Reader Edible Request: Magical Butter Hard Candy

Reader Request:

Can you show a simple recipe for hard candy or lollipops? I have a Magic Butter machine, but I am still learning what and how to do this baking. My husband has a broken back and I have cancer. We can not smoke at a lot of places but we can eat hard candy for the pain mostly. If you can help with the cooking by telling me a simple way or the best way, I will be very grateful.

Thank you,

Rene

Magical Butter Hard Candy

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup MagicalButter tincture, reduced down into the syrup
• 2 cups granulated sugar
• 2/3 cup light corn syrup
• 3/4 cup water
• 1/2 teaspoon lemon emulsion
• 1 teaspoon LorAnn Oil super strength flavor of your choice
• 5 to 10 drops of food coloring
• hard candy molds
• candy thermometer

Directions:

Step 1: Put your tincture in a 1-quart non-stick saucepan and heat on low. Cook until almost all of the alcohol has evaporated (about five minutes). It should look like molasses.

Step 2: Add emulsion and flavoring extract to complement the flavor of candies you want to make. Then stir.

Step 3: Remove from heat and let cool for five minutes.

Step 4: Mix sugar corn syrup and water together in a large saucepan and stir over medium heat until sugar dissolves.

Step 5: Insert candy thermometer, making certain the thermometer doesn’t touch the bottom of the pan. Bring mixture to boil without stirring.

Step 6: Continue to cook the set up without stirring until the temperature reaches 260°F. Add food coloring and do not stir. Continue to cook until thermometer hits 300°F.

Step 7: Remove from heat precisely at 300°. Add flavoring and tincture reduction and stir quickly.

Step 8: Quickly pour into prepared moles and let sit at room temperature for five minutes.

Step 9: Let your Magical Butter Hard Candy cool completely and break apart. Coat with powdered sugar if desired.

Magical Butter Tincture Recipe:

Ingredients:

• 14-20 grams botanical per cup
• 2-5 cups of Vegetable Glycerin or 95% ethanol Alcohol (150-190 proof)
• 1-2 tablespoon sunflower lecithin per cup

Directions:

Step 1: Place all of the ingredients into your MB2 Machine.

Step 2: Press the “Temperature” button and set at 160ºF (This is the temperature that you want to use for all of your extractions. The other temperature settings are for cooking.)

Step 3: Press the “4 Hours/Tincture” button (you can do your tinctures for 4 hour or 8 hours (an 8-hour tincture is going to have a STRONG flavor and a deeper saturation)

Step 4: Strain to remove botanicals and your tincture is ready to use.

Notes:

• Do not add water.
• Use sunflower lecithin. It helps your infusions – immensely.
• The alcohol in the Tinctures is flammable and so are the vapors. Only make Tinctures in a well-ventilated area with nothing around the machine that could cause it to ignite. No smoking or any type of flames around the MB2 machine!