today we’re going to take our YouTube
diamond play button and see if we can
use it to cast a solid candy play button
in as clear of candy as we can get
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
not long ago we made this diamond play
button mold and we’ve been trying to
think of the best things that we can
cast in it and one of the ideas we came
up with is to try and make the whole
thing look like a diamond rather than
just the one triangle in the center and
so we thought maybe we can cast that in
hard candy we’ve done some cool hard
candy stuff before we’ve made pokeballs
with Pokemon in them we’ve made an Iron
Man helmet and we think now it’s time to
see if we can make a candy diamond to
play button the idea here is pretty
simple we’re gonna whip up a big old
batch of our candy recipe see if we can
tinker with it a little bit to make sure
it stays a nice clear color and then
cast it in our diamond play button mold
we’re going to be using a slightly
different recipe than we’ve used for
candy in the past before our recipe
consisted of sugar corn syrup and water
but there is a downside to that and it’s
that if you don’t add any food coloring
it usually ends up turning a little bit
yellow today we’re using a different
recipe that doesn’t have quite as much
of that problem it uses Splenda sugar
and corn syrup with no water the recipe
is 2/3 cup Splenda 1/3 cup sugar and 1
cup corn syrup we’re gonna do a double
batch here so single batch is 2/3 cups
we’re going to do 4 thirds cups single
batch is 1/3 cup but because we’re doing
a double recipe 2/3 cups and now we need
[Music]
well there are more bubbles than I was
expecting and it’s yellower
than I was hoping for but we’re just
going to pour it into the mold anyway
all right let’s take a look at what
we’ve got so far I thought that I was
making enough of this recipe that I
could fill the mold about halfway and
then I also thought that the recipe I
had would turn out quite a bit more
clear than this and that I could just
let it sit for a bit and end up with
fewer bubbles and I was wrong on all
three of those points and this is after
doing a fair bit of research on how to
make this work so clearly I need to do
some more research and we’ll try
something else again
sure sugar layer seems to have hardened
quite a bit so we’ll see if we can pop
it out and what sort of texture we have
we’ve got the shape really well as you
can probably see though the surface is
just completely covered in bubbles like
everywhere I do still think it’s gonna
be possible to get this whole thing as
one solid clear block of sugar I may
need to use a different type of
artificial sugar there’s something
called isomalt that I know is often used
for this so I might have to try getting
all right well apparently I am terrible
making things out of isomalt because
this was supposed to be clear and
instead it’s well completely opaque more
than any isomalt has ever been opaque
ever so I need to call in an expert Cali
yeah I am NOT good at ice and all that
help actually this doesn’t even taste
good I’ve worked with isomalt a lot so I
have made it clear many many times I
didn’t actually know it could do this
not either it’s a lot simpler than
people make it out to be it really come
down to clean tools and exactly what
ingredient I smell if you want it clear
you’re not worrying about adding food
coloring or flavoring or anything else
you just need the isomalt itself and
then you just need to make sure you keep
everything clean it’s not easy so I will
clarify on one things even the
instructions on the backs of these will
sometimes tell you to add a couple
tablespoons of water to about a cup of
ice and melt and melt that down you can
especially if you’re adding food
coloring you’ll still get a pretty
decent result but it’s still going to
turn out a little bit cloudy or it can’t
be perfectly clear you’re gonna get a
yellowish tinge with tap water now if
you use distilled water you’ll have
better results but honestly you can just
melt isomalt on its own which is what
makes it so unique
even from sugar from all of the other
things that makes it different the
clarity of it is the main thing but the
fact that you can just melt it down on
its own and you can get beautiful
results it’s kind of what makes it so
special
let’s try it alright so you eat if
perfectly clean metal pot this is
nonstick and then I’ve got two new clean
spatulas that Nate has never stirred
nice turn some medium mm we’re gonna
start it 20 minutes medium heat so once
it hits a certain level of heat I think
it’s close to the hard crack stage for
sugar it will discolor no matter what
there’s no saving isomalt if you burn it
you leave it on a medium heat you don’t
need to worry about it not dissolving
correctly what’s gonna happen is it’s
gonna melt from the bottom you can tip
it gently you don’t want to stir it
because of those bubbles you don’t want
to really mess with it too much
all we’re gonna use the spatula for is
to poke any of the stuff that hasn’t
fully melted down to the bottom once it
looks nearly done we’ll turn off the
heat 40 minutes I say we’re going to be
so I mean we can compare do you want to
hold this next to your diamond plate no
let’s just pour this in and you can
so that’s probably going to take I would
say 7 hours I’m probably gonna let it
cure at least so you might as well just
leave it overnight and then it should be
nice and hard and it should be clear and
then we take it out and we just dump
there are bubbles and you can definitely
see bubble ooh the top guys we’ve got a
clear piece of candy here that was a
okay a little bit of discoloration and a
lot of bubbles but it could be worse and
guys we learned so much about this
namely you can’t put sugar in a silicone
mold hot sugar bubbles on contact with
silicone it’s pretty much unavoidable we
even tried making some other types of
molds but those like I made one out of
thermoplastic but thermoplastic isn’t
gonna hold up to hot candy being poured
in to do it just melt again and so in
the end what we did is we did use the
diamond play button mold and then we
just blow torched over the surface to
smooth it out this one is obviously the
correct size but gosh the bubbles are
bad so we’ve just got so much candy here
this one was pretty good except that
it’s too thin and we let it solidify all
the way and once it’s solidified and
it’s a separate batch like you’re never
gonna get the color just right it’s not
gonna laminate perfectly to it and so we
would have a gap there forever and we
really wanted like the right thickness
all the way through same color go in
here that ended up being a little bit
too dark you can see it is red if we
hold it up to a light but if you’re not
holding it up to a light it kind of just
looks black and we tried pouring another
layer of molten sugar over it rips
here’s the pour lines off to the side it
did not get rid of the bubbles like we
hoped it would no the isomalt actually I
think if we hadn’t been using a silicone
mold would have been our best bet the
problem is isomalt over a long period of
time and the fact that we’ve had it
above the stove so it’s been steaming up
when opaque again however you can see
where we took a blowtorch to it and the
nice thing about ice mold is unlike
sugar when it heats up it stays
beautifully clear it doesn’t caramelize
at all well I can burn it too but it
doesn’t caramelize and turn like yellow
guys thanks for watching you know that’s
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diamond play button and see if we can
use it to cast a solid candy play button
in as clear of candy as we can get
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
not long ago we made this diamond play
button mold and we’ve been trying to
think of the best things that we can
cast in it and one of the ideas we came
up with is to try and make the whole
thing look like a diamond rather than
just the one triangle in the center and
so we thought maybe we can cast that in
hard candy we’ve done some cool hard
candy stuff before we’ve made pokeballs
with Pokemon in them we’ve made an Iron
Man helmet and we think now it’s time to
see if we can make a candy diamond to
play button the idea here is pretty
simple we’re gonna whip up a big old
batch of our candy recipe see if we can
tinker with it a little bit to make sure
it stays a nice clear color and then
cast it in our diamond play button mold
we’re going to be using a slightly
different recipe than we’ve used for
candy in the past before our recipe
consisted of sugar corn syrup and water
but there is a downside to that and it’s
that if you don’t add any food coloring
it usually ends up turning a little bit
yellow today we’re using a different
recipe that doesn’t have quite as much
of that problem it uses Splenda sugar
and corn syrup with no water the recipe
is 2/3 cup Splenda 1/3 cup sugar and 1
cup corn syrup we’re gonna do a double
batch here so single batch is 2/3 cups
we’re going to do 4 thirds cups single
batch is 1/3 cup but because we’re doing
a double recipe 2/3 cups and now we need
[Music]
well there are more bubbles than I was
expecting and it’s yellower
than I was hoping for but we’re just
going to pour it into the mold anyway
all right let’s take a look at what
we’ve got so far I thought that I was
making enough of this recipe that I
could fill the mold about halfway and
then I also thought that the recipe I
had would turn out quite a bit more
clear than this and that I could just
let it sit for a bit and end up with
fewer bubbles and I was wrong on all
three of those points and this is after
doing a fair bit of research on how to
make this work so clearly I need to do
some more research and we’ll try
something else again
sure sugar layer seems to have hardened
quite a bit so we’ll see if we can pop
it out and what sort of texture we have
we’ve got the shape really well as you
can probably see though the surface is
just completely covered in bubbles like
everywhere I do still think it’s gonna
be possible to get this whole thing as
one solid clear block of sugar I may
need to use a different type of
artificial sugar there’s something
called isomalt that I know is often used
for this so I might have to try getting
all right well apparently I am terrible
making things out of isomalt because
this was supposed to be clear and
instead it’s well completely opaque more
than any isomalt has ever been opaque
ever so I need to call in an expert Cali
yeah I am NOT good at ice and all that
help actually this doesn’t even taste
good I’ve worked with isomalt a lot so I
have made it clear many many times I
didn’t actually know it could do this
not either it’s a lot simpler than
people make it out to be it really come
down to clean tools and exactly what
ingredient I smell if you want it clear
you’re not worrying about adding food
coloring or flavoring or anything else
you just need the isomalt itself and
then you just need to make sure you keep
everything clean it’s not easy so I will
clarify on one things even the
instructions on the backs of these will
sometimes tell you to add a couple
tablespoons of water to about a cup of
ice and melt and melt that down you can
especially if you’re adding food
coloring you’ll still get a pretty
decent result but it’s still going to
turn out a little bit cloudy or it can’t
be perfectly clear you’re gonna get a
yellowish tinge with tap water now if
you use distilled water you’ll have
better results but honestly you can just
melt isomalt on its own which is what
makes it so unique
even from sugar from all of the other
things that makes it different the
clarity of it is the main thing but the
fact that you can just melt it down on
its own and you can get beautiful
results it’s kind of what makes it so
special
let’s try it alright so you eat if
perfectly clean metal pot this is
nonstick and then I’ve got two new clean
spatulas that Nate has never stirred
nice turn some medium mm we’re gonna
start it 20 minutes medium heat so once
it hits a certain level of heat I think
it’s close to the hard crack stage for
sugar it will discolor no matter what
there’s no saving isomalt if you burn it
you leave it on a medium heat you don’t
need to worry about it not dissolving
correctly what’s gonna happen is it’s
gonna melt from the bottom you can tip
it gently you don’t want to stir it
because of those bubbles you don’t want
to really mess with it too much
all we’re gonna use the spatula for is
to poke any of the stuff that hasn’t
fully melted down to the bottom once it
looks nearly done we’ll turn off the
heat 40 minutes I say we’re going to be
so I mean we can compare do you want to
hold this next to your diamond plate no
let’s just pour this in and you can
so that’s probably going to take I would
say 7 hours I’m probably gonna let it
cure at least so you might as well just
leave it overnight and then it should be
nice and hard and it should be clear and
then we take it out and we just dump
there are bubbles and you can definitely
see bubble ooh the top guys we’ve got a
clear piece of candy here that was a
okay a little bit of discoloration and a
lot of bubbles but it could be worse and
guys we learned so much about this
namely you can’t put sugar in a silicone
mold hot sugar bubbles on contact with
silicone it’s pretty much unavoidable we
even tried making some other types of
molds but those like I made one out of
thermoplastic but thermoplastic isn’t
gonna hold up to hot candy being poured
in to do it just melt again and so in
the end what we did is we did use the
diamond play button mold and then we
just blow torched over the surface to
smooth it out this one is obviously the
correct size but gosh the bubbles are
bad so we’ve just got so much candy here
this one was pretty good except that
it’s too thin and we let it solidify all
the way and once it’s solidified and
it’s a separate batch like you’re never
gonna get the color just right it’s not
gonna laminate perfectly to it and so we
would have a gap there forever and we
really wanted like the right thickness
all the way through same color go in
here that ended up being a little bit
too dark you can see it is red if we
hold it up to a light but if you’re not
holding it up to a light it kind of just
looks black and we tried pouring another
layer of molten sugar over it rips
here’s the pour lines off to the side it
did not get rid of the bubbles like we
hoped it would no the isomalt actually I
think if we hadn’t been using a silicone
mold would have been our best bet the
problem is isomalt over a long period of
time and the fact that we’ve had it
above the stove so it’s been steaming up
when opaque again however you can see
where we took a blowtorch to it and the
nice thing about ice mold is unlike
sugar when it heats up it stays
beautifully clear it doesn’t caramelize
at all well I can burn it too but it
doesn’t caramelize and turn like yellow
guys thanks for watching you know that’s
not all we’ve always got more for to see
the box at the top is gonna take you to
our last video you should go check that
out the other box shows you what YouTube
thinks you should be watching next if
you hit this bomb here in the middle
you’ll be subscribed to the channel and
that way you’re never gonna miss out on
a cool video don’t forget to ring the
bell and we’ll see you in the next one talk to you then
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