Homemade Candy Corn

Ingredients

• one
  
  cup confectioners’ sugar
  
  
• one/four
  
  cup instant skim milk powder
  
  
• one/eight
  
  teaspoon salt
  
  
• one/2
  
  cup granulated sugar
  
  
• one/4
  
  cup light-weight corn syrup
  
  
• one
  
  tablespoon drinking water
  
  
• two
  
  tablespoons butter
  
  
• one/4
  
  teaspoon vanilla extract
  
  
• one to 2
  
  drops orange food shade
  
  
• 1 to two
  
  drops yellow foods color
  
  

Instructions

1. Put a Silicone baking mat on a significant baking sheet.
2. In a medium-sized bowl, whisk collectively confectioners’ sugar, milk powder, and salt, established aside.
3. In a compact pot, mix with each other sugar, corn syrup, water, and butter. Put on large heat and stir with a Silicone spatula right up until every thing has melted with each other and the sugar has dissolved.
4. Connect a sweet thermometer to the side of the pot. Boil the corn syrup mixture, without the need of stirring, until eventually it reaches 240° F, about two to 3 minutes. (In candy-generating phrases, this is the soft ball stage).
5. Immediately take out from warmth and mix in the vanilla extract. Be cautious, as it could sputter a bit. Pour the syrup into the bowl with the confectioners’ sugar and milk powder. Working with your Silicone spatula, blend until anything is put together and the mixture kinds into a ball.
6. Dump the sweet corn dough onto the prepared Silicone baking mat. Depart for five to 10 minutes, till neat plenty of to handle. Break up the sweet corn dough into three equivalent-sized pieces. Color a single orange by incorporating a handful of drops of orange foods color, and color the other piece yellow. Knead the meals colour into the candy corn dough until eventually it is carefully blended in.
7. Take out about two tablespoons of each and every colour sweet corn and roll into skinny strands (about the width of a pencil). Wrap the remaining pieces in plastic wrap and set apart.
8. Stack the strips on top of 1 an additional starting off with the white and adopted by the orange and then the yellow. Press them together so they make a person tri-colored strip.
9. Employing a little paring knife slice triangles out of the strip to variety your sweet corn. Continue on with remaining mixture. Go away sweet corn items on the Silicone baking mat until eventually dry, about 2 hours. Maintain in a sealed container in a awesome, dry place.