Intersenny cotton candy recipes at home. Video
Cotton candy is very fond of children. Until recently, they had a chance to feast on it only on the days of visiting zoos and an amusement park. Now, thanks to the compact apparatus for making cotton candy, you can make this delicacy at home.
Cotton candy recipes: video for cooking at home
The principle of making cotton candy
The main ingredient in the preparation of cotton wool is sugar. It can be regular granulated sugar or special sugar with food colors and flavors. The latter is much more convenient to use. With such a product, you do not need to add additional ingredients to the sugar syrup during the cooking process.
Please note that such sugar may contain unhealthy dyes and additives.
Devices for the preparation of cotton candy are industrial and compact. At home, it is the compact devices that are used. They are small in size with a special turbine in the middle of the upper bowl. The principle of operation of the apparatus for making cotton candy is very simple. The required amount of sugar is poured into the turbine, the device turns on. When the turbine heats up, the sugar melts and turns into syrup. Then, at high speed, the molten mass scatters onto the walls of the upper bowl with a thin sugar cobweb. This is cotton candy, which then needs to be collected on a stick with winding movements.
There is another kind of device for making cotton candy. Instead of a turbine, it uses a disc onto which pre-prepared sugar syrup is poured in a thin stream. The disc rotating at high speed scatters a thin sugar cobweb on the walls of the apparatus. Then the cotton candy is carefully removed from the walls of the device with a stick. Using such an apparatus is more difficult, since you will have to additionally prepare the sugar syrup. But when using such a device, you can experiment with recipes, additives and colors.
If you use an apparatus with a turbine for home cooking of cotton candy, you just need to purchase a sugar mixture with different flavors and dyes.
When buying such mixtures, pay attention to the composition. It should contain only natural dyes.
If you have an apparatus with a disc or turntable, you can experiment with sugar syrup recipes.
Fruit cotton candy. Make sugar syrup. To do this, pour one glass of sugar into a saucepan, pour in half a glass of water and a few drops of vinegar. When the mixture starts to heat up, add half a glass of any berry or fruit syrup to it. Bring the mixture to a boil. Remove the pan from heat. Turn on the cotton candy maker and then pour the fruit syrup onto the spinning disc in a thin stream. Collect the sugar spider web on a stick.
Walnut cotton candy. Make a syrup with sugar, water, and vinegar. Once the syrup is hot, add a few drops of nut essence to it. As soon as the mixture begins to boil, remove it from the heat and cook cotton candy on the apparatus according to the instructions.
The classic cotton candy recipe. This recipe uses only sugar and water to make the syrup. If necessary, you can add a few drops of vinegar and vanilla essence to the syrup.