Prepare yourself or your child delicious lollipops using one of the recipes in the article.

All the kids are absolutely delighted with the lollipops. There are a great many of them on sale now. Choose whatever taste, color, shape, size you want! The composition and benefits of these sweets remain a big question, because they usually contain a lot of chemical additives and cheap dyes. Another thing is homemade caramels made from sugar, such as our grandmothers’ deli. In the form of cockerels, fish and stars. What prevents us from making delicious and completely natural lollipops using one of the recipes from the article?

How to make homemade lollipops in molds?

A beautiful candy shape is half the success. Would a round one surprise children now? Therefore, it is necessary:

• look through cabinets and pantries to find a USSR-era metal mold
• go to the market, supermarket, search on the Internet for modern forms, also metal or silicone

Metal mold for lollipops.

IMPORTANT: You can order the original mold for caramel on a stick on the website of the Chinese trading platform Aliexpress in this section of the catalog. Depending on the number of cells, size, it will cost you 150-500 rubles. To save money, choose stores with free shipping.

Molds for lollipops in the form of cartoon characters from Aliexpress.

Molds for lollipops in the shape of flowers from Aliexpress.

Children's molds for lollipops from Aliexpress.

“Grandma’s” recipe for lollipops is very simple; it doesn’t require anything other than sugar, a couple of grains of citric acid and water. If you want to add additional ingredients to the candies, we will teach you how to do this later. Now take:

• granulated sugar – 4 tbsp. spoons
• water - 1 tbsp. spoon
• citric acid - a couple of grains

Caramel - a cockerel on a stick - is every child's favorite treat.

1. Increase the amount of ingredients proportionally depending on how many candies you want to get.
2. Pour water into a saucepan and add sugar. Take a small saucepan with a thin bottom, preferably enameled.
3. Boil the thick syrup until it becomes clear. Whether to stir the syrup all the time or not is a moot point.
4. The more you stir, the better the sugar dissolves. But when stirring, air bubbles form in the syrup, and your caramels will then be rough. But some people like just the kind that scratches the tongue.
5. The syrup will be ready when a drop of it begins to instantly solidify in cold water.
6. Add citric acid to the hot syrup.
7. Grease the metal molds with a little oil. There is no need to do this with silicone ones.
8. Pour the syrup into the molds.
9. Insert sticks into the lollipops.
10. Let the candies harden.

Lollipops in molds: step 1.

Lollipops in molds: step 2.

Lollipops in molds: step 3.

Lollipops in molds: step 4.

Lollipops in molds: step 5.

Lollipops in molds.

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How to make homemade lollipops without molds?

You can make lollipops using the same recipe, even if you don’t have molds for them.
You can pour in the boiled thick syrup:

• in the box
• in the cells of boxes of chocolates
• in foil
• in the form of droplets on a silicone mat or parchment

IMPORTANT: By the way, metal bases from tea candles can be used as molds for lollypops. You just need to cut a groove for the stick in them.

How many calories are in homemade candy?

The energy value of 100 g of caramel candy on a stick made from sugar and water is about 310 kcal. If you use additional ingredients, the calorie content of the treat increases.

Cough lozenges at home: recipe. Cough drops with ginger and honey

In the autumn-winter period, tablets, lozenges and cough lozenges are literally swept off the shelves of pharmacies, extinguishing the nasty symptom of a cold and soothing a sore throat. Many of them help doubtfully, but they contain 100% chemicals. To help yourself and your children, you can make cough drops yourself.

IMPORTANT: These lollipops contain natural ingredients, but, unfortunately, they are not suitable for everyone. Honey, ginger, lemon juice, and mint are quite strong allergens. Before consuming them, you need to make sure that the body does not have a negative reaction.

Take:

• 100 ml water (strong green tea or hibiscus tea, as some recipes recommend)
• granulated sugar - 1.5 cups
• juice of 0.5 lemon
• honey - 2 tbsp. spoons
• ginger root – 2 cm
• ground turmeric, essential oils of eucalyptus and mint - optional in small quantities

1. First of all, you need to pour boiling water or brewed tea over the grated ginger root, add herbs and spices, essential oils to it, and leave for half an hour.
2. Next, cook the caramel by adding sugar to the strained infusion. Stir all the time so that the sugar does not burn.
3. When the syrup is thick, transparent and homogeneous, it will instantly solidify under cold water, remove the saucepan from the heat. Carefully and quickly enough, before the syrup has cooled, add honey and lemon juice into it.
4. Place a sheet of parchment paper on the table. Gently drop droplets of syrup with a teaspoon until they harden and turn into candy. For children, you can make cough drops on sticks.
5. If you store sweets in a jar or vase, sprinkle them with powdered sugar, otherwise they will stick together.

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Lollipops, like in childhood: recipe

To get caramel sticks with a berry or fruit flavor, cook them from jam or jam.
Take 300 g of homogeneous jam, add more sugar if necessary, and cook until it thickens. Make these sweets with or without molds.

IMPORTANT: Lollipops according to the recipe as in childhood can be cooked not with water, but with fruit juice. Just don't buy store bought!

Milk lollipops: recipe

Make a delicate milk caramel for the kids. Take:

• granulated sugar – 200 g
• milk – 100 ml
• vanillin - on the tip of a knife

1. As in the recipe above, cook the caramel by dissolving the sugar in the milk.
2. Add vanillin to the prepared syrup before pouring it into molds.
3. If you want to get something like toffee rather than caramels, add butter to the syrup.

Coffee lollipops: recipe

Cocoa powder or coffee added to caramels on a stick will make their taste less cloying. Take:

• sugar – 1 glass
• cocoa – 1 dessert spoon (or 1 teaspoon of instant coffee)
• honey – 1 teaspoon
• water – 75 ml

Boil the syrup from sugar, water, coffee or cocoa in the same way as in the classic candy recipe.

Honey lollipops: recipe

To make delicious honey candies, it is enough to add one more ingredient to the classic recipe - a beekeeping product in the amount of 2 tbsp. spoons

There is also a more original recipe - chocolate caramel with honey.
Take:

• granulated sugar – 100 g
• honey – 100 g
• confectionery chocolate, black or milk - 90 g (bar)

You need to mix chocolate melted in a water bath with sugar and honey, cook this mixture until it thickens. Lollipops that have not yet completely hardened can be rolled in nut crumbs.

Peppermint lollipops: recipe

To make mint candies, you need to purchase mint essence. When you boil the syrup according to the classic recipe, add 4-5 drops of this essence to it. Sweets on sticks will pleasantly cool your mouth and freshen your breath.

Fruit lollipops: recipe

To make caramels on a stick taste like fruit:

• cook them in juice or jam
• add fruit essence to syrup

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Colored lollipops: recipe

Candies made from water and sugar have a pleasant amber color. You can replace it with additional ingredients:

• natural dyes in the form of fruit and berry juice (blackberries, black currants, cranberries)
• food colorings used for making confectionery products

Burnt sugar lollipops: recipe

Candies made from burnt sugar help with coughs due to acute respiratory viral infections and influenza, pharyngitis, tracheitis, bronchitis, and other diseases of the respiratory system. This tasty medicine is loved by children. Burnt sugar is obtained by caramelizing it.

IMPORTANT: Try not to overcook the caramel. The darker it gets, the more bitter it will taste.

Lollipops - New Year's caramel sticks: recipe

New Year's candies, two-color canes, are prepared in two ways - from caramel or mastic.

Lollipops - New Year's caramel sticks.

The first one is very difficult, you can use it only after mastering the technology of stretching caramel. In addition, it will need to be dyed and twisted into pigtails.
Mastic is much easier to manage. You can prepare the confectionery raw materials yourself or buy them ready-made in the store.

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Who among us did not love lollipops in the shape of a cockerel, a squirrel, a star, and so on as a child? Many of us tried to cook them ourselves as children; in fact, everything is very simple.

It's safe to say that these are real childhood sweets for many. And one more thing can be said with confidence that those lollipops cannot compare with modern lollipops and the like that are produced now, with various chemicals, dyes and additives.

Now I’ll quickly tell you and remind you of a couple of very simple recipes that you can use to make delicious candies at home.

CANDIES ON A STICK.

To prepare we will need:

Water – 8-9 tablespoons.
Granulated sugar – 9 tablespoons.
A pinch of citric acid or one tablespoon of wine vinegar.
Toothpicks, skewers or wooden sticks of suitable size.
Form for hardening (if not, at the end I’ll tell you how you can do without it).

Cooking process:

In fact, I repeat, everything is very simple: take a small saucepan, pour water into it, add sugar, a pinch of citric acid or wine vinegar, put it on low heat and cook, stirring occasionally (the cooking process takes 15-20 minutes).

Boil our mixture to a caramel color (the main thing is not to overcook it). We check readiness with a drop of water, drop a cold drop of water into the mixture, if it has hardened, our caramel is ready.

Then pour the caramel into the molds, let it cool a little and thicken, insert the sticks and put the caramel in the refrigerator until it hardens completely.

1. Before hardening, the molds should be slightly greased with vegetable oil.
2. If you don’t have molds, we used tablespoons when we were kids, see photo below.
3. Instead of molds, you can use any other suitable molds, for example, molds in which chocolates are stored in a box, or silicone baking molds (the main thing is that they can withstand the temperature of hot syrup).
4. You can also use lemon juice instead of vinegar.
5. After boiling, stir well for a few more minutes, and very slowly pour the caramel into the molds so that fewer voids and pores form.

Recipe 2.

Six tablespoons of sugar.
Four tablespoons of cream, or homemade full-fat sour cream.

Recipe 3.

Five tablespoons of sugar.
Three tablespoons of milk.
One teaspoon of cocoa.
One teaspoon of butter.

The cooking process is identical to that described above. Maybe you have your own recipes for lollipops, share them in the comments, I think readers will be interested.

Of course, in childhood we did not have as many sweets as our children and grandchildren now have. But we will forever remember them for their taste and we are unlikely to forget them. For example, sherbet, or everyone’s favorite toffee candy, but we have recipes for these childhood desserts on the blog and you can read them below.

FAVORITE CHILDHOOD TREAT - SHERBET WITH PEANUTS.

Lollipop is a wonderful sweet, the main composition of which includes sugar, water and a little citric acid and flavorings. The delicacy is easy to make at home. This candy has been known to us for more than five hundred years. The forms and taste qualities of sweets can be very diverse. Inside the candy there may be a tasty filling in the form of jelly, caramel or chewing gum. This unique and at the same time popular sweet is loved by adults and children. It lifts your spirits and gives you a feeling of celebration. You can prepare them for any holiday (for example, Valentine's Day).

This caramel will not put a dent in your wallet, since the ingredients included in it are quite affordable. How to make homemade lollipops without molds using them? There are certain subtleties in preparing the delicacy, which you will learn about in detail from the recipes below. There are various DIY options, for example, adding honey and even alcohol.

How to make lollipops at home without molds

How to make delicious candy for kids at home without much effort, making your day festive? To prepare the dessert you will need 200 grams of sugar, seven tablespoons of water and one teaspoon of lemon juice or vinegar, wooden sticks and spoons. The cooking process is simple:

• Take a stainless steel saucepan and pour sugar into it.
• Add seven tablespoons of water to the saucepan with sugar. There is one condition - the water should slightly cover the ingredients.
• Add a teaspoon of lemon juice to the resulting mass. Thanks to the acid, our delicacy will cook faster. If you wish, you can do without it.
• Place the saucepan on low heat. Remember the condition - you need to stir the composition for five minutes. The sugar crystals should completely dissolve.
• Has the mass turned brown? Great. Remove it from the heat. And let it sit for another five minutes. Pour into the shape you like (any) or into spoons and insert the sticks. You can use ice cube trays.

If everything is done correctly, your fragrant homemade candy will acquire a beautiful amber hue. Now you know how to make homemade candy without molds. By the way, by adding any juice (apple, grape, orange) instead of water, you will get a fruity taste, a colorful tint and a pleasant aroma. Anyone who prepares this sweet delicacy will be delighted.

How to make delicious lollipops

Delicious and healthy honey lollipops are an original, tasty homemade delicacy that will not only charge you with positive energy, but also help get rid of a cough. It's easy to do. We will need 300 grams of natural honey, half a teaspoon of ginger and a little sugar if desired. The recipe is as follows:

• Pour honey into a saucepan. Add ground ginger to it. This composition must be simmered over low heat for two hours. Don't forget to stir from time to time.
• After two hours we check readiness. Take a small drop of the resulting caramel and place it on a saucer. If the drop has frozen, then the product is ready. Pour it into silicone molds or any other. You can use small jars or bottle caps as a form. It will harden within a few hours in the refrigerator.

Homemade lollipops like before

If you want something new and unusual, then try making your own homemade cockerel from jam. We need 300 grams of any favorite jam (apple, apricot, pear), a pinch of chopped nuts and a little ground cloves, a mold. To prepare the candy, combine all the above ingredients. Cook the resulting mass until thickened (5-10 minutes). Place it in a special cockerel mold by inserting sticks. The dessert will harden in the refrigerator within a few minutes. We take it out of the mold and roll it in sugar, so it will look more impressive.

Sugar and honey lollipops

Lollipops made from sugar and honey are very useful. To prepare such a delicacy, mix 25 grams of honey with 400 grams of sugar, adding butter, 5 tablespoons of boiled water, and currant syrup to taste. Cook the resulting mass for 5-7 minutes over low heat. Pour the mixture into any form. Want a colorful dessert? Just add coloring.

Candies that are boiled until hard and attached to a stick are usually called lollipops. They are completely different. The method of preparing candies is almost the same, but adding different additives to the classic recipe, they differ in taste, shape and size.

The most popular of them are lollipops. They have a sweet taste and can vary in color. Preparation does not take much time, and the number of ingredients is minimal and simple.

Mold for lollipops: how to choose and where to buy?

There are special molds for making lollipops. In Soviet times, they could often be seen on sale, but even now you can find them if you want. Stores even sell kits for making lollipops. These sets include forms.

They are usually aluminum, consisting of two platforms. Inside each mold there are various figures - hares, penguins, cockerels, fish and bears. Makes enough for six lollipops.

There are molds for two figures. These are usually large cockerels. There are a lot of options. Also, to make lollipops you will need clamps for fastening the molds and sticks.

In order to prepare lollipops, molds made from food-grade silicone are also used. But it is still better to give preference to aluminum products.

How to make molds with your own hands

If you don’t have a store-bought one, you can always make a mold for making candy with your own hands. It’s enough to turn on your imagination and look around. You can use regular shot glasses or cookie cutters. Anything that has a beautiful shape and high sides is quite suitable for making sweets.

You can simply place the finished syrup on parchment or a silicone mat. At the same time, you can give the treat absolutely any shape.

Classic recipe

The classic recipe is considered the simplest among other cooking recipes. Even a child can make these lollipops. The number of ingredients is minimal. You just need to make sure that the syrup is prepared correctly.

To prepare delicious products, you need to mix water, sugar and vinegar and put on fire.

Bring the resulting mixture to a boil, stirring constantly.

Next, cook the syrup over very low heat until golden brown. It is necessary to periodically check its readiness. You need to drip the syrup into a cup of water. If it hardens quickly in water, then it's time to pour it into molds.

Pour the syrup into the prepared mold and insert the sticks into the holes of the mold.

Place the closed pan under cold water. Only when it has cooled down can you take out the sweets.

Homemade honey lollipops

Honey lollipops have very beneficial properties. After all, honey is the best medicine for any disease. Such treats will help your body with any colds. The cooking method is also very simple. The only difference is that honey is added to the mixture.

Ingredients:

• honey – 25 gr.;
• sugar – 400 gr.;
• butter – 100 gr.;
• water – 20 g;
• vegetable oil for greasing the mold.

Mix honey, sugar, water and cook over low heat until the syrup begins to form a string. Then add honey, butter to the resulting mass and cook a little more.

Next, check the readiness by dripping the syrup into a cup of cold water. The finished syrup hardens very quickly. Pour it into the prepared form. Don't forget to stick the sticks into the holes of the mold. After it has cooled, you can take out the delicious candies on a stick.

Before pouring the syrup into the mold, be sure to grease it with oil so that it does not stick to it.

Milk chocolate candies on a stick

Lollipops can be very diverse. Lollipops with the addition of milk and chocolate have a unique taste. This is a very tasty treat for children.

Ingredients:

• sugar – 2 tbsp;
• honey – 1 tbsp;
• cocoa – 2 tbsp;
• water – 5 tbsp;
• butter – 2 tbsp.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Calorie content: 100 gr. – 280 kcal.

Mix all ingredients. Heat the prepared mixture over low heat. The syrup must be stirred throughout the cooking process to avoid burning.

You need to insert sticks into the holes in the mold. Allow to cool and then you can remove the products.

How to make fruit lollipops

The method of preparing fruit candies is no different from preparing other similar candies. The only difference is in the ingredients. Depending on what fruit filling is added to the syrup, the taste of the lollipops will depend. You can use any fruit juice as a fruit filling. With a wide variety of juices, you can get completely different lollipops.

Ingredients:

• freshly squeezed juice – 0.5 cups;
• sugar – 80 gr.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Calorie content: 100 gr. – 280 kcal.

Mix juice and sugar in a deep saucepan and cook over low heat. When the syrup begins to change color and the droplets of syrup quickly harden, it must be poured into the mold. You need to insert sticks into the holes of the mold. After it has cooled down, you can remove the candies.

Making creamy sweets

To make the candies unusual, you can make creamy lollipops. They have a special mild taste.

Ingredients:

• sugar - 200 gr.;
• milk - 0.5 cups;
• butter -50 gr.;
• vanillin.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Calorie content: 100 gr. – 280 kcal.

Mix sugar, milk and butter. Bring to a boil over low heat. Continue cooking the syrup, stirring constantly. When the color turns caramel, you need to check it for readiness.

You need to drop the syrup into cold water. If the drop hardens quickly, then it is ready. Pour the finished syrup into molds. We insert sticks into the holes. After the molds have cooled, you can remove the candies.

There are some important secrets to making lollipops.

The syrup should be cooked over very low heat - this is a very important condition when preparing candy. When melting sugar, the mixture must be stirred constantly so that it does not burn.

If it is necessary to add vinegar to the syrup, then this must be done very carefully - a chemical reaction very often occurs. To prevent it from sticking to the mold, it must be lubricated with oil.

To make the syrup harden faster, you need to add citric acid or lemon juice.

You need to stick the sticks in when the syrup starts to harden a little, and you need to screw each stick in, as it were. After cooking, the pan must be soaked in water, because once the syrup hardens, it is very difficult to wash off.

If the candies are stuck to the mold, then it must be immersed in hot water and then try to remove the products.

In order for the syrup to harden in the form, it does not need to be placed in the refrigerator, because the candies will harden unevenly.

If you don't have any molds, you can use a baking sheet and parchment paper. It is necessary to distribute the syrup on parchment paper and adjust the shape. You get such different flat cakes.

My granddaughter is growing up, and, as usual, she has begun to show interest in candies, chocolates and other children’s delights. I was recently visiting and asked my grandfather: “Will you buy me Chupa Chups?”

I immediately saw before my eyes a little boy at a party with a huge candy cane and a blue-red tongue and lips... I don’t want such sweets for my granddaughter!

It’s difficult to refuse a child, but you can still regulate the process, and make the lollipops, beloved by all children for many centuries, yourself.

After rummaging in the far corners of the closet, I pulled out the mold that I bought back in the 80s of the last century and said that we would make it better than any Chupa Chups.

In general, lollipops are very simple!

Minimal ingredients: 4 tbsp. spoons of sugar, 1.5 tbsp. spoons of any fruit or berry juice without pulp (you can freshly squeezed) or, if there is no juice, 1 tbsp. spoon of water and 1 teaspoon of lemon juice, sugar for culinary products (optional). All!

Put it on gas and, stirring constantly, let the mixture boil, reduce the heat to moderate and continue stirring.

As soon as the sugar mass acquires a caramel color with a reddish tint, you can pour the mass into the mold. The degree of color change is very important, if the color is straw, then the mass may stick to the mold, if it is red-brown, it will taste bitter, it is the reddish-caramel color that is important to us, it will darken a little more when poured.

Our mold is pre-lubricated with a thin layer of oil and assembled. Pour the candy mixture into the holes and insert the sticks. As chopsticks, you can use toothpicks with sharp ends cut off, or you can also split a bamboo Chinese stick (they split well with a smooth cut without burrs).

When the mold has cooled (you can even hold it under cold water to speed it up), open it and take out the lollipops.

You can wrap the lollipops in plastic wrap and give them to the child whenever the parents deem it possible.

What to do if there is no form? Show creativity! We take a silicone mold or a frying pan with a non-stick coating and lightly grease it with oil. For beauty, you can sprinkle sugar decorations for cakes in the mold.

We make the candy mass in the same way. When it’s ready, pour a free-form puddle, put a stick in the “puddle,” submerge it, sprinkle some fine sugar on top and wait for the candy to harden. They are easily removed from the silicone mold.

Homemade candies are natural, and although sugar, of course, is not such a healthy product, at least you can protect your child from all sorts of harmful dyes and flavor enhancers.

When the candies were ready, the adults couldn't resist either, resulting in the whole family sitting around licking the lollipops.

Now the granddaughter no longer remembers Chupa Chups; she likes to watch the preparation of squirrels, fish and holiday trees, which she saw in puddles of candy.

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