Ingredients:
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup white corn syrup
1/2 cup of water
1 teaspoon of peppermint extract
A few drops red food coloring
Directions:
Place all ingredients into a saucepan. Boil without stirring until it reaches the soft crack stage (285°F, measured with a candy thermometer). Remove from heat. Divide candy in two parts. To one part, add a little red food coloring. Pour onto a buttered surface. When cool enough, pull each separately, then twist one around the other. Cut into 6″ sections, form them into canes, and allow them to harden.
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2 comments
Karon, there are several cups of ingredients here, so that would be a very big candy cane! You have to cut the long candy cane into segments. I’ve added that step to the recipe.
The way the recipe reads, it would only make one candy cane. However, it also says “them”. How would one divide up the finished candy to make more than one?
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