Hard Candy

• cup Karo syrup↗1
• cups sugar↗2
• cup water↗1⁄2
• teaspoon of flavoring candy oil (more or less to your taste)↗1
• food coloring (to desired color)↗
• confectioners' sugar↗
• butter↗

Step-by-step instructions

1. 1

   Mix syrup, sugar and water.

2. 2

   Bring to hard/crack boil on candy thermometer.

3. 3

   Stir in Candy oil and food coloring. (watch about the steam coming off of the mixture, it can really get you).

4. 4

   Butter the heat resistant surface you will be working on. (She had a marble candy board, I use a cookie sheet).

5. 5

   When cool enough to touch with hands (but not too cool or it will be too late), butter you hands and kitchen scissors and begin cutting pieces with scissors.

6. 6

   Put pieces in a bowl of confection sugar (coats each piece from sticking to one another) and when you get alot in the bowl, skake it thru a stainer to get excess off.

7. 7

   This is a very, very fast paced thing! We always cut it to make small pieces, and we bent in any sharp edges to make it easier for the kids. I have poured it into the cookie sheet and as it sets up, you scour it with a pizza cutter. When completely cooled you can break it apart. It all depends on whether I have help or not.