Candy Cane Recipe
Author: Merry Chrissa
Recipe type: Desserts
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- ¼ cup light corn syrup
- ¼ cup water
- ⅛ tsp. cream of tartar
- 4 drops oil of peppermint or other flavoring
- 4 drops red or green food coloring
Instructions
- Grease a hard surface. Simmer the sugar with the corn syrup, water and cream of tartar until the mix reaches a soft crack stage or about 280 degrees on a candy thermometer. Remove from the heat and add the flavoring. Divide the syrup in half. Add food coloring to one half; pour out separately onto the greased surfaces. Cool for 1 to 2 minutes. Pull each half separately; roll into ½" thick ropes. Twist colored batch around the white batch pulling until the colors adhere. Cut with scissors into 6" long lengths; bend to crook one end.
Notes
You can find Wintergreen or oil of cinnamon to use as a flavoring. Work quickly to form candy canes or you can form knots