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Homemade Taffy Recipe

Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time30 minutes
Cooling and Pulling Time30 minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: candy, Dessert recipe
Servings: 36
Calories: 89kcal
Author: Cindy Hopper

Ingredients

  • 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 a stick of butter on our hands
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 package unsweetened, fruit-flavored drink mix (like Kool-Aid) (We used Cherry)
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Instructions

  • Butter a 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 the mixture until the candy thermometer read 250 degrees F (120 degrees C). This takes some time to get it to 250 degrees. Once the temperature 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 a buttered baking pan.
  • Allow it to cool enough to handle, about 15 minutes.
  • 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 opaquer and lighten in color.
  • This takes about 10-15 minutes of pulling.
  • Pull into long ropes and cut with buttered scissors.
  • Wrap pieces of taffy in pieces of waxed paper and give it a good twist on each end.

Nutrition

Calories: 89kcal | Carbohydrates: 22g | Protein: 0.01g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 0.4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.02g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.2g | Trans Fat: 0.03g | Cholesterol: 2mg | Sodium: 76mg | Potassium: 1mg | Fiber: 0.01g | Sugar: 21g | Vitamin A: 19IU | Vitamin C: 0.01mg | Calcium: 2mg | Iron: 0.01mg