Last time. I promise.

I know, I know, all I seem to post lately is those silly cough drops. But this time I think I have a winning batch!

The first recipe I ever read had a method for pouring the candy into molds made out of powdered sugar. And this morning before work I got to try it out for the first time. Observe:

I took a shallow pan, smoothed out the powdered sugar, and pressed little molds with the lid of an essential oil bottle. The cool thing about this is that the candy is so hot (300F) that the sugar repels it and they stay all nice and neat in their little molds without mixing with the sugar. Watching the process was pretty cool in itself.

This is after mixing them in the sugar and shaking the excess off--this was much, MUCH neater and faster than the previous method of scoring/cutting the candy as it cooled. I just needed more pans of powdered sugar in order to use up all the liquid. And a faster way to pour them so that the last dozen or so wouldn't be hardening and sticking to the pot. Ah well.