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Cotton Candy (Fairy Floss, Candy Floss)

Name: Cotton Candy (Fairy Floss, Candy Floss)
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Yield: 8
Ingredients: 800 grams Chelsea White Sugar; 40 ml Chelsea Golden Syrup; 40 ml water; ¼ tsp salt; 1 tsp raspberry extract; 2 drops pink food colouring

Preparation

15 mins

Bake

15 mins

Difficulty

Easy

Servings

This cotton candy recipe won't look like the cotton candy made commercially, but it's the next best thing if you don't have a machine...

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Ingredients

800 grams Chelsea White Sugar
40 ml Chelsea Golden Syrup
40 ml water
¼ tsp salt
1 tsp raspberry extract
2 drops pink food colouring

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Method

Combine the : Chelsea White Sugar, Chelsea Golden Syrup, water, and salt in a large heavy saucepan over medium heat. Stir the ingredients together until the sugar is melted. Use a pastry brush to wipe down the sides of the pan to keep sugar crystals from forming.

Clip on a candy thermometer and heat the mixture to 160°C. Then, pour the hot liquid into a shallow and heatproof container. Then, add the extract and food colouring that you're using and stir the ingredients well. Though this recipe calls for raspberry extract and pink food colouring, you can use any extract or food colouring you want.

Line baking paper over your work table. You can also spread it on the floor so it will catch any bits of falling sugar that may go over the table.

Spin the sugar. Dip a decapitated whisk into the sugar syrup. Hold it over the pot and allow the sugar to drip back into the container for just a second. Hold it about one foot (30 cm) above the parchment and swing it back and forth so that very thin strands of sugar begin to fall on the paper. Keep going a few more times until you've got a nice looking nest of spun sugar. Know that it won't look like the machine cotton candy you're used to.

Wrap the cotton candy around lollipop sticks. You should do this right away, or the sugar will get brittle and would bend around the sticks.

Serve. This is a dish best enjoyed immediately, but you can also seal it in air-tight containers to keep the moisture away from the cotton candy.