Make your own taffy candy from 100% natural honey — Honey Taffy is an easy one ingredient recipe to make with your kids!
Welcome to the September 11, 2016 edition of Sunday Scratchups: Your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients. You can’t get much better & easier than One Ingredient Honey Taffy, right?
The birds and the… bees?
You guys already know about the artist formerly known as MashupDad’s backyard chickens hobby… but I don’t think I’ve yet mentioned his beekeeping hobby!
He has a couple of hives here and at a friend’s mini-farm, which keeps us in the most awesome local honey you’ve ever tasted. This recipe? He found it online and tried it with the kids last week. If you don’t have your own source of local honey, I saw 40 oz jars of organic honey at Costcothis week for $7.49, you can pick up 100% honey on Amazon, or bulk honey often goes on sale at stores like Sprouts or Fresh Thyme.
Update: Check out MashupDad’s new observation beehive!
How to make one ingredient honey taffy
Ingredients
1 lb real honey (about 1 1/2 cups)
Directions
Bring honey to a boil in an uncovered medium saucepan over medium heat (about 5 to 7 minutes). Continue to boil until honey registers 280 degrees on a candy thermometer (about 10 to 12 minutes).
Line a pan with parchment paper and coat lightly with cooking spray. When the honey reaches temperature, pour it onto your prepared pan and allow to cool on the counter for 20-25 minutes.
Spray your hands with nonstick spray, and break off about a third of the cooled honey. Begin to pull and stretch the honey, continually folding it and working more air into the taffy.
As you continue to pull and incorporate air into the taffy, it will start to firm up and become lighter in color. Keep doing this for about five minutes, or until taffy has lightened in color from dark amber to tan.
When taffy is tan and firmed up, roll it into several long thin snakes and place these back on your parchment paper lined pan. Refrigerate pan for 10 minutes, then use a knife coated in cooking spray to cut each taffy roll into one inch long pieces.
Roll up each piece of taffy in wax paper, twisting the ends to close.Makes 80 pieces.
That’s it — You just made honey taffy!
Seriously: That’s it, one ingredient candy! Although High School Guy helped out here, his braces prevented him from actually enjoying any of the taffy — this is some seriously sticky stuff. It’s also seriously sweet, but Mr. 9 thought it was… if you’ll pardon the expression… the bee’s knees.
Honey taffy is naturally gluten and dairy free, so a perfect choice for families with food allergies. This is such a fun & simple dessert recipe to make with kids, or to use for gifts!
One ingredient honey taffy is naturally gluten and dairy free, so a perfect choice for families with food allergies. This is such a fun & simple dessert recipe to make with kids, or to use for gifts!
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You can handle and knead a taffy mixture into a mass desirable for pulling adding color and flavoring while doing so. If taffy is too sticky to handle dust hands with powdered sugar or rub butter on hands and work slowly until cool enough to handle. If taffy becomes too hard it can be held over heat to soften.
The ingredients for Bit-O-Honey are rather simple. It's a mixture of corn syrup, coconut oil, egg whites, honey, sugar, and milk.Once all those ingredients are mixed together and put into the mold, chopped almonds are added into the mix to top it off.
Why do I add cornstarch? The addition of cornstarch (called cornflour in British recipes) helps give the taffy a smooth texture. Why do I add corn syrup? Corn syrup acts as an "interfering agent" in this and many other candy recipes.
Honey crystals are made from the combination of sugars and pollen found in raw honey which is why they are sometimes called 'candy', for their sweetness. These crystals form when honey is kept at cold temperatures - just like ice on a lake, sugars will clump together and rise to the top.
Energizing Honey Candies are made by Cooking at least one Courser Bee Honey together in a Cooking Pot. Since they're composed entirely of Courser Bee Honey, there is no default version of Honey Candies, as all results grant the energizing effect.
Try adding 1/8 teaspoon of baking soda before pouring out the syrup. This will create many tiny bubbles that should result in a lighter, chewier texture. Try twisting together taffy ropes of different colors or flavors for fun new combinations.
When you eat sugary foods, the natural bacteria in your mouth ferment them and turn them into acid.This acid can then eat away at the enamel that protects your teeth and cause sensitivity. Bacteria can also damage your teeth when they build up in your mouth, and the enamel wears away.
Taffy is a type of candy invented in the United States, made by stretching and/or pulling a sticky mass of a soft candy base, made of boiled sugar, butter, vegetable oil, flavorings, and colorings, until it becomes aerated (tiny air bubbles produced), resulting in a light, fluffy and chewy candy.
The two oldest candy types are licorice and ginger. The historical roots of licorice are found in the early years of man's appearance. In particular, many licorice were eaten by Pharaohs and Prophets. The licorice comes from a plant called “Glycyrrhiza” which in Greek means «sweet root».
It is pulled and then folded in half, until it is extremely stretchy. This does have a purpose, and that purpose is to add air bubbles in the candy. It makes it chewier, and lighter to eat. In fact, taffy is already pretty difficult to chew, but this makes it a bit easier.
If our taffy feels hard, it is most likely because it is cold; try holding the taffy snugly in the palm of your hand for a few moments, the warmth should soften it right up!
As it turns out, pulling taffy aerates it, or incorporates many tiny air bubbles throughout the candy. This makes it lighter and chewier. Taffy isn't the only candy out there that gets pulled this way. We saw molten lollipop pulled by a machine at a local lollipop factory.
Below are five ways to use honey in food, including as a natural sweetener, salad dressings, baked goods, glazes and marinades, and beverages. Honey can add moisture and a subtle sweetness to baked goods, such as bread, muffins, and cookies.
Honey is largely fructose and is therefore much sweeter than refined sugar. Depending on the honey, it can be two or three times sweeter than sugar. For every 1 cup of sugar, replace it with 1/2 to 2/3 cups of honey.
Yes, honey candy is healthy! Honey is high in antioxidants and has anti-inflammatory properties. It also has a high level of nutrients like vitamins and minerals.
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