Totally stolen from some website that stole it from some blog that stole it from Epicurious. The first 48 hours after you make this, it has a sort of flat blandness to its flavor, but around day 3 it develops that irrefutable candy corn zing. Since it keeps for some time, I would recommend making it three or four days in advance of consumption if possible.
You can easily make this with vegan substitutions.
Ingredients:
* 1 cup sugar
* 2/3 cup light corn syrup
* 5 tablespoons butter or margarine or earth balance
* 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
* 2 1/2 cups powdered sugar
* 1/3 cup powdered milk or soy milk
* a pinch of sea salt
* Red and yellow food coloring
Instructions:
Sift the powdered sugar, powdered milk, and salt into medium bowl. Set aside.
Melt the butter. Don't let it bubble.
In a large saucepan, bring the sugar, corn syrup, melted butter, and vanilla to a boil over medium-high heat. Do not allow the temperature to exceed 240 degrees F. Reduce the heat to medium-low, and continue to simmer (almost boil) the mixture for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally, keeping the temperature between 235 and 240 degrees. After 5 minutes, remove from heat.
Slowly add the powdered sugar mixture to pan, stirring to combine. Continue stirring until it's smooth and all the clumps are out.
Let the mixture stand until warm (rather than hot) to touch, about 10-15 minutes.
You have to do the following steps relatively quickly, because if the dough chills too much, it becomes a little brittle for what you need from it.
Divide the dough into 3 equal pieces.
Take the first piece and knead it, then roll it out into a tube. If you roll it out too thin, it will break, so don't do that.
Add several drops of yellow food coloring to the second piece of dough and knead food coloring into the dough until the color is even. Then roll that out into a tube of length equal to the first tube. Repeat using red and yellow food coloring for orange with the third piece.
Push the three tubes together to form one big, 3-layer rectangle.
Using sharp knife, cut the ropes into triangles. Some will be white tipped and some will be yellow tipped.
Enjoy!
