Angel Food Candy
"A classic, crunchy candy."
- Ready In:
- 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Serves:
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30
ingredients
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 cup dark corn syrup
- 1 tablespoon vinegar
- 1 tablespoon baking soda
- 2 cups semisweet chocolate morsels
- 2 tablespoons vegetable shortening
directions
- Butter a 9x13 inch baking dish.
- In a medium saucepan over medium heat, combine sugar, corn syrup and vinegar. Cook, stirring, until sugar dissolves. Heat, without stirring, to 300 to 310 degrees F or until a small amount of syrup dropped into cold water forms hard, brittle threads.
- Remove from heat and stir in baking soda.
- Pour into prepared pan; do not spread. Mixture will not fill pan.
- Allow to cool completely.
- Melt morsels and shortening in medium, uncovered, microwave-safe bowl for 1 minute; stir. Microwave an additional 10 to 15 seconds, stirring until smooth.
- Break cooled candy into bite sized pieces and dip into melted chocolate. Let set on waxed paper. Store tightly covered.
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This is sooooooooogood. We are from Wi .And they sell this just before Christmas. other wise you can't find it. We now live in Ar.And we have to make our own.This is so good.Marge -
Awesome! I love angel food candy and it was really hard to find a recipe for it, but this one is a winner. the only change I made was to use Almond Bark instead of the chocolate it's much easier to work with. -
Boy, did this bring back wonderful memories. I haven't found this in stores for years and so decided to find a recipe. My mother always bought this for us when we were kids-she'd have to hide it from us! It was easy to prepare and turned out great! My brother(who I consider a master chef) declared it better than the original! -
I was just at my godmother's house for my annual Christmas tea and chat and she was making this today! Definitely have a thermometer you trust. She had a new one and it didn't register right. The "old faithful" did but the first batch got too brown. This candy was a staple in our family at Christmas and no one outside the family ever understood what "Angel Food" candy was. We would fight over the biggest chunks! She prefers to put in buttered glass loaf/casserole dish with deeper sides so as to make it thicker (hence the big chunk fights!) -
I found this very tasty, very sweet! Perhaps rather too chocolatey; next time I might just use 1 1/2 cups or less of the chocolate, but still a great candy!
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Awesome! I love angel food candy and it was really hard to find a recipe for it, but this one is a winner. the only change I made was to use Almond Bark instead of the chocolate it's much easier to work with.
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