Kool-Aid Candy

Enjoy the explosive flavor of Kool-Aid Candy!

This recipe is a play off of a “Poor Man’s Candy,” except this recipe takes the simple caramel candy to another level. Last night, I realized I had a taste for something different, something sweet. I had Kool-Aid in the cabinet for my Kool-Aid cake recipe and decided to use some of it for some candy too. The best part of making the candy was eating it. This sweet, delicious, hard candy is guaranteed to hit the spot.

Before you start making your candy, be sure to prepare your pan. You will need a sheet pan lined with parchment paper, greased with oil or shortening. Once your pan is prepared set it aside.

Ingredients:

1 C water

¼ C Corn syrup

½ C Water

1 Packet of Kool-Aid

Food Coloring

Using a heavy bottom pot, combine your sugar, corn syrup, and water into the pot. Bring liquid to 295 degrees Fahrenheit otherwise known as the hard crack stage on your candy thermometer. If you don’t have a candy thermometer that’s fine too, you can check the readiness of your candy by dropping some of the liquid into water, if it turns hard and solid, it is ready.

Once you reach the hard crack stage take it off the heat and add your desired Kool-Aid. In this recipe, I used blue-raspberry flavored Kool-Aid. For an intense color add food coloring. Be sure to pour your candy quickly onto prepared pan, if you wait too long it will become too thick to work with. If you want you can use high-heat candy molds to get cool shapes. So go on and try it out. It’s cheap, easy and yummy!