We make our own lollipops. Homemade lollipops

Since early childhood, I have been an avid lover of sugar candies. There are so many wonderful memories associated with them! Childhood has passed, but love remains. I still can’t imagine my life without sugar candy with a mug of black unsweetened tea while watching movies :)

But constantly buying them in the store is a complete waste. In addition, store-bought “cockerels” taste less and less like the candies from childhood...

In this regard, I learned how to make candy at home. There are many ways to do this, but I suggest you the easiest and fastest recipe sugar candies!

Difficulty level: simple

Cooking time: 35-40 minutes

So, we will need:

table vinegar

sunflower oil

Let's start cooking!

Place the container on the stove over low heat. Pour sugar into a container.

Add water.

Now add a teaspoon of table vinegar. I use a bottle cap to avoid overfilling the vinegar. At first, the mixture will not smell very appetizing, but the vinegar will quickly evaporate - don’t worry!

How do you know when the caramel is ready? Very simple! It takes on an amber hue. Attention! Don't overcook until it turns brown!

When the caramel becomes homogeneous, pour it into molds. This must be done very quickly - the caramel hardens quickly!

Every person has many childhood memories of candy: crispy cockerels on sticks, caramels and candied candies. How can you go back in time and make candy at home? We have prepared ten proven recipes for you, thanks to these instructions you will enjoy a great meal.

With sugar

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Take: a glass of sand, 2 tablespoons of drinking water, 1 teaspoon of vinegar and 2-5 drops of sunflower oil. These products are enough for 10 lollipops.

Place the cooking container on the hot plate. Iron mugs are better;
Pour granulated sugar into a bowl. Add water. It is important to maintain the proportion, since if cooked incorrectly, the sugar mass will thicken too quickly;
Pour a teaspoon of table vinegar into a container. Be prepared for the fact that at this stage the delicacy will not smell appetizing, but the vinegar will soon dissipate;
Cook the caramel, but do not let it boil and stir regularly. While the mixture is boiling, wipe the molds (it is acceptable to use regular ones for ice) with vegetable oil to make the candies easier to pull out;
When the caramel in the mug foams and turns amber in color, turn off the stove and stir. Once the caramel is smooth, use a small spoon to pour it into the molds and insert the sticks. If you don’t have real ones, stick toothpicks or plastic straws cut off at the ends into the molds. To keep your homemade candies longer, wrap them in cling film or paper bags.

You will need: 400 grams of granulated sugar, 200 grams of glucose syrup, 60 milliliters of clean water, a few drops of food coloring of the color you like. You can add some fruit juice or soda to the water. This will make the taste of sweets richer and more original.

Pour all the available sand into the saucepan. Top it with glucose syrup;
Pour out the water, stir well. Place everything over medium heat and stir until the sugar grains are completely dissolved. Do this for 120-180 seconds without leaving the stove unattended;
When the syrup boils, reduce the heat and simmer until the caramel thickens completely. Before pouring the caramel into the molds, be sure to drop some coloring into the mixture. They are usually sold in convenient bottles, so you definitely can’t go wrong with the quantity;
Place the lollipops on baking paper. This recipe eliminates the need for molds, so simply form neat colorful circles using spoons and insert sticks into them. It will take about 120 minutes for the caramel to completely harden. Leave the candies at room temperature and be a little patient.

Take: 240 grams of sugar, butter and citric acid to taste and 4 tablespoons of water. These ingredients will suffice if you plan to make 10 candies.

It will take no more than a quarter of an hour to prepare this dish. First, prepare a double-sided rooster-shaped mold. You can use others, but the original candy is made in the shape of a bird. Soviet molds are suitable; they were made in the shape of hares, squirrels and fish. If you don’t have these at home, buy standard silicone ones for cookies. The more original the appearance of the treat, the more young children like it;
Pour the granulated sugar that was poured into the pan with water, add citric acid. Stir and cook until the mixture acquires a characteristic caramel color;
Grease the molds with vegetable oil and pour the thick mixture into it. After a couple of seconds, insert the lollipop sticks, close the molds and leave to cool for 30 minutes.

You will need: For 6 servings you need 8 cubes of refined sugar, a teaspoon of pure lemon juice, 1.5 tablespoons of flavored water with lemon or ordinary soda. A little sunflower oil for processing the molds.

The cooking technology is simple and not very different from the following recipes. Add all types of liquid to the vessel with sugar;
Boil everything over low heat until a thin layer of sugar foam appears. Cool the solution slightly and stir until it thickens;
Grease the prepared molds (we recommend using unusual ones to make shaped sweets) with sunflower oil and evenly fill them with the resulting mixture. Let the sweets cool in a dark, but not cold place. The fact is that in the same refrigerator the candies will harden unevenly.

Take: 300 milliliters of hibiscus tea, a glass of cane sugar, juice of 1/2 fresh lemon.

Bring the sugared tea to a boil at 150. This will take about 20 minutes;
Remove the container with the drink from the heat and pour the juice into the container. Thoroughly stir the contents of the dish with a metal spoon;
Place the candy mixture onto the prepared sheet of parchment paper. Lightly sprinkle them with powdered sugar or potato starch. You can store sweets for quite a long time, the main thing is in a glass container and in a cool place.

Alternative Recipes

You will need: 2 bags of peppermint leaves, a tablespoon of dry medicinal chamomile, shavings from a cinnamon stick, half a spoon of ginger root, a glass of boiled water, 150 grams of liquid flower honey. It is worth adding mint essential oil to caramels.

Add all the dry ingredients from the recipe to the boiling water. Boil for 10 minutes;
Pour honey into the mixture and heat it over low heat until the candy liquid boils. Remember that the mixture should warm up to 145 degrees Celsius and no more;
When the mixture begins to thicken, turn off the stove and stir. Instill essential oil to improve smell and taste;
Using a coffee spoon, place the circles on baking paper. Just in case, you can sprinkle it with powdered sugar to prevent the candies from sticking. After cooking, you can keep them in the refrigerator in a glass jar, sprinkled with starch. This will prevent sticking.

Take: a glass of agave syrup, a few crystals of cream of tartar, 60 milliliters of clean water. Also use a couple of drops of liquid stevia, a dessert spoon of vanillin extract, 10 milliliters of vegetable oil.

To make cream of tartar candies, use cookie cutters. Grease them with oil to make it easier to remove the candies. It is better to use oil in a bottle with a spray function to apply a suitable layer thickness;
Pour the syrup into a saucepan and stir it with water. Bring the contents of the container to a boil over medium heat, add cream of tartar, beat with a metal spoon;
Stirring occasionally, bring to 140 degrees Celsius. A color change will be a signal that the desired temperature has been reached. The mixture will become darker and begin to become covered with bubbles. At this stage of preparation, add stevia, vanillin;
Stir everything and, just remove from heat, pour into molds. Insert sticks into still liquid candies to make them easier to eat. Place the lollipops on the refrigerator shelf for 60 minutes until they are completely hardened. You should not store them for a long time after cooking. To preserve the quality of the candies, wrap the sweets in parchment paper and place in a closed plastic container.

You will need: 200 grams of isomalt, confectionery powder, kandurin of the selected color.

Prepare a Teflon or silicone surface. It is important to use exactly this type, since isomalt sticks to other coatings. Pour the powder into a metal pan and melt, stirring constantly;
Mix isomalt and kandurin. The color will appear quickly, so add paint a drop or a few at a time;
Using a spoon, place the isomalt on the mat, immediately insert the stick and sprinkle with balls or shavings that you selected for the candies. Hurry, because isomalt hardens quickly. You will make two lollipops at a time, so reheat the remaining material and continue forming the lollipops. Please note that you cannot touch the finished sweets with your fingers: fingerprints remain on the isomalt. Store them in a dry place with moderate temperatures, because in the refrigerator the delicacy becomes cloudy and quickly deteriorates.

Take: 100 grams of warm coconut oil, the same amount of liquid honey, a teaspoon of cinnamon powder, 7-8 drops of coconut essential oil for internal use.

These candies require no cooking, which gives the recipe an edge over others. In a small bowl or blender container, beat the butter. Continue until the butter is soft and viscous;
Add honey to the bowl and continue mixing everything until the mass becomes homogeneous. Lastly, add cinnamon and flavor with essential oil;
Place the mixture into greased silicone molds and refrigerate for 60 minutes. This sweetness should be stored in a jar at low temperature.

You will need: 150 grams of fresh bee honey, a small spoon of butter, 8 drops of lemon essential oil. You can use liquids based on eucalyptus or lime, sage.

Bring honey to a boil after 20 minutes of heat treatment. Immerse a teaspoon of oil in it;
Give it a little time to cool, it takes a quarter of an hour. Add drops of essential oil;
Load the mixture into silicone molds or others you have on hand. Store the candies by coating them with starch, immersing them in a paper bag or jar. As you can see, homemade candy is easy to make and doesn’t require a lot of resources or money for cooking. So don’t be afraid to pamper your family and yourself with delicious treats!

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Prepare yourself or your child delicious lollipops using one of the recipes in the article.

All the kids are absolutely delighted with the lollipops. There are a great many of them on sale now. Choose whatever taste, color, shape, size you want! The composition and benefits of these sweets remain a big question, because they usually contain a lot of chemical additives and cheap dyes. Another thing is homemade caramels made from sugar, such as our grandmothers’ deli. In the form of cockerels, fish and stars. What prevents us from making delicious and completely natural lollipops using one of the recipes from the article?

How to make homemade lollipops in molds?

A beautiful candy shape is half the success. Would a round one surprise children now? Therefore, it is necessary:

look through cabinets and pantries to find a USSR-era metal mold
go to the market, supermarket, search on the Internet for modern forms, also metal or silicone

Metal mold for lollipops.

IMPORTANT: You can order the original mold for caramel on a stick on the website of the Chinese trading platform Aliexpress in this section of the catalog. Depending on the number of cells, size, it will cost you 150-500 rubles. To save money, choose stores with free shipping.

Molds for lollipops in the form of cartoon characters from Aliexpress.

Molds for lollipops in the shape of flowers from Aliexpress.

Children's molds for lollipops from Aliexpress.

“Grandma’s” recipe for lollipops is very simple; it doesn’t require anything other than sugar, a couple of grains of citric acid and water. If you want to add additional ingredients to the candies, we will teach you how to do this later. Now take:

granulated sugar – 4 tbsp. spoons
water - 1 tbsp. spoon
citric acid - a couple of grains

Caramel - a cockerel on a stick - is every child's favorite treat.

Increase the amount of ingredients proportionally depending on how many candies you want to get.
Pour water into a saucepan and add sugar. Take a small saucepan with a thin bottom, preferably enameled.
Boil the thick syrup until it becomes clear. Whether to stir the syrup all the time or not is a moot point.
The more you stir, the better the sugar dissolves. But when stirring, air bubbles form in the syrup, and your caramels will then be rough. But some people like just the kind that scratches the tongue.
The syrup will be ready when a drop of it begins to instantly solidify in cold water.
Add citric acid to the hot syrup.
Grease the metal molds with a little oil. There is no need to do this with silicone ones.
Pour the syrup into the molds.
Insert sticks into the lollipops.
Let the candies harden.

Lollipops in molds: step 1.

Lollipops in molds: step 2.

Lollipops in molds: step 3.

Lollipops in molds: step 4.

Lollipops in molds: step 5.

Lollipops in molds.

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How to make homemade lollipops without molds?

You can make lollipops using the same recipe, even if you don’t have molds for them.
You can pour in the boiled thick syrup:

in the box
in the cells of boxes of chocolates
in foil
in the form of droplets on a silicone mat or parchment

IMPORTANT: By the way, metal bases from tea candles can be used as molds for lollypops. You just need to cut a groove for the stick in them.

How many calories are in homemade candy?

The energy value of 100 g of caramel candy on a stick made from sugar and water is about 310 kcal. If you use additional ingredients, the calorie content of the treat increases.

Cough lozenges at home: recipe. Cough drops with ginger and honey

In the autumn-winter period, tablets, lozenges and cough lozenges are literally swept off the shelves of pharmacies, extinguishing the nasty symptom of a cold and soothing a sore throat. Many of them help doubtfully, but they contain 100% chemicals. To help yourself and your children, you can make cough drops yourself.

IMPORTANT: These lollipops contain natural ingredients, but, unfortunately, they are not suitable for everyone. Honey, ginger, lemon juice, and mint are quite strong allergens. Before consuming them, you need to make sure that the body does not have a negative reaction.

Take:

100 ml water (strong green tea or hibiscus tea, as some recipes recommend)
granulated sugar - 1.5 cups
juice of 0.5 lemon
honey - 2 tbsp. spoons
ginger root – 2 cm
ground turmeric, essential oils of eucalyptus and mint - optional in small quantities

First of all, you need to pour boiling water or brewed tea over the grated ginger root, add herbs and spices, essential oils to it, and leave for half an hour.
Next, cook the caramel by adding sugar to the strained infusion. Stir all the time so that the sugar does not burn.
When the syrup is thick, transparent and homogeneous, it will instantly solidify under cold water, remove the saucepan from the heat. Carefully and quickly enough, before the syrup has cooled, add honey and lemon juice into it.
Place a sheet of parchment paper on the table. Gently drop droplets of syrup with a teaspoon until they harden and turn into candy. For children, you can make cough drops on sticks.
If you store sweets in a jar or vase, sprinkle them with powdered sugar, otherwise they will stick together.

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Lollipops, like in childhood: recipe

To get caramel sticks with a berry or fruit flavor, cook them from jam or jam.
Take 300 g of homogeneous jam, add more sugar if necessary, and cook until it thickens. Make these sweets with or without molds.

IMPORTANT: Lollipops according to the recipe as in childhood can be cooked not with water, but with fruit juice. Just don't buy store bought!

Milk lollipops: recipe

Make a delicate milk caramel for the kids. Take:

granulated sugar – 200 g
milk – 100 ml
vanillin - on the tip of a knife

As in the recipe above, cook the caramel by dissolving the sugar in the milk.
Add vanillin to the finished syrup before pouring it into molds.
If you want to get something like toffee rather than caramels, add butter to the syrup.

Coffee lollipops: recipe

Cocoa powder or coffee added to caramels on a stick will make their taste less cloying. Take:

sugar – 1 glass
cocoa – 1 dessert spoon (or 1 teaspoon of instant coffee)
honey – 1 teaspoon
water – 75 ml

Boil the syrup from sugar, water, coffee or cocoa in the same way as in the classic candy recipe.

Honey lollipops: recipe

To make delicious honey candies, it is enough to add one more ingredient to the classic recipe - a beekeeping product in the amount of 2 tbsp. spoons

There is also a more original recipe - chocolate caramel with honey.
Take:

granulated sugar – 100 g
honey – 100 g
confectionery chocolate, black or milk - 90 g (bar)

You need to mix chocolate melted in a water bath with sugar and honey, cook this mixture until it thickens. Lollipops that have not yet completely hardened can be rolled in nut crumbs.

Peppermint lollipops: recipe

To make mint candies, you need to purchase mint essence. When you boil the syrup according to the classic recipe, add 4-5 drops of this essence to it. Sweets on sticks will pleasantly cool your mouth and freshen your breath.

Fruit lollipops: recipe

To make caramels on a stick taste like fruit:

cook them in juice or jam
add fruit essence to syrup

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Colored lollipops: recipe

Candies made from water and sugar have a pleasant amber color. You can replace it with additional ingredients:

natural dyes in the form of fruit and berry juice (blackberries, black currants, cranberries)
food colorings used for making confectionery products

Burnt sugar lollipops: recipe

Candies made from burnt sugar help with coughs due to acute respiratory viral infections and influenza, pharyngitis, tracheitis, bronchitis, and other diseases of the respiratory system. This tasty medicine is loved by children. Burnt sugar is obtained by caramelizing it.

IMPORTANT: Try not to overcook the caramel. The darker it gets, the more bitter it will taste.

Lollipops - New Year's caramel sticks: recipe

New Year's candies, two-color canes, are prepared in two ways - from caramel or mastic.

Lollipops - New Year's caramel sticks.

The first one is very difficult, you can use it only after mastering the technology of stretching caramel. In addition, it will need to be dyed and twisted into pigtails.
Mastic is much easier to manage. You can prepare the confectionery raw materials yourself or buy them ready-made in the store.

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Most children love sweets. Others love them. But what is the right thing to do for mothers who do not want to deprive their child of the joy of sweets and cakes but at the same time are worried about the health of the baby? The solution is not so difficult: you just need to learn how to cook sweets at home. Of course, lollipops, ice cream and sweets will never become 100% healthy food, but you can at least limit the amount of synthetic food additives in your child’s diet.

In this article, we will tell you how to make sugar lollipops at home and offer several recipes for lollipops that can be a worthy replacement for lollipops and other “miracles” of the chemical industry.

Basic homemade lollipop recipe

This recipe is the simplest method on how to make candy canes. In the future, you can modify it by adding ingredients to your taste (fruit juice, dyes, coffee, citrus zest, etc.), but the base of the candies is always the same. The basic recipe is the recipe for the famous cockerel lollipops, there is nothing superfluous in it. True, market “cockerels” are often painted in bright colors using food coloring.

Ingredients:

granulated sugar – 10 tbsp;
water – 10 tbsp;
vinegar - 1 tbsp. (preferably natural - apple or wine). It can be replaced with citric acid - 0.2 tsp;
vegetable oil (to grease the pan).

Preparation

Water, vinegar and sugar are mixed in a fireproof container (preferably in an enamel pan) and heated thoroughly. When the mixture becomes hot and the sugar begins to dissolve, reduce the heat and, stirring constantly, cook the syrup until golden brown. The cooking time depends on the amount of mixture in the pan - the larger the portion, the more time it will take to cook. From time to time, drop the syrup into a cup of cold water. As soon as the drop begins to harden, the lollipops are ready; you can pour them into a pre-greased mold. Don’t forget to insert the prepared sticks so that the lollipops have “legs.” You can buy ready-made sticks, or you can use matches, bamboo skewers or toothpicks (of course, the sharp edges should be trimmed). Cool the candies to room temperature, open the mold and enjoy.

How to make colorful lollipops?

To make unusual colorful candies, you will need to slightly change the basic caramel recipe.

Ingredients:

granulated sugar – 8 tbsp;
berry or fruit juice without pulp - 3 tbsp;
lemon juice – 1 tsp;
cooking sugar (optional)

Preparation

Mix all ingredients and heat in a fireproof non-stick bowl, stirring constantly, until the sugar is completely dissolved and golden caramel forms. If you've added brightly colored juice, relying on the color of the caramel isn't very reliable - check for doneness by dripping the caramel into cold water. As soon as the drop begins to solidify and not dissolve, the lollipops are ready (this is called the “ball test”). Add sprinkles to the finished caramel and pour into molds. Because the sugar and syrup juices have turned into caramel, the topping will not dissolve.

If you have food coloring, you can add it, then you will be able to make green, blue, bright red candies. But keep in mind that the powder dye must be thoroughly mixed with water before heating so that the candies are evenly colored.

Flavorings for candies can include citrus zest, coffee, rose or orange water, or synthetic food flavorings.

How to make a lollipop mold?

Authentic, antique lollipop molds are not easy to find these days. If you are the happy owner of just such a heavy metal form, congratulations. If not, don’t worry, finding an alternative to the classic form is not so difficult. Of course, you won’t be able to get three-dimensional animal figures, but who said that lollipops have to be exactly like that?

If you pour the caramel mass onto a flat baking sheet in neat puddles and put a stick in each of them, you will get beautiful candy circles. By pouring caramel in puddles into a shaped silicone mold, you will get fancy candies of an original shape. Very often chocolate boxes (with molds) are used as a mold. Some people make candy by filling cookie sheets lined with caramel. As you can see, there are a lot of options. The main thing is not to forget to grease the mold so that the lollipops do not stick, and to ensure that the material of the mold is able to withstand the temperature of hot caramel without melting.

These lollipops on wooden sticks in the form of golden cockerels, red Kremlin and other figures, large and small, are well remembered by those whose childhood was in the Soviet and first decades of the post-Soviet era. Even now, in bazaars, in busy city centers and on beaches in resort towns, you can find traders selling these caramels sparkling in the sun.

Homemade lollipops

Legitimate question: In fact, they are home-made, because gypsies and pensioner grandmothers sold this product “from hand”. Their sweets were most often “blown”, i.e. empty inside to save the products from which the delicacy was made. And if they could do it, so can you. The main thing is to just learn a couple of successful recipes on how to make lollipops at home! And, of course, working “inventory”. If you manage to get the appropriate molds, luck is definitely on your side. If not, use those that you have for freezing ice, containers from boxes of candy, small ones. Even regular printing paper, only pre-oiled, will do. And also - wooden sticks. Instead, toothpicks, divided popsicle sticks, or any homemade ones would be good. Now we’ll tell you the first recipe on how to make lollipops at home. For ten small lollipops you will need: sugar - 8 tablespoons, water - 4 of the same, vinegar 6% - 3 tablespoons, or without it. The dye is diluted in a few drops of water. Take very little of it too, otherwise you will recolor your tongue when you feast on the finished product! Along the way - useful advice on how to make lollipops at home tastier. Instead of dye, take a little of any dark jam (syrup from it) or berry or fruit juice. With juice, your candies will also be useful. Sugar is poured into a thin-walled saucepan, water is added - just enough to cover the sugar, no more. If you take juice, pour it right away. Immediately place the saucepan on high heat until the syrup boils. This happens very quickly. You can stir it so it doesn't burn.

When foam appears on the surface, vinegar is added, otherwise the sugar will begin to crystallize. Next, the recipe on how to make candies advises: if you want candies with air bubbles inside, keep stirring. If you want just transparent ones, leave the caramel mass for the next 5-7 minutes without intervention. And make the fire minimal. After 7 minutes, dip one stick into the saucepan, put a little “brew” on it, hold for a couple of seconds to check if it has frozen? If so, remove the pan from the stove, stir the syrup and fill the molds. Let the caramel harden slightly, then insert the sticks. When the candies have completely cooled down and hardened, they can be washed under running water to give a glossy shine. Or sprinkle with coconut flakes, powdered sugar, poppy seeds. Here's how to make a cockerel lollipop and many more - depending on the molds you have!

Juice lollipops

You can make sweets using only 2 products - sugar and juice. In this case, the products are taken from a 1:2 ratio. That is, a spoonful of juice - 2 sugars. 2 tablespoons juice - 4 sugar, etc. Citrus fruits are perfect for these purposes - lemons, oranges (freshly squeezed juice), pomegranates, cherries, currants. They simultaneously act as dyes and flavoring additives. Using the jelly principle, you can make two- and even three-color lollipops.

Good luck with your experiments!