Description
Sugar and dark corn syrup are cooked with vinegar and tempered with baking soda to make a crunchy candy that gets covered in a chocolate coating.
Ingredients
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 cup dark corn syrup
- 1 tablespoon vinegar
- 1 tablespoon baking soda
- 1 pound chocolate confectioners’ coating
Instructions
- Butter a 9×13 inch baking dish.
- In a medium saucepan over medium heat
- combine sugar
- corn syrup and vinegar. Cook
- stirring
- until sugar dissolves. Heat
- without stirring
- to 300 to 310 degrees F (149 to 154 degrees C)
- or until a small amount of syrup dropped into cold water forms hard
- brittle threads.
- Remove from heat and stir in baking soda. Pour into prepared pan; do not spread. (Mixture will not fill pan.) Allow to cool completely.
- In the microwave or over a double boiler
- melt coating chocolate
- stirring frequently until smooth. Break cooled candy into bite-sized pieces and dip into melted candy coating. Let set on waxed paper. Store tightly covered.
Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 30 mins
Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins
Servings: 30