I love mint and I already had some fun making hard candy. It was delicious, full of taste and it looked great. However, adding mint, menthol or other volatile substance into hard candy is difficult. It evaporates quickly or, worse, degrades to unpleasant smell or taste. You can sometimes use it, but the results might […]
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Flower candy
The simple candy that I made was so perfectly crystalline it practically begged to be decorated. It needed something to be trapped inside it, something that would make it even better and would shine from the inside. And what better way to do this than to capture some real flowers together with their subtle taste […]
Simple hard candy – how to make it at home
In my piece about fudge I explored one end of sugar/water mixtures used for fudge making. These mixtures are said to be at the soft ball temperature since you can freely knead the sugar mass if you cool it down. At the other spectra of useful sugar/water mixtures is so-called hard crack temperature, used for […]