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Learn how to make hard candy in your favorite flavors with this easy to follow recipe. You don't even need a candy thermometer! It's simple enough that your kids can help make it, and the finished candy makes a great gift.

42 · 15 minutes · Learn how to make hard candy in your favorite flavors with this easy to follow recipe. You don't even need a candy thermometer!

Ingredients

Condiments
  • 1/4 cup Corn syrup, Light
Baking & Spices
  • 1 Food coloring
  • 1 cup Granulated sugar
Oils & Vinegars
  • 1/2 tsp Flavoring oil
Liquids
  • 1/2 cup Water
There’s a handful of recipes I remember my mom making during the Christmas holidays. I remember some Christmas cherry cheesecake bars, snickerdoodles, peanut blossoms and this hard tack candy. I’ve always been candy crazy, so when I remembered this candy, I had to make it to share with you. This brings back many memories for me and I hope it does for you too.

67 · 25 minutes · There’s a handful of recipes I remember my mom making during the Christmas holidays. I remember some Christmas cherry cheesecake bars, snickerdoodles, peanut blossoms and this hard tack candy. I’ve always been candy crazy, so when I remembered this candy, I had to make it to share with you. This brings back many memories for me and I hope it does for you too.

Ingredients

Condiments
  • 1 cup Corn syrup
Baking & Spices
  • 1 Food coloring
  • 1 3/4 lbs Granulated sugar
  • 1/2 cup Powdered sugar
Oils & Vinegars
  • 1/8 oz Lorann flavoring oil
Liquids
  • 1 cup Water
Cinnamon Rock Candy

Cinnamon rock candy (Cinnamon Hard Candy) is one of my favorite candy flavors. It's quick to make and packs a punch of sweet and spicy flavor

Hard Rock Candy

Rock Candy is easy to make and looks great in mason jars for Christmas! It’s made with sugar, corn syrup, water, flavoring, and food coloring

Old Fashioned Suckers

23 · Old Fashioned Suckers are the simple hard candy suckers you had as a kid. They are basic. They aren't the flashy swirled lollipops. But they are delicious and will take you back to your childhood.

Ingredients

Condiments
  • 1/2 cup Corn syrup
Baking & Spices
  • 1 Food coloring
  • 2 cups Sugar
Oils & Vinegars
  • 1 Dram lorann oil flavor
Liquids
  • 1 cup Water
Old Fashioned Butterscotch Hard Candy is just like those butterscotch flavored hard candies that you used to find in your granny's candy dish. I'm sharing the full recipe and keys to success so that you can make this candy at home. | easy butterscotch candy | How to make Butterscotch Candy | Hard Candy Recipe | #HardCandy #Butterscotch #Recipes

9 · 22 minutes · Old Fashioned Butterscotch Hard Candy is just like those butterscotch flavored hard candies that you used to find in your granny’s candy dish. I’m sharing the full recipe and keys to success so that you can make this candy at home.

Ingredients

Condiments
  • 4 cups Corn syrup, light
Baking & Spices
  • 1 Food coloring, orange
  • 2 2/3 cups Sugar
Dairy
  • 1 Butter
Desserts
  • 5 tsp Butterscotch extract
How to Make Hard Candy With Just 4 Ingredients

Everybody knows kids love candy, but there's something they love even more: candy they made themselves! Here's how to make it.

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