Make your own taffy candy from 100% natural honey — Honey Taffy is an easy one ingredient recipe to make with your kids!
Welcome to the September 11, 2016 edition of Sunday Scratchups: Your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients. You can’t get much better & easier than One Ingredient Honey Taffy, right?
The birds and the… bees?
You guys already know about the artist formerly known as MashupDad’s backyard chickens hobby… but I don’t think I’ve yet mentioned his beekeeping hobby!
He has a couple of hives here and at a friend’s mini-farm, which keeps us in the most awesome local honey you’ve ever tasted. This recipe? He found it online and tried it with the kids last week. If you don’t have your own source of local honey, I saw 40 oz jars of organic honey at Costcothis week for $7.49, you can pick up 100% honey on Amazon, or bulk honey often goes on sale at stores like Sprouts or Fresh Thyme.
Update: Check out MashupDad’s new observation beehive!
How to make one ingredient honey taffy
Ingredients
1 lb real honey (about 1 1/2 cups)
Directions
Bring honey to a boil in an uncovered medium saucepan over medium heat (about 5 to 7 minutes). Continue to boil until honey registers 280 degrees on a candy thermometer (about 10 to 12 minutes).
Line a pan with parchment paper and coat lightly with cooking spray. When the honey reaches temperature, pour it onto your prepared pan and allow to cool on the counter for 20-25 minutes.
Spray your hands with nonstick spray, and break off about a third of the cooled honey. Begin to pull and stretch the honey, continually folding it and working more air into the taffy.
As you continue to pull and incorporate air into the taffy, it will start to firm up and become lighter in color. Keep doing this for about five minutes, or until taffy has lightened in color from dark amber to tan.
When taffy is tan and firmed up, roll it into several long thin snakes and place these back on your parchment paper lined pan. Refrigerate pan for 10 minutes, then use a knife coated in cooking spray to cut each taffy roll into one inch long pieces.
Roll up each piece of taffy in wax paper, twisting the ends to close.Makes 80 pieces.
That’s it — You just made honey taffy!
Seriously: That’s it, one ingredient candy! Although High School Guy helped out here, his braces prevented him from actually enjoying any of the taffy — this is some seriously sticky stuff. It’s also seriously sweet, but Mr. 9 thought it was… if you’ll pardon the expression… the bee’s knees.
Honey taffy is naturally gluten and dairy free, so a perfect choice for families with food allergies. This is such a fun & simple dessert recipe to make with kids, or to use for gifts!
One ingredient honey taffy is naturally gluten and dairy free, so a perfect choice for families with food allergies. This is such a fun & simple dessert recipe to make with kids, or to use for gifts!
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This impressive looking candy is easy to make. All it takes is a little time stirring at the stovetop. Honey and egg whites combine to create a chewy nougat that envelopes crunchy almonds and pistachios.
The ingredients for Bit-O-Honey are rather simple. It's a mixture of corn syrup, coconut oil, egg whites, honey, sugar, and milk.Once all those ingredients are mixed together and put into the mold, chopped almonds are added into the mix to top it off.
You can handle and knead a taffy mixture into a mass desirable for pulling adding color and flavoring while doing so. If taffy is too sticky to handle dust hands with powdered sugar or rub butter on hands and work slowly until cool enough to handle. If taffy becomes too hard it can be held over heat to soften.
Why do I add cornstarch? The addition of cornstarch (called cornflour in British recipes) helps give the taffy a smooth texture. Why do I add corn syrup? Corn syrup acts as an "interfering agent" in this and many other candy recipes.
Yes.Crystallization is a natural process that pure, raw honey goes through. Not every honey will crystallize, and some will crystallize faster than others. But it's a good sign that your honey is real and less processed.
Energizing Honey Candies are made by Cooking at least one Courser Bee Honey together in a Cooking Pot. Since they're composed entirely of Courser Bee Honey, there is no default version of Honey Candies, as all results grant the energizing effect.
The two oldest candy types are licorice and ginger. The historical roots of licorice are found in the early years of man's appearance. In particular, many licorice were eaten by Pharaohs and Prophets. The licorice comes from a plant called “Glycyrrhiza” which in Greek means «sweet root».
Yes, honey candy is healthy! Honey is high in antioxidants and has anti-inflammatory properties. It also has a high level of nutrients like vitamins and minerals.
The actual recipe behind taffy can vary quite a bit, but it generally includes butter, sugar, and flavoring. This sticky combination is used to create a gooey mass that is then pulled and pulled—and pulled some more! The end result is soft and chewy taffy in a flavor of your choosing.
The purpose of pulling the taffy is to add air in to the candy. This allows for millions of air bubbles to form which is how a clear batch of cooked taffy all of a sudden begins to turn bright white. The added air into the product also adds volume, and turns the candy into a much larger piece.
Modern commercial taffy is made primarily from corn syrup, glycerin and butter. The pulling process, which makes the candy lighter and chewier, consists of stretching out the mixture, folding it over, and stretching it again.
During the pulling process, the taffy is stretched and folded repeatedly. The pulling process aerates the taffy, incorporating tiny air pockets into the stiff candy mixture. The taffy is transformed into a light, fluffy, and easy-to-chew candy. It's a truly addicting candy that has stayed popular throughout the years!
1. SUBSTITUTE HONEY FOR SUGAR. Honey can bring a natural sweetness to baked goods like donuts, cookies and cakes and depending on the type of honey you use it can also add various flavors to your dishes. For instance, Orange Blossom honey can add a citrus note and Buckwheat honey will bring a molasses taste to foods.
Honey is much sweeter than sugar, so use 1/2 - 2/3 cup honey for every cup of sugar in your recipe. Because honey is sweeter than sugar, you might not want to substitute at a 1-1 ratio (even though you can up to one cup).
Antioxidants are crucial in fighting free radicals, which can cause cell damage and contribute to aging and diseases. By opting for honey-sweetened treats, you're ensuring a dose of these beneficial compounds with each bite.
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