{"id":3181,"date":"2013-03-23T05:16:18","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T19:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/?p=3181"},"modified":"2016-03-17T12:46:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T02:46:53","slug":"rock-candy-recipe-how-to-make-large-sugar-crystals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/rock-candy-recipe-how-to-make-large-sugar-crystals\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Candy Recipe How To Make Large Sugar Crystals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hrecipe\" align=\"center\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/rock-candy-1024x624.jpg\" alt=\"sugar rock candy large crystals\" width=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Large sugar crystals on lollipop sticks, otherwise known as rock candy is a fun experiment to make at home with the kids. \u00a0 You don&#8217;t need many ingredients but you will need some patience as they take a few days to form.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"fn\">Rock Candy Ingredients<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"ingredient\"><span class=\"amount\">3 cups or 648g (22.86 ounces)<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"name\">sugar<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n1 cup or 250 millilitres (8.45 fluid ounces) water<br \/>\nflavouring<br \/>\ncolour<br \/>\nlollipop sticks<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3PsVFV3L (0.79 gallons)-78\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fill a thermos flask with hot water and leave to sit.<\/p>\n<p>Combine all ingredients in a saucepan and heat until a spoonful lifted up looks clear.<br \/>\nEmpty the thermos flask and pour in the sugar solution. Cover the top with a double layer of aluminium foil and then poke your lollipop sticks down into the center.<br \/>\nTry not to disturb the sticks, watching them grow is half the fun so go on have a quick look once a day. And after four or five days you will have some nice chunky sugar crystals.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3182\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_2176-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"rock candy big crystals\" width=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_2176-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_2176-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_2176-60x45.jpg 60w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_2176-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\nYou may have seen other tutorials that tell you to pour the sugar solution into a glass, if you do that the solution cools down quickly forcing the sugar to crystalize fast into lots of little crystals. The image above shows the large crystals made in a thermos at the top and smaller ones made in a glass at the bottom.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"rock candy geodes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/rock-candy-geodes-recipe\/ ?\">You might also like rock candy geodes<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-3174\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_2169-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"how to make rock candy\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_2169-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_2169-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_2169-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"updated\">by Ann Reardon <a href=\"http:\/\/howtocookthat.net\" target=\"_blank\">How To Cook That<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n \n<h4 align=center>My Cookbook<\/h4>\n<p align=center>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/cook-crazy-sweet-creations-cookbook-ann-reardon\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"40%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/hardcover-book-mockup-of-a-woman-reading-3409-el1.png\" alt=\"ann reardon crazy sweet creations cookbook\" title=\"Crazy Sweet Creations Cookbook\" style=\"opacity: 0.8; -moz-opacity: 0.8;\" class=\"fade\" \/><\/a>\n<\/br>\nStores that sell my book listed by country:  \n<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/ARcookbook\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/ARcookbook<\/a>\n<\/br>\nAll recipe quantities in the book are in grams, ounces and cups.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/rock-candy-recipe-how-to-make-large-sugar-crystals\/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/rock-candy-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignleft tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"sugar rock candy large crystals\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/rock-candy-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/rock-candy-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/rock-candy-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/rock-candy-1200x1200-cropped.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" data-wp-pid=\"3183\" \/><\/a><p>Large sugar crystals on lollipop sticks, otherwise known as rock candy is a fun experiment to make at home with the kids. \u00a0 You don&#8217;t need many ingredients but you will need some patience as they take a few days to form. Rock Candy Ingredients 3 cups or 648g (22.86 ounces)\u00a0sugar 1 cup or 250 millilitres (8.45 fluid ounces) water flavouring colour lollipop sticks Fill a thermos flask with hot water and leave to sit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142,145],"tags":[31,952,1308,1315,1314,1307,1313,1312],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3181"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17925,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181\/revisions\/17925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}