Butterscotch Hard Candy
Old Fashioned Butterscotch Hard Candy is just like those butterscotch flavored hard candies that you used to find in your granny’s candy dish. I’m sharing the full recipe and keys to success so that you can make this candy at home.
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Servings: 60 pieces
Calories: 103kcal
Ingredients
- 2 2/3 cups granulated sugar
- 4 cups light corn syrup
- 5 tsp butterscotch extract
- orange food coloring
- butter, to grease pans
Directions
- Butter two rimmed baking sheets well. Set aside.
- Combine sugar and corn syrup in large pot. Heat on high until the mixture comes to a boil then cover and boil for 3 minutes.
- Remove cover and reduce heat to medium-high. Continue cooking and stirring frequently until mixture reaches hard crack stage, 300-310 degrees F on a candy thermometer.
- Once thermometer reaches 310 degrees F, remove pot from heat and add food coloring. Stir well.
- Allow the sugar mixture to cool a moment then add butterscotch extract. (Be careful! The steam can be intense.) Stir very well.
- Continue stirring and pour butterscotch candy mixture into two prepared pans. Use buttered pizza wheel to cut score lines into candy. Allow to cool 30 – 60 minutes before breaking into pieces along score lines.
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Nutrition Facts
Serving: 1 grams | Calories: 103 kcal | Carbohydrates: 27 g | Cholesterol: 1 mg | Sodium: 17 mg | Sugar: 27 g
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