Candy Cane Recipe: Candy cane, also called a peppermint stick, is a peppermint candy shaped like a cane. People commonly hang candy canes on Christmas trees as decorations. Traditionally, candy canes have white and red stripes with a peppermint flavor, but today, people make them in many colors and flavors.

This Candy Cane Recipe describes the traditional color and flavor, but you can create your own color and flavor combinations too.

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Candy Cane

Recipe by Vipasha

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Course: Candy, SweetCuisine: German

Servings

servings

Prep time

minutes

Cooking time

minutes

Calories

184

kcal

Total time

hour

This homemade Christmas special Candy Cane is kids favorite and if its made at home mom’s favorite too for kids.

Ingredients

Peppermint flavouring – 1 tsp.
Light corn syrup – 3/4 cup
Red eatable color – 3/4 tsp.
Cream of tartar – 1/4 tsp.
Granulated sugar – 3 cups
Water – 1/2 cup

Directions

In a pan combine sugar, water, light corn syrup and cream of tartar. Heat this mixture until sugar dissolve completely.
Now divide this mixture into two sauce pan and heat, but don’t stair until temperature reaches 141° C. Once sufficient temperature reached add equal peppermint flavouring in each portion. Also add red eatable color in one portion. Mix well.
Pour both mixtures separately onto prepared pans or a marble table. But must oil the table. Let it cool to handle easily.
Now role both mixture separately and make a sausages like shape. Lay the 2 sausages next to each other and twist together.
Gently roll the twisted length with the palm of your hand until the 2 sausages are joined and smooth and make a rope.
Cut the rope into desire length and bend the one end of each to make a cane shape.
Now leave them to cool completely. Store and enjoy this lovely tasty homemade hygiene candy cane.

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