Peppermint Lollipops

These little treats are the new wedding must-haves, but make them yourself and they won't break the bank

• Cooking Time Prep 30 mins
  Cook 20 mins
• Skill Level Moderately easy
• Servings Makes about 40 - easily doubled or tripled

Nutrition per serving

• Kcalories

  -

• Protein

  -

• Carbs

  -

• Fat

  -

• Saturates

  -

• Fibre

  -

• Sugar

  -

• Salt

  -

Ingredients

• 500g granulated sugar
• 1 tsp cream of tartar
• 200ml water
• 2 tsp peppermint essence
• green food colouring
• 40 plastic lollipop sticks (janeasher.co.uk or hobbycraft.co.uk), or wooden skewers cut into short lengths

Directions

1. Put the sugar and cream of tartar into a saucepan with 200ml hot water. Gently heat until the sugar has completely melted, then increase the heat and boil until the mixture reaches the 'hard crack' stage on a sugar thermometer (or a small spoonful dropped into cold water sets hard). Remove from heat immediately and swirl in peppermint essence and enough green colouring to give a pale green colour-start by adding just one drop at a time.
2. Cover a heatproof surface with baking parchment. Using a metal spoon, carefully pour some peppermint syrup onto the paper-roughly ½-1 tbsp per lolly. Push a lolly stick into each. If the syrup becomes too thick, just put the pan back over a gentle heat briefly. But if the syrup is too hot and runny, the shapes won't be as even so set it aside for a minute. Set lollies until hard.
3. To clean equipment after lollipop making drop everything back into the pan, fill with water and bring to the boil.

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