how to make dalgona candy
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INGREDIENTS
Servings: 1 Cooking Time: 5 min Difficulty: Moderate
Ingredients
1 Tbs sugar
1 pinch baking soda
1 tsp vegetable oil
Equipment/Tools
1 ladle or large spoon
1 metal chopstick or a candy stick
1 small silicon spatula or spoon for scraping
1 flat plate or smooth metal or stone surface
dalgona mold or cookie cutter molds (optional)
1) Coat a plate or a metal or stone surface with a bit of vegetable oil. Coat oil on a hotteok press or any ceramic or metal plate/pan that you can use to press the melted sugar. Have these two items and a silicon spatula ready next to your stove.
2) Add 1 Tbs sugar in a ladle or large spoon.
3) Hold the ladle or spoon on top of the stove at medium-low heat and melt sugar for about 3-4 min until it becomes liquid and is looking semi-transparent.
Dalgona Sugar Melted for Sponge Candy.
Avoid burning by stirring constantly with a chopstick while it melts and take it away from the heat anytime it starts to smoke. Lower the heat if necessary.
4) Once it has turned into sugar syrup, add a pinch (or 3 dips with the end of the chopstick – see video) of backing soda to syrup.
5) Immediately take the ladle off the heat and mix soda with the syrup. Stir well.
6) Move the ladle one more time back on the stove and heat it up for just about 4-5 seconds, until the sugar mixture starts to puff up. Don’t wait too long, then you are most likely going to burn it. If you see dark brown color then you kinda burnt it.
7) Transfer sugar+soda mixture onto greased plate or surface. Use a spatula to scrape it off from the ladle.
Immediately press the melted sugar mixture down to make a thin disc like candy.
Press for 3 seconds or so and then before it fully hardens, press your mold on the candy.
Here is a close up of a heart shape mold. Press this into the candy while taking care not to press so hard that the mold cuts through the candy.
8) Let it cool and there you go!
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