Recipe for lemon candies
Treat your sweet tooth with homemade, old-fashioned lemon candies.
The candies are easy to make and perfect for the candy dish at home. Or pack them in a cellophane bag, tie a nice ribbon around it, and give the candies as a gift to your loved ones.
Isomalt is a sugar substitute that is particularly well-suited for candies and sugar decorations. Isomalt does not crystallize like sugar can, making it easier to work with.
Ingredients
- 200 gram Isomalt
- 5 dashes Lemon Oil
- 2 dashes Fruit color yellow
- 50 gram Powdered Sugar to coat the candies in.
- Oil flavor neutral - to grease the scissors.
Instructions
- For the recipe, you need a pair of scissors, a pair of thin disposable gloves, and a silicone mat. Make sure to have the tools ready before you start, as it is much easier than having to find them when you need them.
- Put the isomalt in a pot and melt it until completely liquid.
- Remove the pot from the heat.
- Put on the disposable gloves and pour the mixture onto the silicone mat. Let it rest for 3 minutes.
- Drip lemon oil and yellow food coloring in the center of the caramel mixture.
- If necessary, let the mixture rest a little until a "skin" forms around the edge.
- Fold the edges of the silicone mat alternately towards the center and out again, so the candy mixture blends into a uniform clump that forms a "skin" again.
- Repeat the process a few more times.
- When the sugar mixture has cooled enough so you can start touching it, "pull" the mixture into a long sausage, which is then folded in the middle.
- Repeat the process until the candy mixture begins to set; it should not harden completely, as it still needs to be possible to cut it into candies.
- Pull the candy mixture into a long, thin sausage about 2 cm in diameter.
- Immediately cut small candies into uniform, slanted pieces.
- Pour powdered sugar into a deep plate.
- Coat the lemon candies in powdered sugar. Make sure they are covered on all sides; otherwise, they will stick together.
- Let the lemon candies cool completely at room temperature.
- Store your candies in an airtight container, such as a jar with a patent lid or another jar with a lid.