I'm just a beginner, so I thought this would be a good one to try. Its great! With food coloring, its very pretty. Instead of flavored extract, I added a tbl of water to a packet of kool aide (cherry) and put that in. Yummy!

We are using this recipe to make our wedding favors. We were able to spray candy molds and use a candy funnel with stopper to put just the right amount of mixture into each mold. We now have beautiful, inexpensive, calla lily candies. I omitted the food coloring and chose almond flavoring. The candies are stunning and our guests will absolutely love them!

I've made this recipe twice now and one time I thought I would make banana flavored candy with banana extract (have used this before in other recipes and is delish!). I put in even a little more than the recipe called for and it smelled great and everything. But come time to break the candy and try it, it tasted like nothing, just sweet. Not even a hint of flavor, no smell, nothing!!! Bleh! Now another time I took another reviewer's suggestion and used one and a half packets of Kool-Aid dissolved in just a bit of water and this was much better... unfortunately I ruined the batch by putting it in a glass pan thinking I could cut it into squares before it cooled... dumb idea. Anyhow, I will try this again using another flavor of some sort, I'm not sure if it was the recipe or just that banana is a bad flavor to make candy with!

i made this but i used cherry jello mix,it tastes great

This is a very Good Hard Candy Recipe!An very Easy! Thank You!!!

Super easy! I make this every year and everyone loves it, although I usually double the flavoring.

Great hard candy base recipe. I made several flavors. Favorite is cayenne ciannamon.

i kept burning it until i started taking it off the heat at 250 degrees, but i think that is soft candy. I also put at least 1 tbs of flavor instead of 2 tsp. This stuff is really good.

I have always loved Hard Candy. This little recipe is my first homemade candy and I am extreamly pleased witht he results!

Great and simple rescipe!!! Wonderful for beginners. I used lemon for one batch and strawberry for the other. Both turned out perfect.