Hard Candy Recipe

bigbillyrocka

bigbillyrocka

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[EDIT] Just found this recipe to be of Paula Dean over at Food network. Although the Cannabis wasnt her idea. ;) (nor mine)

First off let me say that this recipe isnt mine, I found it on the internet last week sometime. Second, they're delicious and easy to make! :hug:

What you'll need:

1/4 cup Cannabutter. (i used 1/2 cup)
3/4 Cup sugar.
1/2 cup Light Corn Syrup.
i Box (3 oz) Jello. any flavor will do.

I used orange (3 oz) and lime. (about 3/4 oz) to help with the extra butter added.
first time i used Raspberry and lime and was fantastic!

Also you'll need either 20 lollipop sticks OR candy molds.i use candy molds for all my candy making. Youll also need a Candy Thermometer.

Directions:
Butter two candy sheets or your candy molds. On mine, i didnt Pre-butter mine. they pop right out of my candy molds with no problem.

In a small sauce pan over low heat, stir butter, sugar and corn syrup until the sugar has fully dissolved. Slowly bring to a boil, stirring frequently.

Put the candy thermometer into the pot (mine clamps on the side) and let boil till the heat reaches 275 degrees. Once it reaches 275, pour in the jello and stir (rapidly) till the jello/sugar mixture is smooth.

Remove from heat and take caution while pouring, as this melted sugar is HOT HOT HOT and can cause serious injury!

Use a metal spoon (i used a table spoon) to carefully pour the mixture into the molds, slowly yet in a quick manner. It sets up pretty quickly if youre going too slow.

after they have cooled to the touch i cover them with powdered sugar (confectioners sugar) so that if they were to start to "sweat", they would'nt stick to one another.

These are great candies to snack on. Take them to work for that final hour or 2 before getting off, a ball game, or just eat when you get a candy fit. Ill be making more candies (of my own recipe completely) soon and will post as i do.

:peace: hope you enjoy these little gems as much as i do. :peace:

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Vapor Nation

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Once I've managed to wrangle up everything that I need here, some hard cannacandies are definitely going to be made by this guy. Thanks for posting dude, I'm stoked! These ranchers are going to be unusually jolly :wink:
 
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PrincessDenyse

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Thanks so much for this recipe. I'm not gonna make hard candies, but I AM gonna make toffee (because of the 1/2 cup of budder in a 9x9x1" should make the toffee pretty strong). I've been trying to find a top-shelf ounce or so of trim, to make my own potent, nice, tasty cannabutter. Unfortunately all the dispensaries in my area can't seem to keep good, crystal trim in stock; so i had to purchase 3 "sticks" of budder (supposedly top-shelf). Basically, i needed to know whether re-boiling my budder was gonna burn it or something (plus any kind of hard candy, toffee, etc always needs to boil & be measured perfectly). So, thanks for the heads-up w/your recipe! I'll post again once the toffee is done & leave my recipe (if it comes out okay). Stay high!
 
bigbillyrocka

bigbillyrocka

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I reheated mine a few times without burning. I even had an issue with my butter seperating from the mix so I let it harden a bit and re heated the mix and it came out perfectly. People love em and are always buying from me. I feel like a candy man. :) my butters potent! Just melted maybe 2 T-spoons on top of some home made waffles and within 15 mins I started feeling it. So much so that half way thru my 3 & 4th waffle I had to put it away. Keep me posted with your baking and such. Better to be high and happy than drunk and stupid. ;)
 
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MakinProgress

Active Member
Well, just finished making these about 15 minutes ago - and the butter separated from the candy when I got up to about 250-260 degrees.

I still ended up pouring the candy into the molds, so we'll see how they work... but I've got a good bit of butter just laying around on my mold now outside the candy.

I saw in the ganja lollipop thread (same recipe) that 3 people had this same issue.

Any idea as to what I'm doing wrong here?

If this doesn't work, I may just stick with baking things using the butter.
 
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MakinProgress

Active Member
So, the candy is really delicious, but there's almost no high. On my 4th piece tonight and there is barely any high at all. What a waste :( I did some reading though, and it seems like it was my fault, not the recipes that the butter separated.
 
bigbillyrocka

bigbillyrocka

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Yeah I had a batch that separated too so I poured it and let it slightly harden and cool then re-did the batch and it worked. Don't know voodoo but it worked. And I sell them like crazy. :)
 
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stickyicky77

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MakinProgress said:
So, the candy is really delicious, but there's almost no high. On my 4th piece tonight and there is barely any high at all. What a waste :( I did some reading though, and it seems like it was my fault, not the recipes that the butter separated.
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You should decarb your buds before you make your oil or butter. Then add soy lethigen to boost potency. You can also add soda water to make your candy glow under a black light. Check out BadKittySmiles thread https://www.rollitup.org/cooking-cannabis/412878-badkats-cannapharm-canna-caps-uv-8.html
 
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stickyicky77

Well-Known Member
bigbillyrocka said:
[EDIT] Just found this recipe to be of Paula Dean over at Food network. Although the Cannabis wasnt her idea. ;) (nor mine)

First off let me say that this recipe isnt mine, I found it on the internet last week sometime. Second, they're delicious and easy to make! :hug:

What you'll need:

1/4 cup Cannabutter. (i used 1/2 cup)
3/4 Cup sugar.
1/2 cup Light Corn Syrup.
i Box (3 oz) Jello. any flavor will do.

I used orange (3 oz) and lime. (about 3/4 oz) to help with the extra butter added.
first time i used Raspberry and lime and was fantastic!

Also you'll need either 20 lollipop sticks OR candy molds.i use candy molds for all my candy making. Youll also need a Candy Thermometer.

Directions:
Butter two candy sheets or your candy molds. On mine, i didnt Pre-butter mine. they pop right out of my candy molds with no problem.

In a small sauce pan over low heat, stir butter, sugar and corn syrup until the sugar has fully dissolved. Slowly bring to a boil, stirring frequently.

Put the candy thermometer into the pot (mine clamps on the side) and let boil till the heat reaches 275 degrees. Once it reaches 275, pour in the jello and stir (rapidly) till the jello/sugar mixture is smooth.

Remove from heat and take caution while pouring, as this melted sugar is HOT HOT HOT and can cause serious injury!

Use a metal spoon (i used a table spoon) to carefully pour the mixture into the molds, slowly yet in a quick manner. It sets up pretty quickly if youre going too slow.

after they have cooled to the touch i cover them with powdered sugar (confectioners sugar) so that if they were to start to "sweat", they would'nt stick to one another.

These are great candies to snack on. Take them to work for that final hour or 2 before getting off, a ball game, or just eat when you get a candy fit. Ill be making more candies (of my own recipe completely) soon and will post as i do.

:peace: hope you enjoy these little gems as much as i do. :peace:

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How many candies do you get out of one batch ?
 
bigbillyrocka

bigbillyrocka

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Depends what you use as a mold. I use a skull shaped ice cube tray. Made out of silicon and get 8 per tray. Also have little pumpkin shapes. And I get about 24 pieces in a batch
 
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Albern

Member
Hi Billy,
Great hard candy recipe and thanks for sharing with everyone.
I have checked the ingredients and found all in stock so will hard candy this weekend and will share my reviews later.
 
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mountaingirl2

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Just a heads up. I read the recipe from Paul Deen and the recipe above is not the same. The recipe calls for 1/2 stick butter which is only 4tsp .NOT 4TBS. which is only a third of what is suggested here. Also the temperature is supposed to reach 300 which is for hard crack candy not 275. That makes a difference and may be why people have floating butter in their recipe. I used shatter for mine because I wanted to know dosage and for this recipe I used 1.5 grams THC and .5 CBD shatter. This was put in candy molds and filled one full tray of 64 pieces and about 40 pieces of the second tray. I think this will be about 12mg of active ingredient per piece. I do not want them to be so strong that people will get freaked out. You can always suck another piece. That is about a single dose when buying at a dispensary. They are cooling in the fridge. They definitely set up quickly. I did put the pot back on the stove and reheated a minute for the second tray. Hope that helps.
 
Amaximus

Amaximus

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No.

A half stick of butter is 4 (FOUR) TBSP. (TABLESPOONS)

A stick of butter even says so on the package. Hell, it has 'cut lines' every 1 TBSP.


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mountaingirl2 said:
Just a heads up. I read the recipe from Paul Deen and the recipe above is not the same. The recipe calls for 1/2 stick butter which is only 4tsp .NOT 4TBS. which is only a third of what is suggested here. Also the temperature is supposed to reach 300 which is for hard crack candy not 275. That makes a difference and may be why people have floating butter in their recipe. I used shatter for mine because I wanted to know dosage and for this recipe I used 1.5 grams THC and .5 CBD shatter. This was put in candy molds and filled one full tray of 64 pieces and about 40 pieces of the second tray. I think this will be about 12mg of active ingredient per piece. I do not want them to be so strong that people will get freaked out. You can always suck another piece. That is about a single dose when buying at a dispensary. They are cooling in the fridge. They definitely set up quickly. I did put the pot back on the stove and reheated a minute for the second tray. Hope that helps.
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