Making homemade suckers is really simple and fun!

We just got these new metal hard candy molds in our shop and I couldn’t wait to try them!  To make suckers you need some type of molds (or you can drop spoonfuls of the candy on the top of sucker sticks) , flavorings , coloring, sucker sticks and sucker bags. Everything else you should have in your kitchen.

Homemade Lollipop Recipe

1 cup sugar

1/3 cup white (light) corn syrup

1/2 cup water

1/2 tsp flavoring

food coloring

Grease inside of molds with shortening or cooking spray. Place molds on flat greased surface. A marble slab or or new cookie sheet works great. If using the metal molds, place clip over tabs and insert sucker stick between tabs.

Combine sugar, water and corn syrup in a small sauce pan. Stir mixture over medium heat until sugar is dissolved (about three minutes). Raise temperature to medium high and cook without stirring until mixture reaches 300 – 310 (hard crack stage). This takes about 10 minutes depending on your stove. Once the mixture gets to 250 it moves quickly so watch closely. Once at hard crack stage remove immediately from heat.

Carefully stir in coloring (I used a drop of deep pink) and flavoring. Pour mixture into a glass or ceramic pitcher.

Fill molds.

Allow to cool until candy is set. Remove clip from mold then remove mold from lollipop.

Yummy!

Allow to completely cool on a flat surface. Once cooled place in sucker bags, tie shut and share with friends!

You can even make the lollipops opaque. See my Tips For Making Lollipops. You might also like to have your lollipops fit on top of a pencil. See how to with Pencil Pops.


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Comments

  1. Dear Madam, kindly let me know where can I get those metal moulds because in Chennai only plastic moulds are available.

    Thank you and awaiting for your earlier reply.

  2. Dear Madam, this is in connection with your lolly pop mould and could you please mail me where can I get those moulds because here only plastic moulds are available(I am in Chennai).

    Thank you very much and waiting eagerly for your earlier mail about the moulds.

    Vasantha Vijaya Raghavan.

  3. I just found this recipe and just received my metal molds and sticks . Will make them right now. I hope Mio works as a flavor. Wish me luck and I will be back to let you know how they turned out.

  4. Thanks for carrying these sucker molds in your store. I have been wanting to try these for a while, but its soooo hard to find the actual metal sucker molds. I bought some and they were fun and easy to make.

  5. wow i signed up for making loillipops for the food confection thing at my local fair so goo job showing me how to make them

  6. Where do you get the ghost molds and ghost eyes? I have never seen anything like that here.

  7. HOORAY! I have been searching for these metal molds for years! Now I can return my sisters molds that I borrowed from her. 🙂

  8. Wow! How much fun is that? I can’t wait to try this when my granddaughters come for summer vacation. The more I look, the more great ideas I find. Keep up the good work. Could I share this recipe on my blog?

  9. wow my aunt used to make lollypops and i had totally forgotten until i saw this post!! thanks for the memory jog!

  10. Cool!! I never knew that they had metal ones, like this. You displayed the process very well 🙂

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