Ingredients: Cave Carrot, Sugar, Milk
Item Description: This should keep your energy up.
Ayo this ones weird, and my track record with candy is not good because I dont want to actually make it proper because its a lot of work and specialised equipment and training and that. But i did see some recipe for candied grapes in boiled sweets that im gonna see what happens if i replicate with.... carrots...?
For "cave carrot" I wanted to get some heritage/rainbow carrots to be a bit more fun but they didnt have any, so ive just got a carrot and a parsnip.
Ok so we are going to make like lollipops, see, with the carrots, and dip them in caramel and then coat with them crushed up rainbow boiled sweets.. you with me? No? Come on.
Ok so the ratio of these sweets is... not amazing either. Doesnt feel like theres a point in doing orange on orange, so i'll just crush 3-4 each of the other colours. Oh also, the only rainbow boiled sweets I managed to find were sherbet filled ones. That'll have to do, probably quite nice actually.
This looks cool! this is happening right? This is something?
Ok since the recipe has sugar in milk, ive got a heap of sugar, a splash of milk and some syrup to hopefully, i dunno, stabilise it?
To make caramel I think it needs to get up to about 300f, so ive finally cracked out this food thermometer someone got me for xmas the other year. Handy! Also by the time it got up to like 250f it started foaming up so i dunno, this isnt pro quality, maybe its about a good time to start dipping.
OK yeah I dont know. I guess I didnt wanna waste a lot off food, but making a small batch makes it all extra hard to try and apply things to things. Also for some reason I thought the vegetables would be able to cook while i was dipping them, but in reality you dont wanna just hang around deep frying stuff in hot sugar... Also the caramel is failing to stick to the veg as it cools... so its just getting all kind of messy in here. I also gave up on making them different colours and tried to sprinkle a rainbow over them all. Yeah, i've made a mess. I also foolishly decided to try and get this done before going to a party so I ended up rushing it.
This is stupid and unweildy and im never gonna make it again.
But................... ok im gonna say it.... the toffee and fruity sherbet actually goes REALLY WELL with the raw carrot and parsnip. I think there's a real potential in carrot and parsnip candies? It's stupid, its messy, it sticks straight to your teeth, but it actually tastes great.
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