Cooking time 5 minutes. Clean up 1 hour. Time in counseling to get over the shock of it all? Indefinite. This is my story about a Alton Brown's recipe for candy corn. Here are the ingredients.
Step 1: Basically sugar in various forms, butter, dry milk.
Step 2: Sifting. So far, so good.
Step 3: Mixing. Boiling. Waiting for 230˚.
Step 4: Not liking the color, but going with it. Trusting Alton Brown...
Okay this color is all wrong, but maybe it's rustic candy corn.
When cool enough to handle, most is hard as a rock. We fashion homemade See's Candy caramel pops from the molten material. It's ugly, but tastes wonderful. Try steps 1-3 again.
Hello! The color is right! Let's let it cool for 10 minutes.
Aaaaaand it's hard as a rock again before we can get the dye incorporated.
This is what our candy corn looks like in the trash.
My mom and I trudge on, and recreate Kojo Designs' Felted Wool Wine Sleeve. And we chew on hard toffee caramel all night. The end.
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