I Am Making Rock Candy!

Wednesday, January 4, 2012 | Megan at 10:30 PM |

I found the Rock Candy Recipe after typing it on google and looking for a way to make it faster than one week. Well, it doesn't look like there is much of a faster way than a few days although crystals start to show up within a few hours. Here are the pics of what I did to make my own rock candy. The plan is to see if I could make enough blue rock candy for wedding favors for about 250 people for June. Could I make them every once in a while this whole next semester? Could I make it so that they don't melt? Would they even taste good? No one knows. Here's what I did though:

First, I got a glass spaghetti jar, put a pencil on top, and measured out three pieces of cotton twine that touch the bottom of the jar. 

Then, I got a measuring cup, blue food dye, and some sugar and measured out one cup of water that I put on the stove top (don't boil) and then put two cups of sugar into the water to heat up. After it heated up I poured in some blue food coloring and the other 2 cups of sugar. 

This is the initial sugar water (2 cups of sugar, 1 cup of water).

This is the shade of blue that I was looking for (say 15 drops of blue food coloring) and the other 2 cups of sugar added. 

Finally, I poured the blue sugar water (1 cup water, 4 cups sugar with blue dye) into the jar and after moistening the twine and rolling it in sugar I put it into the jar.

We'll see in a few hours if I get any sugar crystals. The only other way to make the process go by faster, according to some websites, is to reheat the sugar water every day or so for a week. Let's see if I can get them onto the sticks or if I'll cut them up in pieces and put them in a box, but that might get kinda messy. If you have any ideas then just comment or send me an email. Thanks for the help!