Cotton Candy Food

HOW TO MAKE COTTON CANDY

Steps:

• Combine the sugar, corn syrup, water, and salt in a large heavy saucepan over medium heat. Place 4 cups of sugar, 1 cup of corn syrup, 1 cup of water, and 1/4 tsp. of salt into the saucepan and stir the ingredients together until the sugar is melted. Use a pastry brush to wipe down the sides of the pan to keep sugar crystals from forming.
• Clip on a candy thermometer and heat the mixture to 320°F (160°C). Then, pour the hot liquid into a shallow and heatproof container. Then, add the extract and food coloring that you're using and stir the ingredients well. Though this recipe calls for raspberry extract and pink food coloring, you can use any extract or food coloring you want.
• Line parchment over your work table. You can also spread it on the floor so it will catch any bits of falling sugar that may go over the table.
• Spin the sugar. Dip the decapitated whisk into the sugar syrup. Hold it over the pot and allow the sugar to drip back into the container for just a second. Hold it about one foot (30 cm) above the parchment and swing it back and forth so that very thin strands of sugar begin to fall on the paper. Keep going a few more times until you've got a nice looking nest of spun sugar. Know that it won't look like the machine cotton candy you're used to.
• Wrap the cotton candy around lollipop sticks. You should do this right away, or the sugar will get brittle and would bend around the sticks.
• Serve. This is a dish best enjoyed immediately, but you can also seal it in air-tight containers to keep the moisture away from the cotton candy.

COTTON CANDY MILKSHAKE

Steps:

• Spread some vanilla frosting on a plate. Put some blue and red popping candy in a shallow bowl. Dip the rims of 2 glasses in the frosting and then in the popping candy. Set aside.
• In a blender, combine the blue cotton candy, 1 pint of the ice cream, 1/4 cup of the milk and 1/2 teaspoon of the vanilla. Blend until smooth. Transfer to a pitcher and rinse out the blender. Repeat with the pink cotton candy and the remaining 1 pint ice cream, 1/4 cup milk and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla. Fill each glass with the milkshakes, pouring in both colored shakes at the same time so the glass is half pink and half blue. Top each with some blue and pink cotton candy, a swirl lollipop and a rock candy lollipop. Add straws and drink immediately.