Free Recipe Ribbon Candy

Recipe Type: C Recipes

Recipe Preparation: boil

Cooking Ingredients for Ribbon Candy Recipe

3 c Sugar
1 c Light corn syrup
1/4 c Water
6 8 drops peppermint oil or
Cinnamon oil
1/4 ts Red paste food coloring
1/4 ts Green paste food coloring
2 Pairs white cotton work
Gloves

Ribbon Candy Preparation

Butter 3 shallow baking pans; set aside. Butter sides of 3-qt saucepan. In saucepan, combine sugar, corn syrup, & water. Cook over med.-high heat to boiling, stirring constantly with wooden spoon to dissolve sugar, about 5 min. Avoid splashing mixture on sides of pan. Carefully clip candy thermometer to side of pan. Cook over med. heat, stirring occasionally, until thermometer registers 280 , soft-crack stage, about 20 min. Remove from heat; stir in peppermint or cinnamon oil. Pour about 2/3 of the mixture into a buttered pan. Pour half of the remaining candy into a warm small saucepan. Add red coloring to this portion and pour into another buttered pan. Add green coloring to the remaining portion in the 3-qt saucepan. Pour in remaining buttered pan. Let candy cool slightly, 3-5 min. for larger, uncolored portion, 1-2 min for smaller, red & green portions. As edges cool, lift & fold edges to center with metal spatula. (If candy is too warm, it will stick to spatula.) When red & green candy can be rolled into balls with spatula, they are ready for shaping. With gloved hands, pull and twist red candy until light in color, 2-3 min. Shape into 6: rope. Place in 1 of the buttered pans & keep warm in 200 oven. Repeat with green portion. At the same time, have the 2nd person pull uncolored portion until white. Shape into 6 rope. Place white rope in center of 1 of the buttered baking sheets; place 1 colored rope on each side of white rope. Press all 3 ropes together to form a single flat log. Working quickly, have 1 person stretch 1 end of striped candy, log lengthwise, working to other end until ribbon narrows to about 1 wide. Have 2nd person immediately follow 1st person & turn ribbon onto 1 edge & fold accordion-style to make ribbon shape; break off in 6 lengths. If candy hardens too much, return to oven 3-5 min to soften. NOTES : It takes 2 people to pull & shape this candy; it hardens very quickly!

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Recipe Serves: 1

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