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  • So today, we're making a batch of Guava flavoured candy.

  • The design will have three different colours

  • white, black and green.

  • There will be a very beloved animal inside our candy today.

  • The animal's colour has two colours, black and white.

  • I guess you can already take a guess at what we're going to make today.

  • So now I'm mixing in the white colour

  • which is going to be the face of the Panda and also background of the candy.

  • The green is going to be the wrap of the candy.

  • Since Pandas like bamboo a lot, we figured us to make the candy outside green

  • to resemble the bamboo's colour.

  • We put in some of the candy in a frying pan...

  • the reason for that it's easier to control when we have many different colours.

  • So now I'm about to put the malic acid into the black part.

  • It's the kind of acid we put in our non-citrus flavours, to make the flavours more robust.

  • So Guava is kind of a sweet flavour, but we still need to put in quite a bit of the malic acid.

  • So now I'm going to pour it out.

  • The candy is very liquidy, that means it's still extremely hot.

  • It's about 180° Fahrenheit

  • which is still too hot for us to make a shape with it. So we're going to leave it there let it cool down a little more.

  • This big piece is also cooling down, so we're going to check if it's cool enough to put in the acid.

  • We don't want to put the acid in too early, otherwise it will burn and make the candy yellow.

  • The temperature is about right so I'm going to put in the rest of the malic acid.

  • Now let's mix it in.

  • As you can see, the edge of the candy has already cooled down.

  • It makes it easier to separate.

  • I need to separate this really quick, and to be accurate.

  • So later on I'm going to stretch this big yellowish mixture.

  • We're going to make this shiny and white

  • by using a technique we call sugar pulling.

  • So what's she's doing right now, is cooling the candy down with her hands

  • folding them, making sure it has an even temperature all around

  • As you can see, it's no longer that soft compared to earlier.

  • The candy mixture even right now is extremely hot. How do I know?

  • I learned the hard way. Look at my battle scars. [laughs]

  • You will be very surprised... we are working with something extremely dangerous and hot.

  • Right now I'm stretching this big piece on a hook.

  • What I'm doing is called sugar pulling, candy stretching... many different names

  • but basically what I'm doing is folding air into the candy

  • so it will reflect more light

  • The tiny air bubbles also help make the candy very crunchy.

  • What I'm pulling is about 6 Kilograms of sugar.

  • I have to keep pulling this at a steady speed.

  • This is truly quite a workout.

  • A few more stretches, we're almost there.

  • At the end, this big piece is becoming harder to pull, because it is cooling down a little bit.

  • That's why we have to do it really fast, when we get the chance.

  • We're done.

  • Now it's so white and shiny... and it's so fluffy.

  • This is going to be our panda.

  • You may ask, why don't we use the hook again? It's too small for the hook.

  • It will cool down too fast.

  • That's why she'll do it by hand on the table, while still warming the candy.

  • This requires a lot of physical strength as well.

  • I'm just happy to have a break. [laughs]

  • You may notice the black is no longer very dark.

  • It became kind of a silverish grey.

  • But Don't worry, the final result will be very dark, and black.

  • So now I will start to make the panda. We will make his eyes first.

  • So I cut a little piece of white, let's get a little piece of black - to be his eye ball.

  • You may ask why we're only making one eye, when a real panda has two eyes.

  • Well, in the candy making world, we try to make things that are identical only once.

  • So later on you can see how we turn this one eye into two eyes.

  • To make the piece, I'm applying a little bit of water on it.

  • And then we're going to put the eye ball right in the middle.

  • Then let's wrap the black with the eye white.

  • Then roll it out.

  • Then I'm going to take this black piece right here and make the panda's most important symbol

  • on his face which is his lovely eye shadow.

  • So now we're going to make this one bigger.

  • So we will be able to wrap the eye we just made.

  • So as you can see earlier, we were sticking two pieces of candy by applying a little bit of water.

  • Water is really like a superglue when we make candies.

  • They help two pieces of candy that are a bit cold to stick together.

  • When the candies are hot they just stick on their own.

  • So now we already made one eye for the panda. Now we will turn that one eye into two eyes.

  • It's actually very simple.

  • When we make candies and we have something that need to be identical but we need multiple pieces out of it

  • we simply stretch it and cut it into the quantity that we want.

  • In this case we're going to seperate the one eye into two eyes.

  • Now I'm going to cut this piece.

  • So as you can see we've already finished the two eyes of the panda.

  • For the nose it's going to be a little triangle, downwards

  • The mouth is going to be a two half circles with black outlines on them.

  • Like I said earlier, we're just going to make one piece, then cut that piece in half.

  • We have our panda's inside all assembled.

  • You may not see the entire panda yet, but soon.

  • Now we'll just make his face fatter.

  • Its face is nearly complete, we're just going to make another outline of black, to draw his face.

  • We have to remember to leave some black to make the ear.

  • Now... it's big round face.

  • Now we just have to make it's ear.

  • Now the panda is inside the roll.

  • What's left is to make a final wrap using our green.

  • The reason why we have to constantly roll the candy is that

  • the table is heated. If we don't constantly roll, the candy will become flat

  • and the image inside will become disoriented.

  • So now we're going to stretch this big candy into small pieces that are bitable sized.

  • Now it's about ready, this is how we make it small! The weight of the sugar and gravity.

  • Thank you very much for watching the video.

  • My name is Lin.

  • This is a customized lollypop made of real sugar.

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  • All the candies are vegan, and allergy free.

  • Until next time... have a sweet day!

So today, we're making a batch of Guava flavoured candy.

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