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

What candy can be made from honey? ›

These honey candies are perfect for sharing, whether you bring a platter into the office or bag them up as easy gifts.
  1. 01 of 06. Torrone (Italian Nut and Nougat Confection) ...
  2. 02 of 06. Almond Butter Fudge. ...
  3. 03 of 06. Honeycomb Toffee. ...
  4. 04 of 06. Homemade Melt-In-Your-Mouth Dark Chocolate (Paleo) ...
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How is bit of honey candy made? ›

The ingredients for Bit-O-Honey are rather simple. It's a mixture of corn syrup, coconut oil, egg whites, honey, sugar, and milk. Once all those ingredients are mixed together and put into the mold, chopped almonds are added into the mix to top it off.

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.

What can be crafted with honey? ›

Other things you can do with honey include crafting blocks of honey (which, as we've already established, are pretty neat) with four bottles arranged in a square in a crafting grid. You can also make sugar – one bottle of honey in a crafting grid all on its lonesome will give you three piles of sugar. Sweet.

How do you make energizing honey candy? ›

Energizing Honey Candies are made by Cooking at least one Courser Bee Honey together in a Cooking Pot. Since they're composed entirely of Courser Bee Honey, there is no default version of Honey Candies, as all results grant the energizing effect.

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».

Is Bit-O-Honey a taffy? ›

Bit-O-Honey is a honey-flavored taffy with almond — sold either as a candy bar or individually wrapped, bite-sized candies, available in bags or theater-size boxes.

What are the ingredients of bit of honey? ›

Bit-O-Honey Ingredients:

Corn syrup, sugar, water, hydrogenated coconut oil, nonfat milk, almonds, and less than 2% of honey, salt, egg whites, canola and/or safflower and/or palm oil, modified soy protein, natural flavor, TBHQ and citric acid (to preserve freshness).

Why is my taffy not hardening? ›

The simple answer is that there is too much moisture in your candy.

Why is my taffy so hard? ›

If our taffy feels hard, it is most likely because it is cold; try holding the taffy snugly in the palm of your hand for a few moments, the warmth should soften it right up!

What makes taffy chewy? ›

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.

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? ›

Is toffee the same as taffy? Taffy is in no way, shape, or form toffee. Taffy describes chewy fruit candies, whereas toffee is closer to caramel.

Does pure honey go candy? ›

Honey Crystallisation is a natural phenomenon. Crystallisation is when the sugar separates from the water and it looks like candy. Candied honey will look paler than liquid honey. The sugar in honey is formed from glucose and fructose.

How do you substitute honey for sugar in candy? ›

Depending on the honey, it can be two or three times sweeter than sugar. For every 1 cup of sugar, replace it with 1/2 to 2/3 cups of honey.

Are honey candies healthy? ›

While moderation is always key, choosing honey-sweetened treats over those laced with refined sugars is a step in a healthier direction. The next time you're reaching for a caramel or a sweet snack, make it a honeyed one.

Is Candy Corn made out of honey? ›

The ingredients in candy corn from Brach's, the largest manufacturer of the stuff, are sugar, corn syrup, confectioner's glaze, salt, dextrose, gelatin, sesame oil, artificial flavor, honey, Yellow 6, Yellow 5, and Red 3.

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