Lollipop caramel on a stick in the form of a cockerel from our childhood or a newfangled overseas lollipop is a delicacy loved by children of different generations. Making sugar candies at home is quite simple, many of us used to make them. Only now they have forgotten a little. Let's remember old recipes and maybe some of you will learn new and more interesting ones. Moreover, homemade lollipop caramel advantageously differs from the purchased ones in that it does not contain flavor enhancers, stabilizers, dyes and other harmful ones.

Warning! You should not give small children caramel with solid filling (they can accidentally choke on it) and on a short stick, as children can swallow it (we already wrote about this in the article about e).

What you need to make caramel on a stick

To make a regular lollipop candy on a stick, you only need 2-3 ingredients: sugar, water and a few drops of vinegar or a little more lemon juice. The acid is needed so that the candy mass does not crystallize. But before, we did it without acid. If the sugar melts and then crystallizes again, it's okay - keep heating and stirring and it will melt again. The main thing is not to overexpose on fire, otherwise the syrup will acquire a bitter taste. Burnt sugar candies are not for everybody's taste.

You also need a wooden spoon or spatula for stirring and a deep cooking container - a small saucepan, ladle or bowl with a thick bottom, or a frying pan with high sides. Many people worry that it will be difficult to clean the container from the frozen syrup. But it should just be filled with water and left to stand. The frozen syrup will completely dissolve in the water.

In order for the caramels to turn out on sticks, you need to prepare them in advance, otherwise, while you are looking for or taking them out, the syrup may freeze (and it freezes quickly). If you do not have lollipop sticks, then they can be successfully replaced by wooden sticks from, kebab skewers, toothpicks or, if there is nothing at all, matches (break off the tip with gray or cut off with scissors).

You will also need lollipop molds. Metal or silicone are suitable for making cookies; if they are not there, then you can use spoons or a baking sheet, just pouring neat little puddles over it. If there is a hazelnut, then this is also a good option: you can make round candy nuts or chupa chups using only the lower part of the hazelnut. But the syrup will have to be done twice. Put the halves already hardened and taken out of the mold on the molds that are still hot, just filled with sugar syrup, and both halves will grab each other. Place sticks between them. Don't forget to grease your homemade candy tins vegetable oil (silicone can not be lubricated).

How to make caramel on a stick

You need to start preparing the mass for caramel over medium heat, stirring all the time; when it boils, reduce the fire by half. When the syrup turns golden brown, heat it for another 20-30 seconds and then remove from heat. In terms of viscosity, the syrup should resemble office glue. To test, drop the syrup into a glass of cold water. If the drop has solidified, then the syrup is ready. After removing the container from the heat, you need to stir the syrup a little more until the bubbles disappear and you can pour it into molds.

To diversify the color and taste of candies, they can be made with milk, cream, fruit and vegetable juice; add to cocoa syrup, cinnamon. On the molds, you can decompose the figures from a, pour sunflower or pumpkin seeds, nuts. Also, caramel is very tasty with fresh crushed fruits and berries or raisins, candied fruits, dried apricots, dried prunes. And already frozen caramel can be dipped in or applied with a brush, rolled (sprinkled with water or smeared with a thin layer of honey) in sesame or coconut.

By the way, lollipops can help with colds if lemon is added to sugar syrup. They will soften your cough. And to relieve a runny nose, it is good to add mint. good for both cough and runny nose. But honey cannot be added to hot sugar syrup, because when heated, it emits harmful substances.

You can decorate Easter cakes with lollipops: make domes using shapes in the form of hearts. Sticks will need to be attached on the other side of the hearts and stick them into the finished cakes. Or, if there are forms with hares, make caramel Easter bunnies.

Lollipop on a stick

To make the caramel on a stick familiar to us from childhood, you need to prepare

10 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar
4 tbsp. spoons of water
4 drops of vinegar (or 1/4 teaspoon of lemon juice)

1. In an iron bowl, combine water, sugar and vinegar;
2. put on medium heat and stir;
3. when the mass boils, reduce the heat slightly, continuing to stir;
4. remove from heat when the syrup turns golden and runny;
5. stir the syrup a little more so that the bubbles disappear;
6. pour the syrup into greased molds;
7. insert wooden sticks immediately. Done! Wait 10-20 minutes for cooling.

Caramel with fruit or vegetable juice

Caramel will turn out colored from juice, for example, cherry or beetroot. Water can be completely replaced with juice - as you like. Take

10 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar
2 tbsp. spoons of water
2 tbsp. tablespoons of juice

Prepare caramel as described above, but the readiness of the syrup can be checked not by color, but by the viscosity and hardening of the droplet in a glass of water.

Cream caramel

6 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar
2 tbsp. tablespoons of cream
you can add vanilla

Lollipops with cocoa

1 cup of sugar
2 teaspoons of cocoa powder
50 grams of water or milk

Lollipop caramel with fruit

Prepare

150 g any fruit
1/2 cup sugar (or less if the fruit is very sweet)
3 tbsp. spoons of water

1. Grind the fruit in a blender or grater;
2. mix sugar and water and cook until golden brown;
3. remove from heat, add fruit and mix well;
4. decompose the mass into molds, and insert sticks into the center;
5. leave the lollipops to cool, you can in the refrigerator.

Caramel candies with berries

100 grams of any berries (raspberries, currants, cherries)
1 tbsp. the spoon
1/2 cup sugar
you can add vanilla

1. Chop the berries and mix with jam;
2. put sugar and vanilla on fire and cook until stringy and golden brown;
3. mix both mixtures;
4. pour the mass into molds, stick in the sticks and leave to cool.

Watch the video how to cook whole fruits and berries (apples, grapes, etc.) in caramel

Long forgotten sugar candies were once loved by everyone and very popular. Despite the abundance of sweets in our time, modern kids will undoubtedly appreciate this delicacy.

After all, the process of making lollipops is a real magic, as from ordinary water and sugar, magnificent sweets are obtained, which are no worse than the current chupa-chups.

Simple sugar candy recipe

This is the most common way to make sugar candies at home. It will not take you much time and will only bring positive emotions, especially if you do this business with your children.

In a ladle or frying pan, mix the water and sugar. On average, we put four times less water than sugar.

Add a couple of drops of vinegar, it prevents sugar crystallization, without it the candy will be cloudy. Citric acid can be added instead of vinegar based on your taste preference.

On low heat, bring the mass to a boil, not forgetting to stir occasionally. Next, cook, without ceasing to interfere, until the composition acquires a caramel color. If you add a flavoring emulsion, you get a colored candy with different tastes.

We coat the pre-prepared forms with oil and pour the resulting syrup into them. After a few seconds, stick the sticks into the still hot lollipops and leave them alone until completely cooled (for about half an hour or an hour).

We take out the products from the mold. And now you can eat delicious sweets.

Burnt Sugar Candy Recipe

This recipe is not much different from the classic version of making "cockerels" (as sugar candies are often called). But the taste is markedly different.

Ingredients:

• Burnt granulated sugar - half a glass;
• Plain water - 4-5 tablespoons;
• Vegetable oil for lubricating molds;
• Molds;
• Lollipop sticks;
• Citric acid (a scanty pinch, you can do without it).
• Vinegar (about 2 tablespoons).

Mix burnt sugar with water, add vinegar (lemon), put on fire, stir. After boiling, stir over low heat until the composition becomes a bright amber color.

For the fastest preparation of lollipops from burnt sugar at home, before placing in a cool place, the molds can be lowered for a minute in a container with cool water. Just so that the water does not touch the candies themselves.

By the way, take a note: Burnt sugar lozenges can help with coughs.

Sugar honey lollipop recipe

In addition to simple sugar candies, you can make more sophisticated chocolates at home. One of these is "cockerels" with honey flavor.

Ingredients:

• Sugar - half a kilogram;
• Honey - 20 grams;
• Butter - 50 grams;
• Boiled water - half a glass;
• Vegetable oil - 1 tablespoon;
• Fruit syrup - 2 tablespoons.

Put sugar in honey warmed up in a saucepan, then grind it with a spoon. Pour in water a little at a time and mix the mass.

Pour the melted butter into the resulting mixture. Next, pour out the fruit syrup, but you can do without it.

On low heat, constantly stirring, cook the candy mass until it thickens. When the product acquires a golden brown hue, it can be poured into molds, which must first be greased with vegetable oil.

Insert a stick into each lollipop and send to the cold until it solidifies.

You can use ordinary toothpicks as sticks at home. Before serving, each honey lollipop can be wrapped in plastic wrap, so it will retain its attractive appearance for a long time.

Forms and flavors for sugar candy

The easiest option is to buy special forms in the store for making sugar candies at home. They are of various types.

The most common: cockerels, Snow Maidens and Santa Clauses, various animals, mugs like chupa-chups and even molds in the form of modern children's idols.

Having turned on your imagination, you can use any kitchen utensils as molds, for example, ordinary spoons, small glasses, ice molds, silicone baking dishes and much more.

If there are no options, you can simply pour the lollipop mass onto a plate, and after hardening, chop the lollipop into pieces.

As a flavoring agent at home, you can replace the water with which you mix sugar with compote or juice. Syrup or juice is also used to give a certain color to the product.

So, for example, pink or red will turn out when you add juice: pomegranate, cherry, raspberry, strawberry. By adding squeezed spinach juice, you get a green color.

Cocoa or chocolate will give a brown tint. Carrots are orange-yellow in color. All this will add a certain flavoring flavor.

There are also food flavors (you can buy them in advance in the store): mint, barberry, apricot, lingonberry, nut, there are an infinite number of them. By adding a couple of drops while cooking, your sugar candies will have a matching flavor.

Homemade candy recipe.

Homemade lollipops: a classic recipe

You will need (for 10 lozenges, 20-25 g each): - 1 tbsp. white sugar; - 5 tbsp. l. water; - 1 tbsp. l. 9% vinegar; - candy molds; - wooden sticks.

Take a saucepan or bowl with a thin bottom, preferably stainless steel or copper, add sugar and water. Place the pot on the highest heat and bring the liquid to a boil, stirring occasionally. Keep the vinegar ready and as soon as the syrup starts to foam, immediately pour the vinegar into the saucepan. It is necessary to prevent the caramel from becoming sugared and acquire a more uniform texture.

The optimum temperature for cooking caramel is 135-150 degrees

Cook the caramel over low heat for 10-15 minutes. Do not stir it in order to avoid the formation of many air bubbles. Nevertheless, do not move far from the stove, so as not to miss the exact moment when the viscous mass is ready. It should not turn dark brown, that is, overcooked, otherwise toffee will turn out instead of hard candies. Take a small amount with a teaspoon and drip it into cold water. If the droplet hardens immediately, then the caramel is ready, if not, cook for a few more minutes.

Homemade lollipops: variety of colors and flavors

If you are using color or flavor, add it at the very end of the caramel preparation. For this, it is not necessary to use factory powders, provided that there are natural products at home that give the color and taste you need. Red and pink shades will appear in sweets from raspberry juice, cranberry, lingonberry, cherry, currant, beetroot. Coffee, burnt sugar and cocoa powder give brown color; white - milk, cream, icing sugar; yellow - pounded lemon zest and saffron; green - spinach broth, etc.

Take the molds, coat the inside with vegetable oil using a narrow cooking brush and gently fill with the hot sweet brew. Cut the sharp edges off the wooden sticks, break them in half and insert them into the slots. If you do not have molds, this is not a problem, you can make lollipops without them. Spread out parchment paper, oil it, and dab the caramel in small specks. Let them harden, then pour a second layer on top of them and immediately put sticks in it up to half the diameter. Fill the cakes with a couple more of the same, pausing for them to harden.

If bubbles nevertheless appear on the surface of the lollipops, quickly rinse them in warm boiled water.

Leave the lollipops for a few hours or from evening to morning, remove and wrap in plastic wrap.

Try homemade sugar candies that are delicious and clear. What is not unimportant, they prepare quickly and the whole process is quite understandable even for beginners in this business.

These homemade lollipops are suitable for decorating children's cakes, they can be supplemented with various candies or meringues on the cake itself. They look very appetizing and bright, thanks to their transparency and colored sprinkles. Homemade lollipops are a great treat for kids and a substitute for store sweets, especially since you fully know what you make them from and are confident in the quality.

This is not the only homemade lollipop recipe, but one of them. A little later I'll show you what other options there are. For this method, you need a kitchen thermometer, because without it it is very difficult to determine what temperature the frosting is. I will tell you all the details below, I hope this recipe is useful to you. And also I advise you to look, which is prepared from only three products and it turns out very tasty.

Ingredients:

• Sugar - 110 g
• Water - 35 g
• Invert or glucose syrup - 50 g
• Confectionery sprinkles

How to make sugar candies

First of all, add sugar to a saucepan with a thick bottom, add water and invert syrup, instead of which you can take glucose syrup. I already showed a simple one, so check it out. Stir the added ingredients and put on fire. I make the fire slightly above average, that is, if I have a scale on an electrical surface from 1 to 14 divisions, then I turn it on to 10.

In the meantime, I am preparing various confectionery sprinkles that will decorate our sweets. You can take a little of everyone, as I did, or choose only those that suit you in color or shape.

When the mass began to boil, I note the time and cook for exactly 12 minutes, or to a temperature of 150 degrees. All this time, every 10 - 15 seconds, I stirred this mixture so that it would not burn. The mass will foam, but that's okay. When I see 150 degrees on the thermometer, I remove the saucepan from the heat and then everything needs to be done very quickly.

If you have lollipop molds, use them, but I don't have one, so I'll take a Teflon mat, and a silicone mat will work as well. Long skewers should be prepared in advance. Now I take a tablespoon of caramel and pour it onto the rug to make round sweets. I pour three of these circles, then sprinkle them with sprinkles and insert the skewers. Then again I do three circles and everything else, and so on until there is caramel. It is important to pour it in one place, then the correct shape will be. If you immediately fill in a lot of circles, and only then you pour in the powder, then it simply will not stick, since the caramel freezes instantly.

This is the whole recipe for lollipops, as you can see everything is extremely simple. It remains to let them freeze and you're done. They freeze in just a couple of minutes, so you won't have to wait long. They move away from the Teflon mat very easily and do not stick, it will be the same from the silicone mat.

These are such transparent and colorful sugar candies at home. This is a really tasty treat that no child will refuse. They will perfectly decorate any festive table or children's cake. I advise you to do them too, it's worth it, especially since you don't need a lot of time.

It is hard to imagine, but candy caramel celebrated its 500th anniversary! The author of this wonderful invention is unknown, but we will say one thing for sure: all Soviet children were very fond of "cockerels". Even now, despite the abundance of candy, caramelized sugar is very popular among adults and kids. We will teach you how to make sugar candies at home. We hope that you can pamper yourself and your loved ones with homemade sweets.

How to make caramel at home

Making caramel is a quick process. However, before you learn how to make a chupa chups at home, pay attention to some of the nuances:

• Cookware - only with thick walls. A cast iron skillet or aluminum pan is ideal. If there is no "correct" container, then the "wrong" one will do, for example, a non-stick frying pan.
• Caramelize sugar over low to medium heat, do not forget about an apron and gloves that will protect from burns.
• To ensure that the candy making process does not end in failure, stir the mass continuously throughout the cooking process.

From sugar

In order to make sugar cockerels at home, you need to prepare in advance:

• a small colorless saucepan (to watch the color of the caramel change);
• 350 g of sugar (better than white);
• 4 tbsp. spoons of water;
• wooden spoon.

Preparation:

1. Heat a saucepan over medium heat for a few seconds.
2. Without removing from the stove, pour in all the sugar.
3. When some of the sugar has melted, mix the resulting mass and leave it on the fire, until a dark amber color is obtained.
4. Turn off the heat, add warm water to the pot and stir. Pour the caramel into tins.

From honey

You already know how to make caramel at home. For those with a sweet tooth who follow the figure, it is better to make sugar-free lollipops using honey. Such candies will be tasty and less nutritious. In addition, these sweets are useful for colds - a real medicine for a sore throat. Depending on the fruit syrup, candy tastes differently.

Ingredients:

• 250 g of any honey;
• 5 tbsp. tablespoons of butter;
• 4 tbsp. tablespoons of syrup;
• 50 g of filtered water.

Preparation:

1. Put honey in a saucepan, pour in water, stir gently and put on low heat.
2. After the sweet mass becomes liquid, add any berry syrup (make it yourself or buy it at the pharmacy).
3. Melt the butter, pour it into sugar mixture, stir and reduce heat.
4. When the syrup has boiled down in half, remove it from the heat, pour it into greased molds and cool. Place the caramel in the refrigerator until it hardens completely.

Fruit

Do you know how to make caramel at home? What else can you make from sugar? We suggest trying the recipe for caramel with fruits or berries - use any. Sweets made from strawberries, raspberries, cherries, pears, apples, grapes are especially tasty. Experiment, create and you will become a guru of the candy industry! It is recommended to store caramel in a closed cool container.

Ingredients:

• 50 g of filtered water;
• 50 g sugar;
• 2 cups fresh fruit
• 1 tbsp. a spoonful of lemon juice;
• 1 tbsp. a spoonful of filtered vegetable oil.

Cooking method:

1. Chop the fruit finely, put it in a saucepan, add water and lemon juice, which will help the fruit retain its beautiful color. Simmer over medium heat until soft.
2. Mix the resulting pulp with a blender. If the puree is thick, then you need to dilute it with a little water.
3. Preheat oven to 70 ° C. Put a plastic wrap on the bottom of the baking sheet, grease it with oil and pour the resulting puree.
4. Smooth out the spread with a spatula and place the baking sheet in the oven (in the sun) for six hours.
5. Remove the resulting sweetness from the baking sheet, and replace the polyethylene with baking paper. Put everything back, put it back in the oven (in the sun) for six hours.
6. Cut the caramel into small pieces. Sprinkle cornstarch on our candies to keep them from sticking together.

Forms for lollipops

In Soviet times, ordinary tablespoons served as a form for lollipops, into which the syrup was poured. Particularly fashionable comrades had special metal units on the farm, which in our time are easier to find in a museum than to buy. Marketers and scientists have come to the aid of modern housewives, who have created silicone molds for lollipops. I poured the syrup into it, cooled it down - and voila! The lollipops are ready, easy to get, even without prior oiling. Instead of a special shape, you can use silicone or plastic ice containers.

How to make DIY lollipop molds

In order to completely correspond to the trend, molds made by yourself can help in the production of sugar candies at home. Take ordinary "floating" candles, from which take out the contents. Since these units are not for food, cover the bottom of the mold with parchment paper of the correct diameter. There are other options as well. Instead of candlesticks, regular glasses or even a cut-off bottom of a plastic bottle can serve as a shape for candy.

Video: lollipop recipe

There is no "chemistry" in homemade sweets. Plus, making sweets can be an excuse to spend a great weekend with your family. We hope this article has helped you become an expert in making homemade sugar candies. If you still have questions on how to make cockerels, this video will dot the “i's”. Choose your favorite candy on a stick recipe - and go for a sweet journey!