Welcome to How To Cook That I am Ann Reardon
This week I am going to show you how you can make jelly beans at home.
The first thing that we need to do is make a mold and to do that I am going to use playdoh
to make little jelly bean shapes.
You can make it whatever shape you want but it doesn't come out super detailed os keep
it simple.
Your finished jelly beans will also be bigger than your molded shape so if you want little
jelly beans then make these molded shapes smaller.
Use a hot glue gun stick them to a ruler or flat piece of wood making sure you leave some
space between each one.
Now fill up a baking tray with cornflour and we need this to be completely level and smooth
on the top edge.
So I am filling it right to the top of the tin.
So that I can use the edge of the tin to smooth that out flat.
Now take your jelly bean shapes that you made and push them into the cornflour to make an
indent.
Continue to do that all the way down the tray so you have a whole sheet of jelly bean shaped
indents.
In a saucepan mix together the sugar and the cornflour, and for the ingredient quantities
that you need for this recipe see this weeks recipe post on the website howtocookthat.net,
there's a link in the description just below the video.
Then add the glucose syrup or the corn syrup and the water and stir until they are well
combined.
Place the pan over high heat and stir until the sugar is dissolved.
Then remove it from the heat and wash down the sides of the pan using a wet pastry brush.
This gets rid of any sugar crystals that might still be on the sides because they'll make
the inside of our jelly beans crystalize and we don't want that we want it to be nice and
smooth and chewy.
Return to the heat and add a candy thermometer and heat it until it reaches 245F or 118C
Using a spoon pour the hot syrup into each indent.
And you need to do this straight away or it will set in your pan so quickly get a spoon
and pour it in.
This is why your cornflour needs to be completely flat, because if it is not then the syrup
will run out of those indents.
Now you need to leave those to cool for a few hours.
Once they're cold you can scoop it all out into a sieve and shake it to get rid of the
cornflour.
And this leave us with the middles of the jelly beans.
And you can eat them just like that if you want to but if you want to make them colourful
on the outside then what we need to do is put some corn syrup into a bowl and add to
that some colouring and flavouring.
I am going to use a deep pink colour which is almost a red colour and raspberry essence
for these ones.
Mix it together really well and then put two small spoons of that into the beans and mix
them around and around until they are sticky and coated on all sides.
Then transfer those jelly beans into a bowl of caster sugar which is just fine sugar and
then stir that so that the sugar sticks to each one and coats it, make sure none of the
beans are stuck together just seperate them because you want the sugar on all sides.
To make the coloured layer thicker then you can just repeat that same process add more
or the flavoured mixture and then more of the sugar on top.
Now you could serve them just like that but if you want them smooth like real jelly beans
then you need to tumble them.
For that you could do it by hand but you'd be standing there for an awful long time so
I am using a kids rock tumbler.
Add in the jelly beans and to stop them sticking together I am also going to grate up some
cocoa butter and add that in as well.
Now real jelly beans when they are making them they either use an edible bees wax or
commercial additive like shellac and that makes them shiny and it stops them sticking
together but I don't have those so the cocoa butter is just going to stop them sticking.
Turn on the machine and let them tumble for about two hours.
Turn them off and tip them out, and now you can see after a couple of hours of tumbling
they are nice and smooth, they are not as shiny as real ones, as I said you'll need
the additives for that.
But they are just as yummy.
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