Welcome to our Sweat Sweet Shoppe! If you are alarmed by red dye, excessive amounts of sugar and under age workers turn away now!
If not, stick around and see how we made loads of homemade taffy!
Here's our recipe
Homemade Taffy
2 1/2 cups white sugar
3 tablespoons cornstarch
1 cup light corn syrup
1 1/3 cups water
2 tablespoons butter (plus lots extra to butter hands, we probably used over 1/2 of stick of butter on our hands)
1 teaspoon salt
1 - .21oz (6g) package unsweetened, fruit-flavored drink mix (like Kool-Aid) (we used cherry)****however I used Great Value brand from Wal-mart and those were the measurements on the package and it said it made two quarts of drink. On the Kool-Aid packet that makes two quarts it has different amounts (far less) I would still only use 1 packet since it is still flavoring the same amount of water.
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Butter large jelly roll pan or a cookie sheet with sides really well.
In a medium saucepan, stir together the sugar and cornstarch. Add corn syrup, water, butter and salt and stir well until butter is melted. Bring to a boil over medium heat and stop stirring. Cook mixture until candy thermometer read 250 degrees F (120 degrees C). This takes some time to get it to 250 degrees. Once it approaches 250 degrees watch very closely because it cooks quickly at the end. Immediately remove from heat. Carefully stir in vanilla and drink mix. Stir well. We should have stirred ours more-- notice some bits of drink mix (dark spots) on our taffy. Pour mixture onto buttered baking pan. Allow to cool enough to handle, about 15 minutes.
Directions:
Once the taffy has cooled enough to handle, butter hands and begin pulling. (It starts kind of translucent)
Then pull...and pull...butter hands again...pull...
and stretch...pull...more hand buttering...pull...
It will become more opaque and lighten in color depending on the attention span of your workers! This takes about 10-15 minutes of pulling.
Pull into long ropes and cut with buttered scissors.
and cut!
Wrap pieces of taffy in pieces of waxed paper
and give it a good twist on each end.
Finished!
Sweet!!
wow, this looks like fun! Can’t wait to do this with my son….but he’s only 10 months now! Maybe we can somewhat and it would be a good texture game hehe…
So adorable! The pics of the girls look like they had so much fun!
Kim @ http://frostmeblog.blogspot.com
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OH MY HECK!!! This looks like so much fun and yummy too!!!
I’ve wanted to make some homemade taffy for a while now and just haven’t. Thanks for the great recipe and tutorial. I am going to have to try this out soon.
Oh what a fun project and a great way to involve kids! These look sooo yummy!!
Looks like so much fun!
I haven’t made taffy since first grade and I recall us stretching it the length of the classroom
The red looks so pretty!
oooo…my teeth hurt just looking at the chewy deliciousness! This may be an awesome way for me to bribe my kids to clean their rooms…hmm
Hugs, Ingrid
Cool! I remember my aunts making this when I was little, and it’s a very fond memory. I’ll have to make it with my kiddos when they’re a bit older.
How fun does that look?! I’m definitely going to have to try this one with my kiddos. Thanks, Cindy!
What wonderful sticky goodness.
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This is a wonderful idea!
Do you have any suggestions for an alternative to using corn syrup? perhaps honey or agave?
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This is beyond adorable! I just love the idea and the images of your children are so precious. Thank you for sharing. I foresee some pink and purple taffy in my immediate future.
I so am going to have to try this with my son and his friends. Thanks so much for sharing.
This is such a good idea and the cutest pictures to show it!
this looks so yummy =)
Fantastic! It looks like a lot of fun but also a lot of work. How long did it take you? I’d love to give this a try.
Looks like so much fun! Instead of using butter on the kids hands could you just spray them with non-stick cooking spray?
You probably could spray the hands and I probably would have tried that if I had had some, but it does take alot of butter— I mean 1/2 a stick or more so I think the flavor might be better with the butter.
That looks fabulous! The taffy that I used to love has egg whites in it so I stopped eating it. I think I might have to make this, I miss taffy so much! I’ll be linking.
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can’t wait to give this a try- (i’m a taffy-a-holic)
Thanks for the fun post! I just had to grin looking at those adorable, cute girls — I am sure they had a blast making taffy! What a great mom to help them with this fun memory making project! Do they deliver?!
i think i will try with my kids, looks yummy and fun ! i love your pics !
thank for sharing !
Wow! This looks so fun and messy! I love taffy, and would never have thought of attempting it myself!
Thanks for sharing! My kids and I are going to make this on Friday, for sure! I love that you use kool-aid to flavor and color it. The possibilities are endless!!
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What a great idea! Thank you so much for sharing this idea with us! After some unusual sunny days, the rain has hit Seattle again. I think this will be a big hit for a rainy day activity!
All I can think of to say is…YUMMY FUN!!!
It look funtastic!!
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Wow, I never knew taffy was so simple to make! I even have every ingredient just sitting in my cupboards…waiting for taffy-making perhaps?! I think this will be on the agenda very soon! Thanks so much for this tutorial/recipe!!
Hi there, I skipped on over here from ohdeedoh. Great tutorial! I don’t know if we can conquer it, but I love knowing that it can be possible. Great blog… I’ll be visiting often!
This is awesome! Just stumbled it for you!!
That look slike fun. I may have to try this
I just came over from ‘CRAFT’. I just love your demo models…how happy they look! We just came back from the dentist with a clean bill of health, so I think I am going to have to stash this recipe for our next nasty-weather day! Hold off on the sugar just a bit more?
This looks like a blast!! And such cute pictures. I can’t wait to try it – thanks for sharing!
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So much fun! i can’t wait to try this with my daughter!
I have a couple of taffy recipes tucked away that I’ve not tried out of fear of pulling by myself! This makes it look like I could totally do it, though. :>) I linked on my weekly roundup (post is under my name) – thanks for the tiny shot of confidence!!
Great recipe! I just finished making a patch of grape taffy,
couldn’t stop eatting while I was packing the cake =)
Thanks for sharing, look forward for more fun recipes!
I just finished making this with my family. We all love it! Thanks so much for the recipe, I know we’ll be making this a lot more!
About how many do you think this made?
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What a fun project to do with children. I will have to have my grandchildren over this summer and give this a try. Thanks for sharing.
how long can this be stored? and if it sits for too long will the wax paper be hard to pull off? I only have the clear kool-aid, think it’d be okay to add food coloring? I’m thinking I’d add it when I add the vanilla and drink mix… any thoughts?