Honey Taffy -- An Easy One Ingredient Recipe (2024)

Make your own taffy candy from 100% natural honey — Honey Taffy is an easy one ingredient recipe to make with your kids!

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Welcome to the September 11, 2016 edition of Sunday Scratchups: Your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients. You can’t get much better & easier than One Ingredient Honey Taffy, right?

The birds and the… bees?

You guys already know about the artist formerly known as MashupDad’s backyard chickens hobby… but I don’t think I’ve yet mentioned his beekeeping hobby!

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He has a couple of hives here and at a friend’s mini-farm, which keeps us in the most awesome local honey you’ve ever tasted. This recipe? He found it online and tried it with the kids last week. If you don’t have your own source of local honey, I saw 40 oz jars of organic honey at Costcothis week for $7.49, you can pick up 100% honey on Amazon, or bulk honey often goes on sale at stores like Sprouts or Fresh Thyme.

Update: Check out MashupDad’s new observation beehive!

How to make one ingredient honey taffy

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Ingredients

1 lb real honey (about 1 1/2 cups)

Directions

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Bring honey to a boil in an uncovered medium saucepan over medium heat (about 5 to 7 minutes). Continue to boil until honey registers 280 degrees on a candy thermometer (about 10 to 12 minutes).

Line a pan with parchment paper and coat lightly with cooking spray. When the honey reaches temperature, pour it onto your prepared pan and allow to cool on the counter for 20-25 minutes.

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Spray your hands with nonstick spray, and break off about a third of the cooled honey. Begin to pull and stretch the honey, continually folding it and working more air into the taffy.

As you continue to pull and incorporate air into the taffy, it will start to firm up and become lighter in color. Keep doing this for about five minutes, or until taffy has lightened in color from dark amber to tan.

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When taffy is tan and firmed up, roll it into several long thin snakes and place these back on your parchment paper lined pan. Refrigerate pan for 10 minutes, then use a knife coated in cooking spray to cut each taffy roll into one inch long pieces.

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Roll up each piece of taffy in wax paper, twisting the ends to close.Makes 80 pieces.

That’s it — You just made honey taffy!

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Seriously: That’s it, one ingredient candy! Although High School Guy helped out here, his braces prevented him from actually enjoying any of the taffy — this is some seriously sticky stuff. It’s also seriously sweet, but Mr. 9 thought it was… if you’ll pardon the expression… the bee’s knees.

Honey taffy is naturally gluten and dairy free, so a perfect choice for families with food allergies. This is such a fun & simple dessert recipe to make with kids, or to use for gifts!

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Honey Taffy — An Easy One Ingredient Recipe

One ingredient honey taffy is naturally gluten and dairy free, so a perfect choice for families with food allergies. This is such a fun & simple dessert recipe to make with kids, or to use for gifts!

Course Dessert

Cuisine candy

Keyword candy, dessert, honey taffy, taffy

Total Time 1 hour hour 20 minutes minutes

Servings 80

Calories 19kcal

Author Rachel Singer

Ingredients

  • 1 lb real honey (about 1 1/2 cups)

Instructions

  • Bring honey to a boil in an uncovered medium saucepan over medium heat (about 5 to 7 minutes).

  • Continue to boil until honey registers 280 degrees on a candy thermometer (about 10 to 12 minutes).

  • Line a pan with parchment paper and coat lightly with cooking spray.

  • When the honey reaches temperature, pour it onto your prepared pan and allow to cool on the counter for 20-25 minutes.

  • Spray your hands with nonstick spray, and break off about a third of the cooled honey.

  • Begin to pull and stretch the honey, continually folding it and working more air into the taffy.

  • As you continue to pull and incorporate air into the taffy, it will start to firm up and become lighter in color.

  • Keep doing this for about five minutes, or until taffy has lightened in color from dark amber to tan.

  • When taffy is tan and firmed up, roll it into several long thin snakes and place these back on your parchment paper lined pan.

  • Refrigerate pan for 10 minutes, then use a knife coated in cooking spray to cut each taffy roll into one inch long pieces.

  • Roll up each piece of taffy in wax paper, twisting the ends to close.

Nutrition

Serving: 1piece | Calories: 19kcal | Carbohydrates: 5g | Sugar: 5g

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FAQs

How to make honey at home? ›

Directions
  1. Pour water, sugar, and alum into a large saucepan or Dutch oven. Place over high heat and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium and boil for 10 minutes. Skim any scum that forms on the top.
  2. Remove syrup from the heat and stir in flowers. Allow to steep for 10 minutes, then stir, and strain into storage jars.
Jun 18, 2020

What does cornstarch do in taffy? ›

Why do I add cornstarch? The addition of cornstarch (called cornflour in British recipes) helps give the taffy a smooth texture. Why do I add corn syrup? Corn syrup acts as an "interfering agent" in this and many other candy recipes.

What's in taffy candy? ›

Taffy is a type of candy invented in the United States, made by stretching and/or pulling a sticky mass of a soft candy base, made of boiled sugar, butter, vegetable oil, flavorings, and colorings, until it becomes aerated (tiny air bubbles produced), resulting in a light, fluffy and chewy candy.

How is bit o honey made? ›

How To Make bit o' honey (copycat recipe)
  • Melt the honey, peanut butter and almond paste together in the microwave. Stir with a wooden spoon every 30 seconds until reaching the soft-crack stage of 270ºF. ...
  • Let the mixture cool to 180ºF. ...
  • Cut into strips (@ 3/4 inch wide and 2 inches long). ...
  • Last Step: Don't forget to share!

How is honey made in simple words? ›

Honey starts as flower nectar collected by bees, which gets broken down into simple sugars stored inside the honeycomb. The design of the honeycomb and constant fanning of the bees' wings causes evaporation, creating sweet liquid honey. Honey's color and flavor vary based on the nectar collected by the bees.

How do you make honey by hand? ›

The simplest method of honey extraction, and probably the oldest, is the crush-and-strain method. You simply destroy each of the wax cells holding the honey by crushing the entire comb in a bowl (with a tool or with your hands). Once you've broken the cells, you must strain the honey and wax to separate them.

Why is my taffy not hardening? ›

The simple answer is that there is too much moisture in your candy. One or more factors could be contributing to this problem. In hard candy making, it is important to cook all the water out of the sugar/corn syrup/water mixture.

What makes taffy stretch? ›

The process of pulling taffy adds air to the taffy mixture, which in recent years has been made from corn syrup and sugar. The process of adding air to the taffy is important to keep it soft. Adding the aeration to the taffy will also make it lighter and chewier.

Does adding cornstarch change the flavor? ›

Here's a broad breakdown: Cornstarch is flavorless and odorless, and is used mostly to alter the texture of foods. It's almost pure starch. Corn flour is a fine, ground powder made from dried whole corn kernels.

Are Tootsie rolls taffy? ›

Tootsie Roll (/ˈtʊtsi/) is a chocolate-flavored candy that has been manufactured in the United States since 1907. The candy has qualities similar to both caramels and taffy without being exactly either confection. The manufacturer, Tootsie Roll Industries, is based in Chicago, Illinois.

What is taffy called in England? ›

In Canada and the USA, taffy is most often called either taffy or fruit chews. In most of the UK and Ireland, it's never taffy — only chews or fruit chews.

What is the difference between toffee and taffy? ›

The difference is mainly in the candy-making process: taffy is pulled and stretched until it's soft and chewy. Toffee, on the other hand, won't stick in your teeth like taffy, because it is boiled, shaped, and allowed to harden into a delicious, glossy slab.

What is the oldest candy? ›

The two oldest candy types are licorice and ginger. The historical roots of licorice are found in the early years of man's appearance. In particular, many licorice were eaten by Pharaohs and Prophets. The licorice comes from a plant called “Glycyrrhiza” which in Greek means «sweet root».

What candy came out in 1924? ›

1924 A unique non-chocolate candy bar, with a sweet taste and taffy consistency , called Bit O Honey is introduced by the Schutter Johnson company of Chicago.

How do you harden honey? ›

You can harden honey by boiling the honey to a temperature of 300 degrees and then letting the honey cool. This causes the honey to thicken and harden. If left alone, honey will also harden naturally or crystalize over time.

How long does homemade honey last? ›

Natural, properly preserved honey will not expire. In fact, archeologists found honey thousands of years old in ancient Egyptian tombs, and it was still good! While most of us don't need to worry about honey that old, their discovery proves that if properly contained, real honey can last for a very, very long time.

Is it safe to raw honey? ›

It is safe for people to consume both raw and regular honey, though it is a good idea to avoid types of honey that contain added sugars. Both raw and regular honey may contain tiny amounts of a bacteria known as Clostridium botulinum. This bacteria can cause botulism, which is a rare form of food poisoning.

Can I make honey in my backyard? ›

Yes, the Flow Hive is perfect for beekeeping in backyards in California. You don't need acres of space, just a couple of square feet in which to put your hive. The bees will travel in a radius to find food and return to the hive laden with pollen and nectar.

How to make sure honey is safe? ›

Keep honey in sealed container.

Because honey contains little water, bacteria don't grow easily, but improperly sealed containers could allow moisture in. Keeping your honey in the original container that you bought it in is recommended, and after use, make sure the lid is on tight so moisture and odors can't sneak in.

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