Teacups
Assistant Cook
So I've made hard candy successfully a few times already but the last few times I've tried something weird has happened; when I add the ingredients at the end (citric acid, food coloring, natural flavoring, and either zest or fruit puree) and whisked to combine the whole mixture foamed up and when the bubbling stopped the mixture was dark brown and very, VERY bitter. The specific recipe I tried was for sour orange hard candy with 2 g orange zest and 24 g citric acid plus about half a dram of flavoring. I tried again omitting the zest and using about half the citric acid thinking that might have been the problem but the same thing happened. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Please help!