Friday, June 11, 2010

coffee candy

Sugar as a vehicle for caffeine...Sometimes on a hot day when I'm sitting still listening to good things everything is just right, so much so that I relax and nod off.  And there's no one to bring me a cup of coffee,
From coffee candy!
and going to get my own is out of the question.  That's why coffee nips were invented.  I tried buying coffee candy here, and did find some one year in a pharmacy!
The last few years I've been curious about making it myself.  I found a recipe here, which makes a "coffee-ish" candy, I wanted more than that, so I added 4 times as much coffee as the recipe calls for, leaving the other ingredients the same.
It took quite a while for it to boil up to the right temperature, the stringy stage when you put a drop of candy into the water.
Tammy helped me with this project, she also took the pictures.




From coffee candy!
From coffee candy!
From coffee candy!
From coffee candy!
I almost forgot to mention that we got nearly 800 gm, I think that's nearly a pound!

8 comments:

Ange said...

I think I need some tonight.. it looks very tempting!!!

alleykat said...

I'll be glad to share with you!

Anonymous said...

It was fun helping Trude with this project... Wish you could have been here too, Angela!

Laura B said...

wow. I'm impressed.

Deena said...

Yum...my mouth is watering! I'll have to give that a try.

Anita said...

You have the neatest ideas! Did you save me a piece? ;)

alleykat said...

you bet! we need you to stay awake too!

alleykat said...

Hi Neil! It kept me awake the first night after I made it, but the real test will be in a couple of weeks!