So today I attempted to use the mold to make Lego suckers (are they still suckers without sticks? These are like Jolly Ranchers). But it didn’t go as smoothly as the gummie’s did.
Lego suckers
Ingredients
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/3 light corn syrup
- 1/2-1 1/2 teaspoons candy flavoring
- Food coloring
Instructions
- Mix the sugar, water and corn syrup together in a saucepan.
- Cook it over med-high heat, stir until all the sugar is dissolved.
- Boil until it reaches the hard-crack stage, which is about 300 degree on a candy thermometer.
- Remove from heat and add food coloring slowly, then add the flavoring.
- Pour quickly but smoothly into the molds.
- Don't worry about any bubbles, they'll go away on their own.
I thought the gummie’s thickened quickly. These suckers started going hard so fast I couldn’t even spread it around very well. I couldn’t get the base plate to stick into it (too hard by the time I tried, so they can’t stack. Oh well, live and learn). It was fun to try and fairly simple, now that I know what NOT to do, I think we’ll end up trying it again soon!
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Hi,
So I tried doing a search on lolli-pop flavors and came up with way too many options. I was wondering if you could tell me where you got your flavor/ what type you used. Thanks!
Tracy
honestly I don’t remember, any candy flavoring will work, just find a favorite flavor and order it!
So these went hard really quickly? And how hard do they go? Thanks! 🙂
um? they are suckers! they end up like shaped jolly ranchers.
Sorry, we don’t use the term ‘sucker’ in NZ or have Jolly Ranchers! But I googled it so no worries – thanks though 🙂
GOTCHA! I was a bit worried you were a spammer trying to get me to say words like hard and sucker inappropriately 😉 I’m so glad your a real person! we call lollipops suckers, so this is a lollipop recipe, that I used in a mold instead of on a stick, so completely hard, you just suck on them (don’t try to chomp, they can break teeth!