hey everyone it's James from fun foods and
I'm going to show you how to make these everlasting gobstoppers
yes these are real they are gobstoppers they don't last forever but they are a
lot of fun making and they taste great so keep watching I'll show you step by
step how to make these the first thing you want to do is start off with a heavy
bottomed pan and to that we want to add one cup of sugar half a cup of water and
1/4 of a cup of light corn syrup now just take this over to the stove and
heat it up you just want to stir this until all that sugar has dissolved and when your liquid becomes clear you
can stop stirring put in a candy thermometer and we want to wait until it
reaches about 305 degrees just to be sure make sure your cane thermometer is not
touching the bottom but in the liquid so while our liquid is over there heating
up I got to prepare our mold and I got this mold on Amazon I'll put a link in
the description below in case you want to get a hold of one it just has the
right shape I'm looking for now the first thing I want to do is spray it
with some cooking spray not much because it is a silicone mold and then I want to
sprinkle a little bit of Confection confectionery sugar across again you
don't want to fill it up with confectionary sugar you just want a little bit it's
going to help it come out I'm going to put my mold on a baking sheet like this
just to make it easier when it reaches 305 degrees you can pull your candy
thermometer out and turn off the heat now we want to stir in our food coloring this
is blue food coloring that's the first one I'm going to use and we'll put a few
drops in here stir that in after that's mixed in really well next
we can add our flavoring I'm using raspberry for the blue and I'm going to
add a little bit of this flavoring because a little bit goes a long way
mix that in now we'll you take this over to our molds and fill it up so our liquid
is done it reached the temperature I wanted to get to and now we're going to
do is pour it into our molds and I'll just start somewhere near the middle and
pour it in alright so after this has filled up you just want to kind of work it
around a little bit just to try to to even it out some and when you're pretty
happy with it you can just let it sit out until it hardens up so I've let my
candy harden up and I'm about to take it out of the mold but what I forgot to do
right after I poured the candy into the mold was using offset spatula to wipe it
across so that we'll have those clean lines to make it easy for our candy come
out of mold I will do that in future batches because we have to make multiple
batches of this with different colors but for this one I'm still going to try
to get things out of the molds if they don't work I'll have to redo it but what
I think we can do is kind of just go along lines and break these and we kind
of break them a bunch of different ways and they seem to be doing okay so I'm
going to do that and see if we can get them out cleanly they seem to work
pretty good at just doing that and then we can take these after you break them
up we have to clean them up a bit so what I'll do is I'll show you so they'll have the extra little excess
candy on them you just take a butter knife and try to clean it up a bit and
the reason we made extra is because sometimes when you're trying to clean
these up they will break so you just use the other ones this one worked out kind
of good put that there there you go and just do this with all of them and then
after that we'll make our next batch with a different color different flavor
and we'll let that harden up now when you're all done breaking these up and
getting them into little individual pieces you just want to take this set
this aside we'll come back to it later right now I'm going to go ahead and make
other batches the same set process I'm gonna use different colors and different
flavors that's the only difference so we'll set this aside and come back to
later and for the red cherry flavor pour it all in here and this time I am going
to take my offset spatula and just smooth it along this will make it easier for
them to come out when they're done hardening up all in all I made five different
batches each a different color in a different flavor for instance red is
cherry yellow is lemon green is mint blue is raspberry and pink is watermelon
well my last batch is done cooking and what I'm going to do right now is I have
this separate burner here and I'm going to put it on that I want to keep it warm
because we don't want it to firm up yet so we have to kind of work quickly here
so what would do is start with yellow because I seem to have a lot of those
and I'm just going to dip this in here and put a dab right on there and I'm going to
take another color and put it just like that
and we're going to just kind of join these together to make what we're
looking for all right so I messed up a bit when I
had this on the burner I had the burner on high I didn't
realize it and it burned to this nice tar that's not good so right now it has
it's on a burner I made a whole another batch and I put it on here and I don't
have a burner turned on I'll only turn on if I need it so to complete where we
were just at is I'm gonna take here's the one we've been working on you can
kind of use whatever colors you want just kind of spread them out try to get
them opposite sides if you can well now it's off to a taste test
so I'm going to give this a try and see how they taste all together almost like
a fruit punch lots of flavor in there well thanks everyone for watching I hope
you enjoyed watching me make these everlasting gobstoppers this was a lot of
fun making these please share this with any of your friends and family that might enjoy
this I had a great time making this it was a lot of hard work so just a warning
if you want to make these have a whole day set aside because it does take a lot
of work but it was a lot of fun doing this I hope you share this with somebody
and I hope you check out some of the other videos I have off to the side I
think you may enjoy those as well and until then I'll see you guys next week