Glass Candy

Ingredients:
2 cups water
1 cup white corn syrup
3 1/2 cups sugar
1/4 tsp cream of tartar
1/4 tsp vanilla extract
Few drops of desired food coloring

Add all ingredients into heavy pot. Bring the mixture to a voil. Continue stirring it  until it reaches 300 degrees F per a candy thermometer.

At 300 degrees pour the "lava" onto a jelly roll pan to cool. Do not lick the spoon!

In about an hour check the firmness of the candy. It should now be a solid sheet of "glass".

All I needed to do was to pick up the pan and release it in the air to have the pieces break. Smashed any pieces that seem too large.

Patriotic Cake Pops

So, I was at my Sous Chef's house over the 4th of July Holiday.  We decided to find something on good ol' Pinterest to make to be oh so festive.  Patriotic Cake Pops it was!

Ingredients: {Per cake pop mix directions}
3 tbsp oil
1/2 tsp vanilla
1/4 cup milk
1 egg
Cake Pop Mix

Super easy... add all the ingredients into a bowl.

Mix all ingredients together.  Be sure to scrape the bottom of the bowl.

Preheat the cake pop machine.  Grease the cake pop machine and add 2 Tbsp batter to each well.

 

Close the lid of the machine... no peaking for four minuets.

Pop out the individual cake pops and let them cool completely on a wire rack.

Once the pops have completely cooled melt the candy wafers one color at a time in the microwave, stirring every 30 seconds until all pieces have melted.

Dip each cake pop stick in the melted wafers and push into cake pop.  Then dip entire cake pop into the melted wafers.

If you are putting another melted layer decoration on, put the cake pops into the fridge to harden.

To add the white stripe use a pipping bag with a tiny tip.

If you are adding sprinkles, do this before you put them in the fridge to harden.

 So cute... we made an American flag out of our cake pops!