Hot Cinnamon Hard Candy Recipe
This Cinnamon Hard Candy tastes just like Cinnamon Jolly Ranchers and makes your house smell like the holidays.
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Servings: 60 pieces
Calories: 99kcal
Ingredients
- 2 ⅔ cups granulated sugar
- 4 cups light corn syrup
- 3 tsp cinnamon oil
- red 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 red food coloring. Stir well.
- Allow the red mixture to cool a moment then add cinnamon oil (Be careful! The cinnamon steam can be intense.) Stir very well.
- Continue stirring and pour cinnamon 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: 99 kcal | Carbohydrates: 26 g | Fat: 0.1 g | Sodium: 14 mg | Potassium: 0.4 mg | Sugar: 26 g | Calcium: 3 mg | Iron: 0.005 mg
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