Hand made Honey Lollipops

[Yankee11]

Anyone tried this. Giving it a shot. I know it heats the Honey but I bet it sells.

[Jen]

I think it's a Yankee Doodle Dandy idea 

There is a store in the next town north of here, they sell honey candies as well, I always get some when I'm there. So Yankee when you send me the jelly, throw one of those in there too... pretty please   

  How do you make these anyway? and how much will you sell them for?

[Yankee11]

not sure of price yet but already have people asking to order them.

I just weighed them, and 3 of them weigh a little over an ounce. I am thinking 75 cents each.

That would be around 27.00 per pound of Honey. just doing raw math.

[Jen]

Okay, I like this idea, where do you get the lolipop molds? are they specific to honey?

[Yankee11]

I got these molds at Hobby Lobby and the sticks and bags.

Want to try and add lemon, cinnamon,  Stir into tea, coffee. use as a spoon in the peanut butter jar.

Maybe mix in some Wild Turkey..





Pretty good 

[jayj200]

The picture of your last lolly pop was deformed. how many of those do you get to the batch?

[Jen]

Hey Yankee how do you get them to the hard candy stage?

[Yankee11]

I used a candy thermometer and slowly heated the honey up 300 to310 degrees. Then let it cool for a minute to let the bubbles die down a bit then poured into the molds.

[Jen]

Well that sounds easy enough, I'm gonna have to give it a whirl 

[Bakersdozen]

This is interesting Yankee.  What could you add to make them good for a sore throat?  It's that time of year.
Are you selling them and for how much?

[Jen]

Good question Baker. I thinking of the sore throat drops that you can buy in a package in the store. Lemon, ginger, honey flavors.

But my biggest question is that the honey was heated so it may not have the healing properties of natural honey. So, at what temperature does heat destroy those properties.

I like this idea of sore throat lolli's 

[Bakersdozen]

Unfortunately, Yankee heating the honey up that high kills all the beneficial enzymes that honey contains.  You have candy, and nothing more.  It probably doesn't taste as good as it did before you cooked it.  I am not saying it's a bad thing.  It's just candy.  Kids will love it.  The cinnamon stirred into the honey sounds really good and healthy.
Jen, heating honey over 95-120 degrees starts destroying all the wonderful medical properties and taste of honey.  So I don't know how effective these would be as sore throat lollipops.  It's a darned good idea though.  There must be a way.  Hmmmm :eusa_think:

[brooksbeefarm]

I've seen chunks of comb honey with a popsicle  stick  in it dipped in chocolate sold at festivals, but was sold out before i got one. :'( Guess i'll have to make some, don't know what they sold for? Jack

[Jen]

oohh myy gauddd, that sounds wonderful, honeycomb and chocolate.. mm mm mmmm

[riverbee]

"I've seen chunks of comb honey with a popsicle  stick  in it dipped in chocolate sold at festivals, but was sold out before i got one. :'( Guess i'll have to make some, don't know what they sold for? Jack"

you sell the customer the honey comb, tell them to cut it up, or a portion of into small small squares.  get some chocolate, hersheys syrup works for cheap chocolate, or make your own chocolate; warm up or heat up some good chocolate, take some toothpicks, and poke them into the honey comb squares, dip into the chocolate.......seriously good stuff, and add peanuts/almonds/pecans to serve with or crumble for them to roll the chocolate covered honeycomb squares into .....

slobberin' good.........

[Jen]

That sounds Amazing! Definately on my list of F ;)all yummy makins

[brooksbeefarm]

I won't be selling any at the festival, the health dept. has strict rules on samples, and food stuff at festivals when selling in the open. Jack

[Bakersdozen]

I've seen chunks of comb honey with a popsicle  stick  in it dipped in chocolate sold at festivals, but was sold out before i got one. :'( Guess i'll have to make some, don't know what they sold for? Jack

How is that possible?  Man, that sounds so good!  I have got to figure this out.  I am envisioning  about 2 bites of comb honey encased in hard chocolate.  For the chocolate all you have to do is melt some chocolate chips in a double boiler.  How would you keep the honey from oozing out into your chocolate?  I guess you could freeze your comb honey after cutting it up.  Working with it frozen would give you some extra handling time.   Gee I wish I had some frames of comb honey.  Next year... :eusa_think:
This summer I had some of the most beautiful comb on foundation.  Picture perfect, you might say.  As we harvested I kept thinking how beautiful that would have been as comb honey.

[brooksbeefarm]

Baker, i don't know, i was thinking about how the wife buys white or chocolate bark to melt down and make peanut clusters and such for Christmas  candy. If you cut the chunks and let it drip dry like squirt does and dip it in the melted chocolate, do you think it would melt the comb honey that quick? Jack

[Jen]

Putting my thinking cap on...  I'm invisioning the frozen honeycomb dipping into the melted chocolate... and the chill of the honeycomb would would harden the chocolate more quickly..