Cannabis Hard Candy Recipe

A DIY cannabis hard candy recipe

Everyone makes cannabutter and baked goods, only the truly dedicated make their own hard candies! At SunBud we enjoy THC and CBD edibles in all forms. One of our favorites is these lozenges. We like to flavor our lozenges with herbal teas (or just plain herbs from our gardens) so they taste like the natural medicine they are. Fruity gummy candies and sweet baked goods have their place, but sometimes it’s nice to just slowly savor a medicinal lozenge.

While making hard candies requires a bit more skill and attention than cannabutter and baked goods, if you pay attention to the details in our recipe you’ll do just fine (as always, we’re keeping it simple!).

Supplies:

Making hard candies requires a bit of specialized equipment. You’ll need (in addition to a typically equipped kitchen) a candy thermometer and a candy mold. We use this thermometer, and this mold, but you can certainly use other brands, shapes, and sizes! You’ll also need a pot with a heavy bottom. A 2-quart pot works well for the size of this recipe.

Ingredients:

1 tablespoon THC or CBD tincture

½ cup super strong herbal tea for flavoring

1 ½ cup sugar

¾ cup corn syrup

Process:

STEP1: Brew the strongest tea you can with your herb of preference. We’ve used lemon balm, mint, and commercial teas with great success.

STEP 2: Take ½ cup of your brewed tea and mix with 1 ½ cups of sugar, and ¾ cups of corn syrup.

STEP 3: Bring the mixture to a boil and stir frequently. Once it boils, stop stirring and turn heat down to medium high. It should be hot enough to continue boiling vigorously.

STEP 4: Let mixture boil until the candy thermometer reads 310° F and remove from heat (take it off the burner and place the pot on a wooden cutting board or a trivet of some sort). The temperature will continue to rise; you can expect it to rise to around 320° F. Then it will start to cool – allow it to cool without any stirring until it reaches 250° F.

STEP 5: When the temperature reaches 250 degrees, stir in three tablespoons of your cannabis tincture. Be careful – as you begin to stir in the tincture the mixture will boil and steam heavily.

STEP 6: Immediately after the tincture has been stirred in, pour the entire mixture into candy molds.

STEP 7: Let the candies cool for an hour or so, then pop them out of their molds.

STEP 8: Roll candies in sugar if they feel a bit tacky to prevent sticking. You can also individually wrap your candies in cellophane wrappers.

That’s it. You can now store your candies in a glass jar and enjoy!

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