This is my final post. Overall, I’m pleased with what I have accomplished. I’ve made everything that I’ve wanted to and I’ve tasted some pretty good candy.
In my opinion, this was a pretty great genius hour.
Until then

My hard candy did NOT work. It was sooo sticky.

I guess I didn’t wait until the candy boiled to 300 degrees F because I didn’t own a candy thermometer.

I’m working on my presentation right now. Ms. Englot keeps telling us that the most important rule of this presentation is “don’t bore your audience!”
I like that rule because if there’s ever a fifteen minute slideshow, I always begin to start daydreaming about the story-line of the novel I hope to publish in a couple years. Wait, don’t tell anyone I said that.

My cherry chocolate was okay. The top chocolate didn’t stay on but that was okay because it evened out the chocolate to cherry ratio. I’m sad because it didn’t create the shell I was hoping for.

I have sent an email to Mad Brad’s Candy. I hope he replies soon!

I am going to make hard candy this week, adapted from a caramel apple lollipop recipe.

I’m getting a little nervous because I’m scared that my expert won’t respond to me in time. I also still want to retry making chocolate and I have to make a presentation. I feel a little behind. This has made me more aware about time management. I’ll try harder to keep a schedule.

The cola jelly things (my new name for them) weren’t the biggest success, but I’m still pretty proud of them.

I need to start working on my presentation. I’ll go do that. Okay, bye!

Hey all! I’m a little past half way to my goal and I still have to see my expert. It seems like a lot, but I’m not that worried. But then again, I can be over confident. So we’ll see the outcome!

This week I’m going to make a gummy candy without gelatin. This recipe is my own, but heavily adapted from wowitsveggie.com.

I also found a recipe I could adapt from for my hard candy. The recipe is making lollipops, but I’ll be sneaky. Not much left to say right now, so I’ll check back next week.

Sorry, my posts are a little behind, I was making this. If you’re too lazy to watch both videos I would watch the second one. It was too long so I had to speed it up to upload it and it made my voice really high pitched and it’s kind of funny. Sacrifice for success!

I have been slowly searching for an expert. I have a pretty good idea on who I want. His name is Brad, from Mad Brad’s Candy. He owns a little candy stand somewhere in Kingsway mall and has a Facebook page on the candy he makes. I would look at it but I’m not allowed Facebook.

If I want Brad’s help, I don’t want to come empty handed. I want to give him something to taste of mine. But I don’t want it to be chocolate. I would rather it be something fruity, like a gummy.

I’m going to try a recipe I found on Pintrest made by Sparkly Fruit Gummies – Our. The recipe calls for a lot of sugar, but I’m going to decrease the amount.

Unfortunately, I could not upload the video of me making chocolate because of some technical difficulties. But I’ll tell you about the chocolate. It was AWFUL. I didn’t think chocolate could be bad, but I was definitely wrong. It was way too bitter for chocolate. It was probably because I added solid honey to the mixture and it didn’t mix in because it didn’t melt.

So overall, I need to add more sweetener to the chocolate. Also I over-measured everything when making the chocolate so I had so much excess left over. I wasted my dad’s coconut oil. 🙁
So next time I make chocolate, I will either melt the honey or use a different sweetener, like maple syrup.

For this first week, I’ll just be researching recipes for candy making. I think I will attempt to make chocolate over the spring break. Some people I know are going to say “Oh! Chocolate isn’t candy!” I will respect that opinion, but in this case it does count.

A problem I feel I will encounter is the chocolate melting at room temperature, so the chocolate will likely stay in the fridge.

I will soon make a video of me making chocolate soon. See you then.