DIY Rock Candy

Here is what you'll need!

Rock Candy

MATERIALS
Cake pop stick
1 cup water
2-3 cups of sugar
1 tablespoon food coloring
Mason jar
Clothespin

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Dip a cake pop stick water, then dip into sugar. Set aside to dry, until the sugar has hardened on the cake pop stick.
2. In a medium-sized pot, heat 1 cup of water and bring to a simmer.
3. Slowly incorporate 2-3 cups of sugar into the hot water. Add sugar in about half a cup at a time until sugar can no longer dissolve in the water. Mix the solution consistently to ensure the sugar is dissolving.
4. Add 1 tablespoon of food coloring to add color.
5. Carefully pour the sugar mixture into a mason jar.
6. Insert the dried sugar coated cake pop stick into the sugar solution. Make sure the stick does not not touch the bottom of the mason jar.
7. Use a clothespin to hold the cake pop stick in place.
8. Seat aside and avoid mixing for 3-5 days, to get the sugar crystals grow.
9. Remove the cake pop stick from the mixture to reveal the sugar crystal.
10. Allow the sugar crystal to hang dry from a mason jar.
11. Once dried, enjoy as a lollipop, in drinks or as a decoration.

MUSIC
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[ironfae]

Instead of food dye, I mix in single packets of Kool-Aid powder. They come out colored AND flavored. 👍

[amalzuhair]

That seems more than a tablespoon of food colouring

[Mamaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

"Slowly incorporate."

**dumps whole bowl in**

[vivienne_]

Thanks for the recipe! I just made this now I gotta wait those 3-5 days. Wish me luck that they turned out!

[bleach]

at 1:00 its so unsatisfying bc its blue before green ugh

[Zepherx]

I just need to know this so I can make the infinity stones

[veronicacrowell]

Just tried it! Followed it step by step. AWESOME!

[mamandu]

Fun tip: mix in some kool aid powder and you get both a strong color and a flavored rock candy!

[kavitham]

Yours is best amongst all other videos

[charliehorse]

Guys, if the recipe doesn't work, I think you're supposed to wet the skewers with the sugar water you boil, not just regular water. You're supposed to boil the water and the sugar first, then you take the skewers and you wet them in the boiled sugar water and *then* you coat them in sugar. That's what I remember from an old recipe I learned a few years ago at least.

[kimberlycampbell]

Thanks for the tip! Great video. Can't wait to make this myself 🔥

[Vigrabo]

Tip let it cool before adding the stick if you don’t the sugar will fall off

[sydnimorgan]

I'm eating rock candy while watching this video

[jjsoupsworth]

_how do you expect me to wait three to five days for this_

[GabyGibson]

I'm going to do this. It kind of reminds me of the science experiment that you would do for science projects in school to simulate cave formations

[AWESOME-fjos]

The red sugar water looked like blood but when the rock candy came out it was so beautiful omgggg

[AlineSzpaller]

Can I reuse that same water + sugar + dye to another candy rock stick? Or can you only do it once? It seems to me that all the material left in the pot is discarded afterwards. It seems to me very wasteful.

[taliahope]

this one has a better time than another one I watched, which was 2 weeks!

[callumfriends]

What do you do with the left over syrup?

[aa_torii]

Can u use bbq stick cuz i dont have a cake pop stick