How to Make Candy Corn

Halloween is coming and candy corn has become a staple in the memories of any trick-or-treater. The colorful, triangle shaped candy is certain to show up in candy bags all over. The tradition of candy corn has made it the most popular candy treat in the United States especially during Halloween.

Although candy corn colors are widely known to be yellow at the bottom, orange in the middle, and white on manufacturers have transformed the holiday candy corn developed in the form of various parts. Red and green for Christmas, it's pink and red for Valentine's Day, and bright pastel colors for the Easter holidays are used.

Over the years, the unique formulation has remained the same. Although it is usually candy sugar from corn syrup and carnauba wax ingredient is usually given in the softness of>candy corn is mainly from the tiny bit of marshmallow that is later included.

Today, manufacturing companies use large machines to process the grand amount of candy corn consumers purchase every year. The molded candy ingredients are poured into large sheets of cutout corn shapes where the candy is left to harden. The millions of candy corn are then dumped into buckets where they are later separated and packaged to be delivered to your local grocery store shelves.

Unfortunately for us, we are not mechanics and heavy machinery to create the sweet corn of large size. What can we do for our Halloween is to make candy from a more traditional style. Before you begin, you will need a vase, a bowl large and small, tools, agitation, and some wax paper for the final product does not adhere to each other.

Ingredients

2-1/2 cupspowdered sugar
1/3 cup nonfat powdered milk
1 cup regular sugar
2/3 cup corn syrup
1/4 teaspoon of salt
5 tablespoons of salted butter
1 teaspoon of vanilla
Yellow and red food coloring

In the saucepan, bring the sugar, butter, and corn syrup to a boil. Reduce the heat to medium and let it continue to boil for 5 minutes then remove from the heat.

In a large bowl, mix the powdered sugar, powdered milk, vanilla and salt. Pour the contents into the saucepan and allow it to sit until it turns warm.

Divide the dough into 3 parts (these are the layers for your candy) and put each part in a small bowl. Add the appropriate food colors to each small bowl. If you need, grab some plastic gloves since the food coloring may stain your fingers and knead the dough until color is fully absorbed.

Roll each dough part into long, thin rope-like strings. Connect these three pieces together so that they make one, long multipart rope.

Cut the dough rope into triangles creating a three-layer color candy corn. Let the candy sit until hardened. Use the wax paper to separate the different cut outs to keep them from sticking to each other.