Homemade Suckers

It is going to be important to have comfort food in the times of trial/emergency. This is an easy recipe with off the shelf ingredients.

2 cups sugar
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup corn syrup
1 tsp. flavor oil
food color
Molds
Sticks

Combine sugar, water and corn syrup in pan over medium heat. Stir until sugar is dissolved. Cooke to hard crack (300). Remove from heat and add flavor and color. Stir approximately 2 minutes. Pour into molds arrange on a cookie sheet or marble slab. (grease molds and cookie sheet with spray oil/shortening.) Allow to cool Makes approximately 20 suckers. You can also just pour rounds of candy on a greased cookie sheet and roll a sucker in the round until it is coated.

Hints:
**Use your 40% off at Michael to buy sticks, color and flavor
**Walmart also has flavor oil.
**Johnsonflavors.com also has a great variety of flavors and the metal molds (my favorite)
**All in One Cake decorating on 183 also has plastic hard candy molds (be use and use the white plastic molds--clear molds are for chocolate only.)
**Call if you have questions or would like to borrow molds and try it out!