Do not buy candy for Halloween at the supermarket, better take a step-by-step photo recipe from Alton Brown and cook them yourself. You should try these corn candies, which includes the main ingredients that are stored in pantry for any housewife, for example, icing sugar, butter и пищевой краситель. Time: one час. 10 min. Difficulty: medium Quantity: 80-100 pcs. The recipes use volumetric containers: 1 cup (tbsp.) – 240 ml. 3/4 cup (st.) – 180 ml. 1/2 cup (tbsp.) – 120 ml. 1/3 cup (st.) – 80 ml. 1/4 cup (st.) – 60 ml. 1 tablespoon (tbsp.) – 15 ml. 1teaspoon (tsp) – 5 ml.
Ingredients for the recipe:
- 130 gr powdered sugar (about 1 and 1/4 tbsp.)
- 30 gr skimmed milk powder (about 6.5 tsp)
- 1/4 tsp coarse salt
- 100 gr. granulated sugar (about 0.5 tbsp.)
- 90 gr. light corn syrup (about 1/3 tbsp.)
- 2.5 tbsp. l water
- 2 tbsp. l (30 gr.) Unsalted butter temperature
- 0.5 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 or 3 drops of orange and yellow gel-paste food dye
Recipes with similar ingredients: powdered sugar, milk powder, corn syrup, vanilla extract
Recipe preparation:
- Put powdered sugar, milk powder and salt in the kitchen harvester. Grind the mixture in a food processor with short presses 4 or 5 times to make the mixture homogeneous.
- Mix granulated sugar, corn syrup and water in 2 liter saucepan. Put it on medium heat, cover cover and cook for 4 minutes. Add butter, paste in pan the thermometer and cook the mixture to 110 ° C for about 1-2 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat and remove the thermometer.
- Add vanilla and dry mix, then mix thoroughly some time with a spatula until a homogeneous mass is obtained. Pour out mixture in a baking dish, covered with parchment or paper for baking. Cool for 10-15 minutes, or until it will not be possible to touch.
- Divide the dough into 3 equal parts. Add 2-3 drops of yellow food coloring in one piece and knead it until distribution colors. Add 2-3 drops of orange dye to the second part dough, then knead just as thoroughly. The third part should stay white.
- Twist each piece of dough into a long strip, each roughly 45 cm in length. Cut the resulting strips in half, and twist these halves are sausages with a width of 2 cm and a length of 55 cm.
- Lay out 3 sausages of different colors side by side (orange, yellow, then white) and with your fingers blind them together. Cut into pieces 10 cm in length. Then, using a ruler, squeeze the pieces into large slices so that the orange part takes up the most space, and the white framed the edge.
- Cut each slice into individual candies with a knife, preferably thin, for example, a pizza knife. Put the sweets on parchment, and let them dry for 1 hour. Keep the candy should be in an airtight container, spreading parchment between each layer.
