SNOW CANDY - Carlton Cooks!

These are the ingredients to make Snow Candy. — Make sure you find CLEAN snow!

Make Snow Candy on a Snow Day.

Good cooks know: Mise En Place. It may sound fancy, but the phrase mise en place is really just a French cooking term that means “setting in place.” When you say it out loud, it sounds like you are saying Meeze-on-Plahs. When I think of mise en place, I like to say “things in place.” Say that 3 times fast. Things in place. Things in place. Things in place.

When making some recipes you must have mise en place, otherwise you might burn your food and ruin the recipe. Snow Candy is that kind of recipe.

Safety Note: This recipe creates a boiling liquid and requires that a grownup do all of the work at the stove-top in addition to pouring the candy onto the snow. And remember, good cooks always read the entire recipe before they begin to cook.

INGREDIENTS:

1 cup of butter

1 cup of sugar

3 tablespoons of corn syrup

1 tablespoon of water

TOOLS:

Measuring spoons

Dry measuring cups

1 wooden spoon for stirring

1 stockpot or large (6 quart) saucepan

1 9×13 cake pan filled with CLEAN snow

Candy thermometer if desired

1 liquid measuring cup filled with completely with ice, topped off with water, and set aside.

DIRECTIONS:

First, measure all of your ingredients and have them ready to use, mise en place, before you start to cook.
Fill the liquid measuring cup with ice, and then add water to fill the spaces between the ice cubes. Set the ice-filled cup aside. This water will not be used in the recipe. It will be used to test the candy after it cooks
Next, HAVE YOUR ADULT place the butter, sugar, syrup and 1 tablespoon of water in the sauce pan and cook on medium, stirring constantly to prevent scorching. This recipe burns very easily. Your adult must stay with the pan at the stove until the candy is done.

This is a pot with the sugar, water, corn syrup and butter used to make Carlton's Snow Candy. — Place the sugar, water, butter and corn syrup in a stock pot.

This is Carlton's Snow Candy as the mixture thickens and becomes golden. — The mixture will turn a golden color, thicken, and follow the spoon around the pan.

4. When the candy mixture in the pan is a golden color, thickens slightly, and begins to follow the spoon around the pan, HAVE YOUR ADULT test it in the glass of ice water by dropping a teaspoon of the mixture onto the ice-filled cup. (Remember to keep stirring the contents of the pan.) Give the candy in the cup twenty-five seconds to cool (count to 25!) and taste the sample from the icy water. The mixture should be crunchy and not stick to your teeth. Candy-makers call this the hard-crack stage. If your adult uses a candy thermometer, it will read between 300 and 310 degrees. Remove the candy immediately from the stove. It will burn quickly at this stage.

This is Carlton's Snow Candy toffee being tested with ice water to be sure it is at the hard crack stage. — Test the candy using ice and water.

5. Finally, remember to step away as your adult gently pours the candy onto the snow-filled cake pan. Spread the candy in a thin layer over the snow. Let the candy sit on the snow for 8-10 minutes or until cool to the touch.

This is snow candy poured onto a plate of clean snow. — Have your adult pour the candy onto the snow.

6. Remove the candy from the snow and pat it dry with a paper towel. Break the candy into small pieces to eat.

Snow Candy on a plate. — Break the candy into pieces and enjoy!