Make homemade suckers and sell
them for your next fundraising event. With a relatively small
investment in ingredients, combined with a little teamwork and fun in
the kitchen you can make and sell hundreds
of handmade lollipops. The cost of materials for making
300 lollipops (including sugar, corn syrup,
molds, flavoring, food coloring, sticks, sucker bags and twist ties)
will be
about $40. Sell
them for $.75 each and your profit will be $185.
Lollipop Recipe:
1 3/4 cups granulated sugar
1 1/2 cups light corn syrup
1 cup water
2 teaspoons candy flavoring
oil, any flavor
1/4 teaspoon liquid food coloring (any color)
lollipop molds - any shape
lollipop sticks
sucker bags
twist ties
Prepare molds by lightly spraying
with non-stick cooking spray and inserting
sucker sticks. In a large saucepan, mix together sugar, corn syrup
and water. Stir over medium heat until
sugar dissolves. Bring mixture to a boil
without stirring. When syrup temperature
reaches 260 degrees F., add color.
Do not stir; boiling action will incorporate
color into syrup. Remove from heat at 300
degrees F. or when drops of syrup from hard, brittle
threads in cold water. After boiling action ceases, add
flavoring oil and stir. Pour syrup into
lightly oiled lollipop molds and allow to cool at
room temperature (do not refrigerate) . Remove from molds and
wrap in individual plastic sucker bags and
tie with a twist tie. Depending on mold
size, this recipe will make about 30 - 40 suckers.
Contributed By:
Sandy Grettenberger,
LorAnn Oils Inc. (Lansing, Michigan)
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