Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Vegan Candy Corn Recipe

I've never had this, but I'm seeing it all over the internets. So I thought I'd reproduce the recipe here from The Urban Housewife.

Vegan Candy Corn
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2/3 cup corn syrup (preferably organic, avoid high fructose corn syrup!)
  • 5 tablespoons Earth Balance (or other vegan margarine)
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 1/2 cups powdered sugar
  • 1/3 cup powdered soy milk
  • a pinch of sea salt
  • Red & yellow food coloring
In a large saucepan, bring the sugar, corn syrup, Earth Balance, & vanilla to a boil over high heat.

Reduce the heat to medium & boil the mixture for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. After 5 minutes, remove from heat.

Sift the powdered sugar, powdered soy milk, & salt into medium bowl.

Add the powdered sugar mixture to pan & stir to combine.

Let the mixture stand until slightly warm to touch, about 20 minutes.

Divide the dough into 3 equal pieces.

Consider putting on rubber gloves, so you don't stain your hands. Add several drops of yellow food coloring to one piece of dough & knead food coloring into the dough until smooth and color is even. Repeat using red & yellow food coloring (for orange) with the second piece & leave the last piece white, but knead it until smooth. This isn't an easy task & could take up to 15 minutes!

Roll each piece into ropes of equal length (don't roll too thin or the dough will break) and push the three ropes together to form a long rectangle.

Using sharp knife, cut the ropes into triangles. Some will be white tipped & some will be yellow tipped.

Shape the candy corn as desired!


Thanks again to The Urban Housewife for the recipe. I recommend going to her page for more details.

1 comment:

Foodie with Little Thyme! said...

Where are you?
I miss your post????