Homemade Lollipops

For my son’s backyard carnival party, I wanted to order these awesome teal lollipops from This Charming Candy. I now can vouch that February (the month of love and all things sweet) is indeed the worst month to try to order candy in a pinch! I thought to myself, rather than scrap the idea, why not make them. Being that I have always heard that hard candy is temperamental, I was a bit hesitant. But these ended up being easy, inexpensive, fabulous looking, and great tasting. Find the really simple recipe here.

The recipe makes at least 12 lollipops. I recommend purchasing two molds (found at Hobby Lobby for $3 each) so that you can make at least 12 lollipops at once without having to deal with trying to “reheat” any hardened sugar mixture.  Who knows how that will turn out. For flavoring, I picked up one of the extracts from Hobby Lobby, found next to the candy molds. A couple of drops of blue gel food coloring mixed with a smaller amount of green (found in the baking section of the grocery store) will give you the pretty clear teal color that I achieved. The outcome, one happy little boy that was impressed with his mommy’s candy making skills.