Storing candies

Storing your home made brand new candies is important.

Unlike granular sugar the finished candy will be hygroscopic – which means it will soak up water from the air. The added water will make your candy look whitish and become very sticky. This is not a preferable attribute when it comes to hard candies.

To avoid this you must store your candies in an air-tight container.

A jam jar is not a good container – although for a week or two it may retain the candies in good condition, especially if a teaspoon of powdered sugar is added to the candies (which contains 2% corn starch). The starch will soak up most of the water and will keep your candies dry for some time.

On the bright side – if you store your candies in the refrigerator, even in a simple sandwich bag it will stay dry and hard for long terms. The reason is that the refrigerator dries the air inside it. However, make sure you store the candies in some sort of container or they will also smell like the food in your refrigerator…

Big companies can heat-seal each candy in it’s own small baggie – which is ideal, but this is not an option for most DIY candy makers. Hence, a heat sealed candy bag (preferably with a ziplock to allow the users to re-seal the bag) is the best way to store your candies. This is also a great way to give candies to friends and family.

I highly recommend these bags (shown below) and they ware available on ebay.com and aliexpress.com:

Enjoy,

Saar