Honey Lollipops (on Honey Wands!)

This recipe for Honey Lollipops makes use of honey dippers instead of bizarre lollipop sticks. They work double responsibility as candy treats and souvenir favors for weddings, child showers, and extra!

I first had the thought for these honey wand lollipops final Christmas, however months later, I’m simply getting round to creating them. I’d deliberate to provide them as stocking stuffers, however I feel they’re much more applicable for spring. And particularly summer season when honey is abundantly flowing.

DIY brides (or maybe a artful member of their entourage) could discover this a simple and cheap marriage ceremony favor. They’d even be so cute for a bee-themed child bathe (see my Bee-licious social gathering for HGTV.com proper right here). I’ll almost certainly use this batch on my eating room desk, to spruce up place settings and to provide dinner friends a take-home deal with.

Select your honey.

Begin together with your favourite honey. Clover honey, wildflower honey, orange blossom honey – the choices are infinite! In case you ask me, the most effective honey is the free type, and the honey I’m utilizing was gifted from a bee keeper good friend of the household. You’ll want simply 1/2 cup for a batch.

The way to prepare dinner honey into onerous sweet.

Stir collectively the honey, gentle corn syrup, granulated sugar, and water in a big saucepan. To those that recoiled on the point out of corn syrup on this recipe – I’m conscious that everybody is meant to detest the stuff. Nonetheless, it isn’t excessive fructose corn syrup. It’s simply common corn syrup that confectioners and pastry cooks use moderately. (In case you’re , learn Food52’s article Why Corn Syrup Isn’t Evil.) On this recipe it prevents crystallization of the sweet because it cooks and offers the lollipops a protracted shelf life.

Insert a sweet thermometer into the pot, and preserve the substances on a gradual bubble.

Make an ice tub.

Because the sweet bubbles its approach to onerous crack stage (round 302°F on this recipe) make a giant bowl of ice water. In case you don’t have a big sufficient heat-proof bowl, a metallic 13×9-inch cake pan will work, too. In the mean time the sweet reaches temperature, take away it from the warmth and plunge the underside of the pan into the ice tub. This stops the cooking of the sweet combination.

Use an ice dice tray for a sweet mildew.

I discovered this 2-pack of hexagonal ice dice trays that I assumed seemed identical to a honeycomb. Which is ideal to make use of for molding honey lollipops! It labored nicely and held all the cooked sweet. Simply give the cavities a spritz of cooking spray earlier than you pour.

Use a double thickness of heavy-gauge aluminum foil to cowl the tray tightly. Press it down flat so you’ll be able to see every little hexagonal form. Make little X shapes with the tip of a paring knife within the facilities of every form.

Subsequent – time for the honey wands! Use 6-inch honey dippers and insert the ends into every X formed gap. (You’ll find the wands on-line proper right here, 20 items for round $10.)

Now, right here’s the tough half. These wands are high heavy, so they are going to need to wobble to-and fro. Use a strip of painter’s tape throughout the dipper ends to carry them in place. Rigorously regular all of them upright and go away them alone to set. You too can use bizarre lollipop sticks, which can fare higher standing upright on their very own.

Unmold the honey lollipops.

Take away the foil by tearing it away from the lollipop sticks. Just a bit wiggle will free these from their molds.

Honey lollipops Q&A.

You could ask “why not simply use common lollipop molds as an alternative of an ice dice tray?” Effectively. They don’t work with the wands and right here’s why. The honey wand sticks are too thick to put flat within the stick groove in common lollipop molds. I examined numerous sizes of wands, 3-inch to 6-inch, they usually all have the identical stick thickness. In fact, you should utilize common lollipop molds with customary measurement paper sticks with success.

You might also marvel, “why not mildew the sweet on the ‘dipper finish’ of the wand?” You may, however there’s not sufficient room for a lot sweet after the dipper is inserted. You may strive it with a bigger ice dice tray, however it’s a bit cumbersome for having fun with as a lollipop.

These are actually fairly on bizarre lollipop sticks, too! These are smaller than the wands, so I like to recommend packaging them 2 to a bag for gifting.

Preserve the pops in a cool dry place and they’re going to final for a very long time! So long as they’re evaded humidity, they’ll have a protracted shelf life.

There’s no fallacious approach to take pleasure in these lollipops. Have one for a candy deal with, give them as presents, or simply stir one in your sizzling tea.

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