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Hello Everyone, I hope you're having a good day!
This one took a while to get right, but I am very happy to finally be able to bring you my recipe for the honey candy from Breath of the Wild!
There are a few tricky steps here, so I'll break them down in the recipe, but all you will need to make these are sugar, honey & water, plus flour, tinfoil and some kind of ball for moulding the tin foil around. So, I hope this recipe is accessible to everyone who wants to try it! Using a silicon ball mould would definitely be easier, and if you have one I would recommend using it. But my work around with the tin foil also works well :)
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🧾INGREDIENTS🧾
🔹 50g Granulated Sugar
🔹 30g Water
🔹 20g Honey
◽ Tin Foil
◽ Flour
◽ Round Object
👨🍳METHOD👩🍳
🔸 Ideally you would use a silicon mould for this recipe, but if you don't have any, you can use the tin foil method outlined below.
IMPORTANT: The sugar syrup will be about 150°C when you pour it, so ensure that if you decide to use a different method, that your mould won't melt at this temperature. My polycarbonate mould will melt at 110°C so I couldn't use it for this recipe and had to improvise.
🔸 Prepare your tin foil moulds by cutting out squares of foil and pressing them around a round object. I doubled my foil over to make the moulds a bit stronger.
🔸 Fill a container with flour and place the moulds into it. This will stabilise the moulds and prevent them from falling over when we fill them later on.
🔸 Add the sugar and water to a microwave safe GLASS container, then heat in 30 second bursts until lightly golden brown or about 150°C/302°F. (*The syrup will reach around 150°C so glass is best as plastic will melt )
🔸 Test the syrup using the water test shown in the video. To do this, drop a small amount of syrup into a cup of water, allow it to cool, then assess the consistency of the drop. It should be hard and snap when you try to deform it. If it bends, heat your syrup some more, and repeat the test until it snaps.
🔸 Add the honey into the sugar. It will bubble, but don't worry, this is just the water in the honey boiling off. Now reheat the syrup for about 30 seconds in the microwave and test again for the snap. Continue heating and testing until it snaps, but it should be ready after the first heat.
WHY ADD THE HONEY LATER? - In my testing the honey burns if you add it from the start. I imagine that this is because the other compounds in the honey (Not the water or sugar) burn if heated for too long. By adding it in after we have already brought the bulk of the sugar to the hard crack stage, we are limiting the honey's exposure to the heat, which prevents it from burning🥳🍯
🔸 As soon as your syrup passes the water test, start to pour it into the moulds. They shouldn't take too long to set, but I would leave it at least 30 minutes, to ensure they are fully set before demoulding them.
🔸 If you would like to make round sweets, you can glue two hemispheres together by brushing one half with a little bit of water, then pressing a second sweet on top of it.
🔸 Finally, wrap the sweets in parchment paper and enjoy!
IMPORTANT: Sugar is a hygroscopic material, which means that it will suck in moisture from the air. Because of this, the candies will quickly start to become sticky if not stored in an airtight container. But even in the container, they will eventually get a bit sticky. So my advice is to eat them as fast as possible😋 But that won't be too hard, because they taste gooooooood🍯
Music
Song: Song of Storms LoFi Remix
Produced by Mikel
Mastered by Dj CUTMAN
Label: GameChops
Remix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PqZrMih3ws&ab_channel=GameChops
License: Creative Commons Attribution License
Timestamps
0:00 - Preview
0:11 - Introduction
0:18 - The Recipe
1:40 - Demoulding and Presentation
2:31 - Final Thoughts
2:43 - Outro |