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Home-made Cotton Candy Floss


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#1 Peter the eater

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Posted 23 June 2012 - 08:06 PM

Recklessly, I volunteered to make cotton candy floss (from scratch) for my kids' birthday party next week.

Who needs the $50/hr rental machine?

My twins will be 7 and, by the way, where does that time go?

Edited by Peter the eater, 23 June 2012 - 08:12 PM.

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#2 dhardy123

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Posted 23 June 2012 - 10:23 PM

or you can buy this one:

http://www.bedbathan...sp?SKU=17592912

for $40. I have used it ALOT with hard candies and it never fails to make excellent cotton candy. You really should check it out.

If you do want to make home made cotton candy, Sugar Baby http://www.amazon.co...ords=sugar baby has recipes for it, and you can see an example on it's cover. I tried it and its alot messier than the machine.

Edited by dhardy123, 23 June 2012 - 10:25 PM.


#3 minas6907

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Posted 23 June 2012 - 11:24 PM

How many kids will be at the party?

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Posted 24 June 2012 - 12:13 PM

By the way, the reason I asked how many will be there is because it might be worth it to just do it by hand if its not a large crowd, unless you really want to have a cotton candy machine. The method for making spun sugar in Notters "Art of the Confectioner" is considerably less messy then the usual way of flinging sugar between two dowels.

Also, if you do get the machine, make sure you use some new candy that hasn't started to crystallize. In some of the reviews for the machine, a few people said it didnt work at all with their hard candy, but I suspect that the outside of the candy they had started to crystallize, and then of course it wouldnt be able to melt and spun properly.

#5 Peter the eater

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Posted 25 June 2012 - 04:19 AM

Thanks for the ideas.

Twenty or so kids, and I would like to go the messy machine-less way.

Judging that book by the cover, Sugar Baby looks spot on.
Peter Gamble aka "Peter the eater"

I just made a cornish game hen with chestnut stuffing. . .
Would you believe a pigeon stuffed with spam? . . .
Would you believe a rat filled with cough drops?

Moe Sizlack