recipe for candy canes?

[kimmee]

Does anyone have a recipe for homemade candy canes?? The store ones have gotten so gross - and (this will sound silly) I would like to make mini -more wholesome- ones for the weezils - THEY LOVE THEM! Plus for our gingerbread house! :santa:

[Sara Noel]

I haven't made these, but I posted this recipe on the forums awhile back.

Homemade Candy canes

3 cups sugar
1 teaspoon peppermint extract
1/2 cup water
3/4 cups light corn syrup
3/4 teaspoons red food coloring
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar

Combine the sugar, water, syrup and cream of tartar in a sauce pan and heat till the sugar has dissolved.

Divide mixture into 2 saucepans, bring to a boil (do not stir the mixtures in both pots) until the candy thermometer reads 280°F.

Add 1/2 teaspoon peppermint into each pot and add the red food coloring into one pot, leaving the other pot plain.

Oil an enamel or marble surface or slab. Place mixture from one pot and stretch it like taffy, pulling and forming the mixture into a rope. Set aside and continue with other pot doing the same thing.

Take both red and white ropes and twist them around each other again and again. Cut into desired sizes and form into candy cane shapes.

Oil the surface lightly again and place candy canes and allow them to harden

[kimmee]

Thanks - it sounds like its gotta be better than the grcery ones anyway!!

[Ellise]

Thanks Sara these sound great