Easy Homemande Taffy

Taffy

            Taffy is so much fun to make!  My family just made some last night with one of our grandmas.  We made Blue Peppermint,  Yellow Lemon, and Vanilla-Peanut Butter taffies. You can use your creativity to make any other flavors your family may like.  Please tell me how your taffies turned out, have fun! 

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~Taffy Recipe~

3/4 C. sugar

1/3 C. water

1/3 C. corn syrup

1 T white distilled vinegar

 use a small amount of any flavor of extract and food coloring if desired
makes about 25-30 taffy pieces depending on how big you cut the pieces

Combine the sugar, water and corn syrup together before turning on the stove.

Then stir.

This is what it should look like when it is almost at 200* according to the candy thermometer.

From about 200* to 250* it normally climbs pretty slowly.  This is about 225*.  

At 250*, you have to watch the temperature carefully because it climbs quickly from there!  When the thermometer gets up to 270*, turn off the burner, remove from heat, and add in the vinegar.  Pour in to greased pan and let cool for about 15 minutes or until cool enough to handle.  

This is the taffy right out of the cooling pan. If you are going to add food coloring, add the color now.

When you first start pulling the taffy should look translucent.

As you continue to pull, it becomes more opaque, and gets harder to pull.

Roll out the taffy and cut into about one inch pieces, you can cut them bigger or smaller to your liking.  We placed small chunks of peanut butter in the center of the vanilla taffy!  Yum!

This is the blue peppermint taffy in the process of being pulled.

This is the pieces ready to be wrapped, you can roll the pieces or just keep them the way they are when you cut them, either wayit works.

to wrap the taffy, just cut squares of waxing paper, put the taffy on the square, roll, then twist on side one way and the other side the opposite way you twisted the first side, that way the twist will stay.
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 Here are all the flavors of taffy wrapped and ready to eat!

Yellow Lemon Taffy

Vanilla-Peanut Butter Taffy

the finished Blue Peppermint Taffy