Comments on: Christmas Lollipops

By: bailey

bailey — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:24:19 +0000

that is such a good idea and it sounds so good I might have to try that

By: suzanne

suzanne — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:14:33 +0000

what a great idea! the steps you laid out were simple and easy to follow! thanks :)

By: Cigarest

Cigarest — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:40:22 +0000

This was an interesting post to read. Please give me more detail via e-mail.

Thanks :)

By: Marie

Marie — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:37:09 +0000

Vandra – Good question. Although it’s different everytime, just depends on which style I make them in. At least 20, if not up to 30. So you need to get it all ready for at least 25-30 sticks, just in case it makes more.

By: vandra

vandra — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:13:45 +0000

i love the idea, but how many lollipops does this recipe make?

By: Pam

Pam — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:47:15 +0000

Are you supposed to spray the molds too?

By: Marie

Marie — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:31:56 +0000

CAB – I’m glad you made these, but sorry that there were problems. I guess I didn’t specify how many lollipops it could make. I can usually get 20-25 out of this recipe. The molds I use are my Mom’s and are old. I actually haven’t used plastic molds before, but here is a great site to see where the gal just used molds for suckers: http://blissfullydomestic.com/blissful-kids/valentine-lollipop-pencil-toppers/

Maybe looking at this will help. I’m glad the ones you did make were good. The recipe is easy, but yes, it does take a while for the temp to get up. And if you do go over on heat, it does have a funny burntish taste. So you do need to be ready with all your molds, like 4-5 trays, right when the liquid is at the right temp.

I hope it goes well for you again. Oh, and since this post, for old-fashioned suckers, I’ve found that tinfoil works better than wax. But spray either one well before use.

By: CAB

CAB — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:42:40 +0000

Oh my, we tried this today. I got all the supplies – including one mold from Hobby Lobby that is plastic and makes about 6 lollipops that are mayyyybe 1/4″ thick? Anyway, needless to say we had a ton of leftover lollipop liquid sitting in the pan after just pouring those 6 and had to wait 15 mn. for them to harden…well, naturally the liquid in the pan hardened as well. We tried reheating it to pour some more, but the lovely strawberry flavored and colored lollipops weren’t what we got the second go around – instead they were darker and had a slightly funky carmelized-ish taste to them – we had to ditch the rest of the batch – bummer.

How many molds did you have on hand, thoughts on avoiding this in the future – etc. etc. seemed like such a waste after waiting for what seemed like a longggg time to get the temp. up high enough the first go so we could pour one tiny batch w/our one tray mold.

Thanks.

On a positive note, those first 6 got big thumbs up from the children and we did pour some “old fashioned” looking ones as well, although it seemed some of the wax paper came off on a few of them….hmm.

By: Celeste

Celeste — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:38:45 +0000

Thanks for the resources my kids and I make them for speical occasions but all of our supplies are from the 80’s when my brother and I used to sell them at school. I needed new stuff. thanks again

By: Marie

Marie — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:22:26 +0000

Emily – Bummer to hear they didn’t harden. The liquid must get to the “hard crack stage” on your thermometer if that’s what you’re using. The liquid is very thin since it is sooo hot and pours out thin and fast. Then once it’s been poured, hitting the air, it should harden within a few minutes. If it doesn’t harden and is a little soft like a taffy, then you didn’t go high enough on the temperature.

Here’s a great recipe that describes the candy making and temperatures, scroll down to see the pictures: http://www.baking911.com/candy/chart.htm

Try to follow the recipe exactly, no more sugar than it calls for. If you don’t want to waste the flavoring, you could do a test run. The recipe is only sugar and water and corn syrup. It’s the flavoring that goes fast and is costly. Maybe try that, but know it won’t taste good, just do this for getting the right consistency.