How Do You Make A Hard Candy Shell?

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How Do You Make A Hard Candy Shell?

by DEANIE
(MPLS MINN)

I want to make an inch square chocolate covered by a colored hard candy shell like M&M's or Jordan Almonds. Does anyone know how to do this?

Hi Deanie,

I've done my best to find the answer to this question, but I honestly can't locate a recipe to make a colored candy shell like M&M's. I'm sure there has to be one out there, unless M&M is keeping it a deep, dark, secret.

The best suggestion I could find was rather ingenious. One person recommended using that "Magic Shell" ice cream topping over your candy and popping it in the refrigerator to set.

It makes a shell coating, but it isn't exactly what you are referring to, I know. If you want to give it a try, you can probably locate it at the grocery store in the aisle with the ice cream toppings.

Sorry I couldn't find what you needed.

HELP! If anyone has a recipe for this hard candy shell coating, please share it here!

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Chocolate Candy
by: Chocolate Candy

Hey! I love chocolates very much and I am eagerly waiting to taste the chocolate covered by a colored hard candy shell.

M & M candy shell
by: mrwonka

i read on answers.com that that candy shell is corn syrup and sugar. doesnt really help us amatuer candy makers but its a step in the right direction

Hard Candy Shell Hopefuls
by: Angie

Thanks for the input Mr. Wonka! :-)

I'm wondering if you heated the correct proportions of corn syrup and sugar at a high enough temperature to reach the 'hard crack' stage then dipped your prepared chocolates in it if it would do the trick.

I have made hard tack back in my younger days. It does set very quickly, so it just might work. You can add food coloring to the candy syrup after you remove it from the heat (flavoring, too) if you like.

Anybody want to try it and let us know the results? :)

hard candy shell
by: maggie

On the hard candy shell after you cook it transfer it to a double boiler on low heat the hot water keeps it from setting up and you can work with it easier I make lots of hard tack for xmas learned this by trial & error using molds

Covering Chocolate with Hard Tack?
by: Angie

Thanks, Maggie, for your tip. It's always great to hear from the voice of experience!

I'm wondering if you ever tried dipping chocolate in the hard tack to make it a shell coating?

There has got to be some type of recipe for this, I'm sure. There's been others asking for a recipe for an M&M like coating on chocolate and I've just not been able to locate one.

Who's going to come to the rescue?

Hard candy coating
by: Dawn

I was watching the food network 'Unwraped' and theh way they do that hard candy coating is by layers in a tumbler. I am not sure that us amature candy makers would be able to really duplicate the results even if we were sure of a formulation. Maybe in a rock tumbler. I believe the formula is sugar and cornsyrup, flavor and color.

Sorry for our bad news if anyone figures it out though i would live to try it.

recipe for hard candy shell
by: Anonymous

I found one for Jordans almonds - I don't see why it wouldn't work for chocolate. I was wondering if the chocolate shoult perhaps be frozen before dipping it in the hot melted candy to coat it?

Here is the url:
http://www.recipezaar.com/Jordan-Almonds-Sugar-Coated-Almonds-269269

How can you make M&Ms?
by: Anonymous

I have been looking for a website on how to make M&Ms. Can you melt Jawbreakers? If you could melt Jawbreakers, and then add food coloring, they would be good to use for candy shells for chocolate. I wanted to make different kinds of M&Ms. But Jawbreakers might be too hard to melt, anyway.

How to make a sugar hard shell coating
by: Anonymous

The secret is sugar. Just plain old white melted sugar. When you make it, it must be an extremely thin coating. You must make the shell in halves, fill it with chocolate and place both halves together with a thin layer of melted chocolate, then coat in sugar a second time, but make sure the sugar is partially cooled before coating it a second time or you will melt the chocolate :D

Idea
by: Slim

maby after you get the candy shell to the hard crack stage you could coat your candy by makeing indentions in something like aluminum foil. fill it half full of the coating put the candy in and cover it up with more coating. its just an idea but it might work.

Jordan Almonds shell
by: Janelle

2 1/2 pounds whole blanched almonds
1 pound confectioners sugar
3 egg whites
food coloring if desired

if you just want the hard candy coating then just dont use the almonds and use whatever u want!!

in stand mixer use paddle attachment and beat sugar and egg whites together untill thick. add food coloring if desired!!

if using almonds toast them first in the oven at 350 for 5-10 min.

place almonds(or candy) on silicone baking sheets cover with the candy coating and let them sit to dry

makes about 4 cups of almonds

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