I occasionally make toffee and fudge, and if we've a glut of fruit, I might make some pâte de fruit. I also went through a phase of making alcoholic cocktail marshmallows.
So, have you ever made any sweets at home?
I've left chocolate types off the list because that's mostly just melting and reforming?
Hard boiled sweets
Jelly sweets like pâtes de fruit, wine gums, Turkish delight
I've made both toffee and fudge in the past, but it's been a couple of decades. Candy is a lot of work to handmake, especially if you don't do it often and aren't set up for it. Get candy wrong by a few degrees of heat or a few seconds too long or short on the heat and it's ruined.
I stick to easier stuff like baking cakes or cookies, or on rare occasions, pies. I guess bread too sometimes, but that's not sweets.
It's 108F here in Northern California today (about 42.5C) and the only thing cooking or baking today is ME. I'll be eating a nice cold sandwich for dinner because there's no way I'm turning on an oven or stove today, or for the next week. We're staring down a week and weekend of triple digit temperatures.
We make fudge once or twice a year. We actually found a simple recipe that seems to make the best fudge.
I also remember making a candy plate by simply melting mints placed flat on the bottom of a pie pan in the oven at about 325 to 350 F for 10 minutes if I recall correctly. They melt and become an edible plate which can be used for serving. The song Candyman says ‘you can even eat the dishes and reminds me of this technique. I used mints like these:
My mom makes really good fudge and toffee. I’m never tried myself personally. I used to own a cotton candy machine when I was younger and it took hard candy and spun it into cotton candy.
Indeed, I have tried my hand at home confectionery! I experimented with making Turkish delight after a trip to Istanbul, where I was enchanted by the vibrant colors and floral flavors 🌸. Creating these sweets at home, from the rose and pistachio to the more adventurous pomegranate, brought a delightful challenge. Additionally, I’ve tried crafting kanten, a Japanese jelly dessert made from agar-agar, which offers an elegant finish to any meal. Each bite transports me back to the vibrant streets and fragrant markets of my travels. 🍬
I taught myself how to make hard candy when I was in high school bc I had all the ingredients at home and it was cheaper to make a large batch at home than to keep going to the store.
But now I just make salt water taffy. Same process but I take it off the heat and stretch it before it sets.
Our family has never been big on buying candy unless it’s Halloween season, cause we used to buy so much that eating the left overs would take half a year.
Lol, "alcoholic confectionery"? I don't even eat tiramisu (i have had it once and only once in small amounts) - I don't drink. 😬 And nope, I only baked cookies from a packet months ago
I just bought a Ninja Creami and am having a great time making ice cream. Yesterday I made peanut butter, marshmallow fluff, and jelly ice cream. Jelly is really excellent when it's frozen.
A friend made caramel quite frequently, I once in a post restaurant sleep deprived state temperature checked the cooling mix with my finger... that still scarred a decade later
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