Tricolor Taffy
- Ready In:
- 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup light corn syrup
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- nonstick cooking spray
- 1 teaspoon peppermint extract
- 1 teaspoon orange extract
- food coloring
- butter
directions
- In a 4-quart saucepan, combine sugar, water, corn syrup, and salt.
- Swirl the pot over the burner to dissolve the sugar completely, do not stir.
- Increase the heat and boil to soft-ball stage (250 degrees).
- Use a candy thermometer for accuracy.
- Wash down the inside wall of the pot with a wet pastry brush if necessary.
- Remove from heat, stir in the butter and vanilla.
- Coat 3 sheet pans with nonstick spray.
- Pour the mixture onto the sheet pans, dividing in 3 equal portions.
- Mix the peppermint extract and a couple of drops of green food coloring in 1 batch.
- Mix the orange extract and a couple of drops of yellow food coloring in another batch.
- Leave the plain vanilla batch as is.
- As the candy cools, lift the edges toward the center with a metal spatula or bench scraper so they don’t harden.
- When just cool enough to handle, butter your hands and pull the taffy into long ropes.
- Twist and pull until the taffy is stiff and the color is even.
- Cut the ropes into 1-inch pieces with clean, buttered kitchen scissors.
- Wrap each piece in waxed paper and store in an airtight container.
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Reviews
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Not a recipe to make by yourself! I made this with my mother and two sisters, we divided it into halves instead of thirds, this seemed to work better. Also used different flavorings (watermelon). The vanilla half was excellent! as was the watermelon half. Definitly best to use a bench scraper when the mixture is cooling. I used a spatula and it made a enormous mess. We used a knife to cut the ropes into pieces. Some hardened before we could cut them, but after placing them in a ziploc bag we dropped them on the cold tile floor and they broke into perfect size pieces. Thanks for posting the recipe Theresa, my sister's loved being able to make taffy just like Grandma use to.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Theresa Thunderbird
United States
Hello,I collect old cookbooks,enjoy gardening,traveling and reading.I love to cook and bake!I've thought about opening my own bakery here in TN.That would be so fun!