Hello and welcome to In The Kitchen With Matt.
I am your host, Matt Taylor.
Today, I have an exciting recipe for you.
I'm going to show you how to make the Dalgona or Ppopgi
Candy from Squid Game, and this is the little honeycomb candy
that they use in.
I think it's episode three and Squid Game is a wildly popular
show on Netflix.
And here is what it looks like.
Pretty cool.
And I want to point out, even though there's only two
ingredients here, it is a little tricky to make.
Here's a couple other ones that I try.
This was my third try was almost successful.
Didn't quite turn out how I wanted it, but it's
pretty good.
And this was my my second attempt doesn't look
that great.
And like, my first attempt was just kind of bad.
So don't be alarmed if it takes you a little time, a few
practices before you get it to look like this one,
which is really cool.
And so what do we need?
We need just two ingredients.
We need sugar and baking soda, two tablespoons of sugar and
about a sixteenth of a teaspoon of baking soda.
OK, and then you need a couple of different cookie cutters.
I have the star, which is classic from Squid Game and
The Circle, which is also classic.
Now you can get a Dalgona kit, which comes with a lot of
little things where you can make it yourself.
But I didn't want to buy the kit.
I just wanted to make it with things that you might have
in your house.
And then I have a little spatula.
This is a silicone spatula and I have a cake pan here.
It's a nonstick pan.
And first thing I want to do is I'm going to just spray on the
bottom of this and then just take a paper towel and just
wipe it down.
So it's just not completely like super liquidy on there,
but just nice and greased up.
And that's ready to go and when you use this to press
down the candy.
And now let's go over to the stovetop.
Now, traditionally what you do is you take like a metal ladle
and you hold it over like a flame or the burner and you put
your sugar in there and stir it.
I'm going to use a skillet and I have a heat set to
medium low.
And then I'll take my two tablespoons of sugar and put it
right there in the middle.
OK.
And you don't have to start right away.
But right when the sugar starts to melt is when you want to
start stirring and we're going to constantly stir.
It's already starting to melt a little bit and we want
to work, you know, just just like what I'm doing,
you're going to just kind of push it around and we're going
to just try to keep everything right here in the center.
And once the skillet is warm or hot, this process does not
take a whole lot of time, probably under five minutes.
Now you can make this little candy.
So just keep stirring, and eventually it's going to
start to melt.
And if you don't stir, then the candy is going to burn and a
sugar will burn.
It's going to turn a nice amber color, OK?
And once the sugar is completely melted, we can
remove it from the heat and then immediately add the baking
soda and we'll just give it a good stir.
And it's going to start to pop up.
Just keep stirring like that for about 10 seconds or so.
And then going, I'm going to just take it.
And just pour it.
Under this silicone mat.
Or you can do it on my parchment paper silicone that
works the best I have found.
I've tried it with both.
And now.
I'm going to let to sit for about 10 seconds.
All right.
And I'm going to push this down.
And then immediately put your whatever you want to use
right in there.
Boom.
Just like that.
And I'm going to let this just sit and cool for a few minutes
and it's ready to go.
And then to clean up your pan.
Just run it underneath really, really hot water and that'll
melt it and you can scrape it out and it'll be cleaned up.
Really nice.
All right.
We'll do this again again.
Two tablespoons of sugar right there in the middle of
the pan.
The heat is set to you about medium, low and then just
stir and keep everything kind of in the middle here.
And once the sugar has completely melted and it's nice
amber color, then what you can do is take it off the heat.
Add in that baking soda.
Stir it up baking soda around.
It's going to get nice and puffy.
Stir it for about 10 seconds.
OK,
we're going to take it in as part.
Right down here.
Kind of in a circle here.
And I'll let it sit for 10, not 10, 12 seconds.
OK, I'm going to push it down.
Great.
And then come in here and go down a little bit.
Well, and there it is, there is another one.
And then just let it cool completely and just be careful
when you're lifting it.
All right.
The Dalgona squid game candies are done, and some of them
turned out great, some of them not as good.
Some of them broke on me, but that gives you an idea of
what they could wind up looking like, especially when
you try them out.
It doesn't work all the time, but it's really fun.
Once you get it working like this one, it's turned out
really well, and now the game is to try to scrape away the
outside and just leave the inside piece.
So it's like you just want the star, just want the circle
and without it breaking at all.
And the kids, the kids, when they would play this,
whoever was able to do it first, they would get
a free Dalgona.
And in the TV show Squid Game, the stakes are much higher.
And so I'm going to give this a go.
I'm going to try it with.
I think this one.
And so you take it and you take this pen.
I think they're a little bit bigger in the show.
And then you can just kind of scrape.
And you've got to be really careful.
And if you've seen the show, you know what happens if
you break it.
And also, if you've seen the show, you know that
sound right there.
It's not super easy to hold on to this needle.
Oh, I got a piece off.
Nice.
Oh, it's stuck to my finger, lift it out and then broke
it right there.
Epic fail.
Darn it.
Well, there you go.
That is how you make this iconic candy from squid game.
Not super easy to do.
The ingredients are said well, it just takes a
little practice, and it doesn't always work every time.
But there you go.
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And now I'm going to show you what it tastes like.
Hmm.
It has like a nutty caramel flavor to it.
But if you like peanut brittle, then you'll
probably like this a lot.