The following are some typical hard candy recipes that could be used for manufacturing lollipops. These recipes are intended to be used as a guideline and no guarantee of effectiveness are provided. The recipes would be typical of one used to make lollipops on either a flat lollipop or ball lollipop production line.
Clear Hard Candy Lollipop
Ingredients:
- 30 parts water
- 66 parts white granulated sugar
- 34 parts glucose syrup
- Tartaric or citric acid, to taste
- Preferred flavouring
Instructions
- In a cooker, combine the water, sugar, and glucose syrup.
- Cook this mixture until it reaches approximately 129-135°C. The exact temperature will depend on your cooker’s efficiency.
- Once cooked, transfer the mixture onto a candy cooling table.
- During the cooling process, add tartaric or citric acid to taste, along with your preferred flavouring.
- As soon as the mixture has cooled and firmed up enough you can put into a batch roller and run through the ball lollipop production line.
Hard Candy Lollipop with Fat and Milk
Ingredients
- 15 parts water
- 50 parts white granulated sugar
- 40 parts glucose syrup
- 3 parts shredded cocoa butter (or a substitute)
- 8 parts sweetened condensed milk
- 0.06 parts lecithin
- Preferred flavouring
Instructions
- Combine the water, sugar, and glucose syrup and cook until the mixture reaches 126°C.
- Continue to cook the mixture, while adding in the cocoa butter (or substitute), sweetened condensed milk, and lecithin. Keep stirring while these ingredients are added.
- Keep cooking until the mixture reaches approximately 140°C, then vacuumise.
- Transfer the mixture onto a cooling table and allow it to temper.
- Add your preferred flavouring, then pull the mixture over a pulling machine to shape it.
- Once the batch is sufficiently firm you can load into the batch roller ready to make lollipops.
Hard Candy Lollipop with Fat, Milk, and Cocoa
Instructions
- Follow the steps for the Hard Candy Lollipop with Fat and Milk until you reach the cooling table stage.
- Divide the batch into two halves.
- In one half, add a brown chocolate coloring and enough cocoa powder to suit your taste.
- Pull both halves on a pulling machine, then join them together and lay side by side.
- Once sufficiently firm load into the batch roller ready to make lollipops.
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