These suckers or homemade lollipops are the perfect contribution to your Fourth of July celebration or 4th of july picnic. Wrap these up and hand them out amongst the class. The recipe is easy to follow and they are yummy too.
1 cup sugar
1/3 cup light corn syrup
2 Tablespoons water
1 teaspoon cherry flavoring
Red, white and blue nonpareil sprinkles
Non stick cooking spray
Sucker Lollipop mold
Lollipop sticks
Directions-
1. Spray a small amount of non stick cooking spray on a piece of paper towel and rub the cooking spray in the sucker molds.
2. Add about a 1/2 teaspoon of red, white and blue sprinkles to each mold with a lollipop stick.
3. In a heavy bottomed pot, combine your sugar, light corn syrup and water and mix well.
4. Bring your ingredients to a boil on medium heat stirring constantly with a wooden spoon or silicone spatula for about 7 minutes or until the temperature reaches 310° using a candy thermometer (caution this will be very hot).
5. Carefully (this will be very hot) pour your melted candy into your lollipop molds, let’s set for a few minutes and transferred to the freezer for another 10 minutes.
6. Carefully pop your suckers out.
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