hey everyone its James from fun foods and today I'm gonna show you how to make this hand
pulled cotton candy now this is a great dessert because you can eat it just as
it is or you can use it on other types of desserts as decorations so keep
watching I'll show you step by step how to make this the first thing we want to
do is start off with a medium bowl and to that I'm gonna add two cups of sugar
I'm also gonna add 1/4 of a cup of light corn syrup next add a teaspoon of
vinegar and in a separate container I have 1 cup of water I'm going to add a
few drops of pink food coloring to it just mix this in a few more drops and the
reason we're mixing this in separately is we don't want to over mix our mixture
here so we're gonna pour that 1 cup of water with the food coloring in there
and we want to give it a gentle mix make sure you don't slosh things around too
much
now just take this over a stove we're going to heat it up until it gets to 269
degrees Fahrenheit now we're just gonna turn our burner on medium and we just
want to leave it be and let it reach temperature after about 5 minutes you'll
see it starts to boil a little bit just still leave it be and if you want you
can put your candy thermometer in at this time and just make sure it doesn't
touch the bottom of the pot set that up and we're gonna wait until it gets to
269 degrees Fahrenheit and occasionally you want to take a damp brush and wipe
down the sides so that we don't have any crystallization okay at this point is
reached 269 degrees Fahrenheit so I'm gonna cut off my heat and I'm gonna let
it sit there it's going to continue to rise in temperature don't worry that's
perfectly normal but it's only gonna rise a couple degrees now at this point
if you're putting it into a silicone mold
you can pour it straight into that mold I'm going to use this plastic container
so I'm going to let the temperature come down to about 212 degrees before I pour
it in this container so after your temperature has come down about 212
degrees Fahrenheit we can pour it into our plastic container now just let this
cool down and harden up now what we need to do is take some cornstarch and just
put it on a surface I have a baking sheet here and you're gonna need about 2
to 3 cups worth of this cornstarch and then we take our candy this has been
sitting and firming up for about 3 to 4 hours and we just want to kind of open
this up and see if we can pop this out if it doesn't come out no big deal take
it put it in the microwave for about 10 seconds and that'll make it easier for it to
come out alright so I'm just kind of working the plastic a little bit and
hopefully it'll pop right out
I'm gonna use offset spatulas try to get in there and loosen this up you use a
silicone mold it's much easier and I couldn't find a silicone mold that was
in the shape I was looking for now this is proving to be a real pain getting out
of this okay so now let's pop this out
and you should be left with this nice circular shape just pop it into your
cornstarch and what we're going to do now is kind of make a hole in the middle
here as we work this and make it like a big doughnut just slowly work it
there we go and now what you need to do is we're just gonna kind of squeeze this
together and pull it apart as we circle around and we're just keeping that shape
of that big giant donut and we're just slightly pulling it just a little bit as
we circle around and you kind of keep it dipped into the cornstarch as you circle
around a little bit and you see your doughnuts getting bigger and bigger as
you go and it should pull apart fairly easily it is a lot of work you don't
want to over pull it but just pull it enough and right when it gets to about
arm's length wide what we're gonna do now about this length is take it like
this and we're gonna twist it like a figure eight put it back and now it's
doubled right and again we're just going to go around just like we did the first
time but now with two strands and pull these
and when it's about the same length it was the first time take it again
figure eight it back together my arms already getting tired and we're
nowhere near completion alright and just keep doing it stretch pull stretch and
pull and again take the four strands twist it figure eight now we have eight
who you can take a break every once in a while this is a workout guys and just be
careful not to break them off you can kind of squeeze them together if they do
you just want to pull ever so slightly I pulled a little too much and broke one
of my strands off
alrigth and then twists
so I'm having some strands break off it's okay but you try not to break them
off be very gentle with them only cool a little bit we're just going through in
some of these real thick strands that have broke off I'll just kind of make
sure they're about the same size as the rest of the strands if they don't break
off it's much easier and you can see how hard it's getting to be with me because
I broke off some of these strands and really be careful as you break them off
it makes it much much harder but we're gonna keep going just remember to keep
it dipped in that cornstarch as you go you see it's coming along pretty nice
we're gonna twist and pull again now it's up to you when you want to stop it
it could you could stop at this stage it's pretty good but I'm gonna go one
more turn my arms are killing me this is crazy
all this for candy
alright guys so this is our hand pulled cotton candy Wow well now it's time for
the taste test I'm gonna try one I'm talking a little bit of the cotton candy
that I put on one of the sticks and see how it tastes
tastes like bubblegum to me like bubblegum flavor what's just me but it
definitely has a different texture than your normal cotton candy but it's good
well thanks everyone for watching I hope you enjoyed watching you make this hand
pulled cotton candy it was a lot of fun making and it tasted amazing so I hope
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