How To Make Homemade
ROCK CANDY
With Christina Tosi
Milk Bar founder Christina Tosi has an easy recipe to make rock candy. All you’ll need is a few simple ingredients and a Ball canning jar!
To make 6-8 gemlike snacks, first, you’ll need to get some sticks for dipping. Dip sticks halfway in water, roll in sugar, and set aside.
In a saucepan, bring the 1 1⁄2 cups water and 4 cups sugar to boil to dissolve sugar. Cool completely.
Now, some fun! With some food coloring and your choice of extract, color and flavor the sugar water in as many ways as you please!
Pour your mixture into a clean 16 oz. Ball rand home canning jar, filling about 2⁄3 of the way full. Suspend the sugar sticks in the sugar liquid one inch from the bottom of the glass.
Cover with a paper towel or a loose piece of plastic and leave in a space out of the way, unfettered for 5-10 days. Yes, this takes patience!
Your sugar crystals will form, grow in size & climb up your sticks over time. Once your rock candy has achieved your ideal size/shape, use a small teaspoon to crack them from the crystallized surface of the glasses.