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step 1
Get your ingredients ready
Makes about 12 lollipops 2 cups sugar 2/3 cup light corn syrup red food coloring white lollipops stick - you can find them at your local craft store.You can even add flavor oils like peppermint or strawberry if you like.


step 2
Getting the sugar melted
Bring sugar, corn syrup, and 1/4 cup water to a boil in a small saucepan, stirring until all the sugar is dissolved completely. If you have a candy thermometer it will register 300 degrees to 310 degrees (hard-crack stage), 5 to 7 minutes.While the sugar is boiling lay out your lollipop sticks onto a silicon baking mat ( I put my baking mat onto a cookie sheet to make…


step 3
The ice water bath
Once you have placed your lollipop sticks down - Fill a larger pot with ice water. When your sugar mixture is ready - 300 degrees to 310 degrees, immediately set the pan into ice-water bath to stop the cooking (syrup will steam vigorously - be careful of the steam); let sit about 25 seconds. Swirl pan 1 minutes more to cool - it while still be bubbling, that's OK .


step 4
Pour and add the blood
Working very quickly, pour syrup onto the silicon baking sheets, forming circles (2 to 31/2 inches in diameter) and spacing pours about 3 inches apart - then press in lollipop sticks. I went very randomly - wherever there was space I made a lollipop. The fun part:With the red food coloring - squirt a few drops in to each lollipop (I would do one at a time to make it eas…


step 5Let it cool
Let stand for about 5 - 10 minutes for the sugar to harden completely.