a positive test for a solid drop.
- Dyes are added, the mixture is heated a little more and poured alternately into oiled molds.
small lollipops
To cook, which are called "Monpasier", no molds or skewers are needed. Drops of caramel are applied to oiled parchment or a silicone mat, and after hardening, sprinkle with powdered sugar. Sweetness is optionally flavored with essence and filled with color by adding dyes.
Ingredients:
- sugar - 150 g;
- water - 50 ml;
- vinegar - 1 teaspoon;
- flavorings and dyes (optional) - to taste;
- vegetable oil.
Cooking
- Water with sugar is heated, stirring, until the crystals dissolve and thicken.
- Dyes and flavors are added as desired, the drops are boiled until caramelized in cold water.
- Vinegar is poured in, stirred and spread with a spoon drops of caramel on parchment or silicone mat.
cockerel lollipop
At one time, they were prepared without any additives in the form of flavorings and dyes, and without that they turned out to be tasty and appetizing. If among the kitchen utensils there is a special mold in the form of a bird or other animals, it will not be difficult to make such a sweet, and the necessary products are always at hand.
Ingredients:
- sugar - 100 g;
- water - 2.5 tbsp. spoons;
- vinegar - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- vegetable oil.
Cooking
- Water is mixed with sugar, heated with stirring until the crystals dissolve and acquire a caramel color.
- Check the readiness of caramel for a solid drop, add vinegar.
- The mass is poured into oiled molds, sticks are inserted, and allowed to harden.
New Year's candies "Canes"
To complete the following sugar candy recipe, you will need a cooking thermometer, a silicone mat, or ideally a mold. In addition, you will need to take care of the presence of molasses, red gel dye or any other color. At first, the technology may seem complicated, but in fact it is easy to execute.
Even while visiting, on a summer vacation or in the country, you can cook a wonderful treat for children - homemade lollipops on a stick (they are also "cockerels"). Remember how happy you were as a child when you were preparing or buying this delicacy? And we, too, can please our children. Moreover, the recipe is very simple - see for yourself.
Ingredients:
- for 300 gr. Sahara
- 8 art. l. water
- 1 st. l. vinegar 9%
- sunflower oil(for greasing molds)
You will also need forms for making lollipops (if they are not available, you can use ordinary spoons - table, dessert or tea - if desired) and sticks.
Cooking:
- Wash the forms in advance, dry them, carefully grease the recesses with sunflower oil. If you make lollipops in spoons, they also need to be greased with sunflower oil from the inside and put on a plate greased with vegetable oil.
- Preparing sticks. I cut wooden kebab skewers in half, you can use wooden ice cream sticks.
- We connect the greased halves of the forms, fasten them with clamps. Put holes up.
- Pour sugar into a bowl in which we will cook candy ("cockerels"). Small pots with high sides work best. For example, here is a bucket. If the ladle has a spout, it will be even more convenient to pour the hot mixture into molds.
- Pour in water so that all the sugar gets wet, add vinegar and mix.
- We put on a small fire. When the sugar melts, increase the heat - it should be a little less than average: not too big so that the caramel does not burn, but not too small, otherwise it will cook for too long. Bring the syrup to a boil and cook, stirring, for 20-25 minutes. The syrup should boil.
- As soon as the syrup starts to brown, turn it off.
- If the syrup for lollipops is cooked well, then it is transparent, caramel-amber in color.
- We mix the turned off syrup and immediately quickly pour it into prepared molds for lollipops, as it starts to harden very quickly. If the syrup is cooked correctly, then when pouring into molds, a glassy thread stretches behind the ladle. Insert the sticks into the mold.
- In the same way, pour the syrup into the prepared spoons. Sticks can be inserted if desired.
- Let the ice cubes harden. I left until the molds were completely cool.
- It is important to cook the syrup correctly and turn it off just when it starts to brown. If you turn it off earlier, the syrup will already be quite thick, but a light yellow transparent color. Lollipops from undercooked syrup turn out to be more sticky, which makes it difficult to open the mold, stick to the teeth, keep their shape worse (“melt”), and deform. And the taste of such lollipops is different, without a caramel shade (the taste of cotton candy). Overcooked syrup may have a bitter taste. True, they say that such caramel is a good cough remedy.
- If the syrup was well cooked, the molds open and the figures are easily removed from there.
- After the preparation of the lollipops, a ladle and a spoon remain in the frozen caramel. How to wash it? Everything is very simple. I put a spoon in a ladle and poured boiling water over it all, put it on a small fire and boiled for a minute or two until all the caramel had dissolved. And then I also prepared tea with the resulting syrup (add to tea to taste). My daughter really liked this tea. She said it tasted like cotton candy. And lollipops are better than any lollipops :)
Enjoy your meal!
Grandma's lollipops are a good alternative to store-bought lollipops. Homemade lollipops are prepared on the basis of sugar syrup using natural dyes, which significantly reduces the amount of harmful synthetic additives in the diet of little sweet teeth.
The basic recipe for making lollipops at home
The basic recipe for making homemade lollipops can be modified in the future by adding ingredients (fruit juices, zest, cocoa, food coloring), and cook different flavors of this delicacy.
To make lollipops at home, you will need:
10 tablespoons of granulated sugar; - 10 tablespoons of water; - 1 tablespoon of vinegar or 1/5 teaspoon of citric acid; - vegetable oil.
For the preparation of lollipops, it is better to use natural apple or wine vinegar.
First of all, mix water, granulated sugar and vinegar in a fireproof bowl. An enamel pan is suitable for this. Place over medium heat and heat well. When the sugar begins to dissolve, reduce the heat and, stirring constantly, boil the sugar syrup until a pleasant golden color is obtained. Cooking time directly depends on the amount of liquid in the pan: the larger the portion, the longer the cooking time for caramel.
Periodically check readiness - drip the prepared syrup into a cup or glass of cold water. As soon as the drops begin to harden, remove the pan from the heat - the lollipops are ready.
If you don't have a rooster mold, you can make lollipops in ice cube molds, silicone molds, or cookie cutters lined on a baking sheet. It is important that the mold material can withstand the temperature of the hot caramel.
How to make a lollipop? Recipe
Lubricate special molds for cooking cockerels with vegetable oil and fill them with cooked caramel. To make cockerels on legs, insert pre-prepared sticks. You can buy them, or you can use ordinary matches, wooden toothpicks or bamboo skewers for candy sticks. Don't forget to cut off the sharp ends.
Cool the lollipops to room temperature and remove from the mould. Delicious homemade treat is ready to eat.
How to make colorful lollipops
To prepare unusual candies of different colors, you should slightly change the basic caramel recipe and take the following ingredients:
8 tablespoons of granulated sugar; - 3 tablespoons of berry or fruit juice without pulp; - 1 teaspoon of lemon juice.
Mix all the ingredients: granulated sugar, fruit juice and lemon. Heat them in a non-stick pan until the sugar is completely dissolved, stirring constantly. Determine the readiness of caramel by dropping the syrup into a cup of cold water. When the drop stops dissolving and begins to solidify, remove the cockerel caramel from the heat.
If the candies are prepared using food coloring, then mix the powdered coloring matter thoroughly in water before heating, otherwise the candy will be colored unevenly.
As flavorings for lollipops, you can use citrus zest, coffee, cocoa, orange and rose water.
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