🍭 Old-Fashioned Hard Candy Recipe 🕒 Time: 45 minutes 🍬 Yield: About 1½ pounds of candy 🧂 Ingredients 2 cups granulated sugar ⅔ cup light corn syrup ¾ cup water 1 teaspoon flavored extract (peppermint, cinnamon, cherry, etc.) Food coloring (as desired) Powdered sugar (for dusting, optional) 🍳 Instructions Prepare your area Lightly grease a cookie sheet or line it with parchment paper. If you want to make multiple flavors, prepare small heatproof bowls for separating the mixture later. Boil t

There are candy flavors and then there are candy flavors. Nobody thinks, for instance that blue raspberry candy actually tastes like raspberries. It’s just an ersatz sweet and tangy flavor profile that people like. That’s not good enough for the real life Willy Wonkas at @loftypursuits candy shop. When they set out to make a blueberry pie hard candy you’d better believe you’re going to get the acidity of the blueberries AND the buttery, flaky crust. Greg Cohen, the owner of Lofty Pursuits descri