Sunday, August 21, 2011

how to make rock candy


This was a fun project that i did last year just for fun. It was good too. :-) The picture shows the kind that you can get in the store. I don't make them as good as they did like with the colors but mine were okay.
Supplies/Ingredients -
2 cups of water
3 cups sugar
1/4 cups corn syrup
food coloring (opt)
flavoring (0pt)
pencil
paper clip
string
jar

1. Boil a pot of water on the stove. Tie one end of the string to the pencil. Then clip the string so that it's about 1 cm from the bottom. Tie on the paper clip.
2. Wet the string, and roll it in sugar. Put in the sugar and corn syrup into the boiling water and stir it. You can add coloring and flavoring. Then pour the boiling mix in to the jar. Leave an inch at the top. (forgot to say, don't put the pencil in when you're pouring. It'll be messy)
3. Don't refrigerate it. Leave it out in like a window sill. Watch it till it grows crystals.
Good luck!