Honey Taffy -- An Easy One Ingredient Recipe (2024)

Make your own taffy candy from 100% natural honey — Honey Taffy is an easy one ingredient recipe to make with your kids!

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Welcome to the September 11, 2016 edition of Sunday Scratchups: Your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients. You can’t get much better & easier than One Ingredient Honey Taffy, right?

The birds and the… bees?

You guys already know about the artist formerly known as MashupDad’s backyard chickens hobby… but I don’t think I’ve yet mentioned his beekeeping hobby!

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He has a couple of hives here and at a friend’s mini-farm, which keeps us in the most awesome local honey you’ve ever tasted. This recipe? He found it online and tried it with the kids last week. If you don’t have your own source of local honey, I saw 40 oz jars of organic honey at Costcothis week for $7.49, you can pick up 100% honey on Amazon, or bulk honey often goes on sale at stores like Sprouts or Fresh Thyme.

Update: Check out MashupDad’s new observation beehive!

How to make one ingredient honey taffy

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Ingredients

1 lb real honey (about 1 1/2 cups)

Directions

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Bring honey to a boil in an uncovered medium saucepan over medium heat (about 5 to 7 minutes). Continue to boil until honey registers 280 degrees on a candy thermometer (about 10 to 12 minutes).

Line a pan with parchment paper and coat lightly with cooking spray. When the honey reaches temperature, pour it onto your prepared pan and allow to cool on the counter for 20-25 minutes.

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Spray your hands with nonstick spray, and break off about a third of the cooled honey. Begin to pull and stretch the honey, continually folding it and working more air into the taffy.

As you continue to pull and incorporate air into the taffy, it will start to firm up and become lighter in color. Keep doing this for about five minutes, or until taffy has lightened in color from dark amber to tan.

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When taffy is tan and firmed up, roll it into several long thin snakes and place these back on your parchment paper lined pan. Refrigerate pan for 10 minutes, then use a knife coated in cooking spray to cut each taffy roll into one inch long pieces.

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Roll up each piece of taffy in wax paper, twisting the ends to close.Makes 80 pieces.

That’s it — You just made honey taffy!

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Seriously: That’s it, one ingredient candy! Although High School Guy helped out here, his braces prevented him from actually enjoying any of the taffy — this is some seriously sticky stuff. It’s also seriously sweet, but Mr. 9 thought it was… if you’ll pardon the expression… the bee’s knees.

Honey taffy is naturally gluten and dairy free, so a perfect choice for families with food allergies. This is such a fun & simple dessert recipe to make with kids, or to use for gifts!

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Honey Taffy — An Easy One Ingredient Recipe

One ingredient honey taffy is naturally gluten and dairy free, so a perfect choice for families with food allergies. This is such a fun & simple dessert recipe to make with kids, or to use for gifts!

Course Dessert

Cuisine candy

Keyword candy, dessert, honey taffy, taffy

Total Time 1 hour hour 20 minutes minutes

Servings 80

Calories 19kcal

Author Rachel Singer

Ingredients

  • 1 lb real honey (about 1 1/2 cups)

Instructions

  • Bring honey to a boil in an uncovered medium saucepan over medium heat (about 5 to 7 minutes).

  • Continue to boil until honey registers 280 degrees on a candy thermometer (about 10 to 12 minutes).

  • Line a pan with parchment paper and coat lightly with cooking spray.

  • When the honey reaches temperature, pour it onto your prepared pan and allow to cool on the counter for 20-25 minutes.

  • Spray your hands with nonstick spray, and break off about a third of the cooled honey.

  • Begin to pull and stretch the honey, continually folding it and working more air into the taffy.

  • As you continue to pull and incorporate air into the taffy, it will start to firm up and become lighter in color.

  • Keep doing this for about five minutes, or until taffy has lightened in color from dark amber to tan.

  • When taffy is tan and firmed up, roll it into several long thin snakes and place these back on your parchment paper lined pan.

  • Refrigerate pan for 10 minutes, then use a knife coated in cooking spray to cut each taffy roll into one inch long pieces.

  • Roll up each piece of taffy in wax paper, twisting the ends to close.

Nutrition

Serving: 1piece | Calories: 19kcal | Carbohydrates: 5g | Sugar: 5g

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FAQs

What are the ingredients in bit o honey? ›

Corn Syrup, Sugar, Nonfat Milk, Hydrogenated Coconut Oil, Almonds (Almonds, Safflower and/or Sunflower and/or Canola Oil), Honey, Salt, Egg Whites, Natural Flavor. Contains milk, almonds, and eggs. May contain other tree nuts, peanuts, and soy.

What is salt water taffy ingredients? ›

Saltwater taffy ingredients are fairly simple. The candy is made from sugar, cornstarch, corn syrup, glycerine, butter, water, and salt. Other saltwater taffy ingredients can include food coloring and natural or artificial flavorings, especially fruit flavors.

What does cornstarch do in taffy? ›

Why do I add cornstarch? The addition of cornstarch (called cornflour in British recipes) helps give the taffy a smooth texture. Why do I add corn syrup? Corn syrup acts as an "interfering agent" in this and many other candy recipes.

What's in taffy candy? ›

Ingredients. Salt water taffy is composed of sugar, cornstarch, corn syrup, glycerine, water, butter, salt, natural and/or artificial flavor, and food color.

When did they stop making Bit-O-Honey? ›

If you love this honey-flavored classic, you're in luck – because it's still around today! The candy has changed hands multiple times since the 60s, but it's now produced by Spangler Candy Company – the same company that saved Necco Wafers from being discontinued!

What is the flavor of the Bit-O-Honey? ›

With its natural ingredients of real honey and roasted almonds bits, Bit-O-Honey is a great fit for snackers looking for something on the lighter side. It's the perfect burst of subtle sweetness to serve as a little fix to help get through the mundane moments of the everyday.

Why is my taffy so hard? ›

If our taffy feels hard, it is most likely because it is cold; try holding the taffy snugly in the palm of your hand for a few moments, the warmth should soften it right up!

How long does homemade taffy last? ›

Does salt water taffy expire? Yes, taffy can go bad and generally expires six months after purchase. Homemade taffy expires even sooner and only lasts 3-7 days.

What makes taffy chewy? ›

Taffy is known for being pulled

It is pulled and then folded in half, until it is extremely stretchy. This does have a purpose, and that purpose is to add air bubbles in the candy. It makes it chewier, and lighter to eat. In fact, taffy is already pretty difficult to chew, but this makes it a bit easier.

What does baking soda do in taffy? ›

Try adding 1/8 teaspoon of baking soda before pouring out the syrup. This will create many tiny bubbles that should result in a lighter, chewier texture. Try twisting together taffy ropes of different colors or flavors for fun new combinations.

Is there a difference between taffy and toffee? ›

Is toffee the same as taffy? Taffy is in no way, shape, or form toffee. Taffy describes chewy fruit candies, whereas toffee is closer to caramel.

Are Tootsie Rolls taffy? ›

Tootsie Roll (/ˈtʊtsi/) is a chocolate-flavored candy that has been manufactured in the United States since 1907. The candy has qualities similar to both caramels and taffy without being exactly either confection. The manufacturer, Tootsie Roll Industries, is based in Chicago, Illinois.

What is taffy called in England? ›

In Canada and the USA, taffy is most often called either taffy or fruit chews. In most of the UK and Ireland, it's never taffy — only chews or fruit chews. In Australia and New Zealand, toffee seems to be the frontrunner.

Is bit of honey good for you? ›

Honey contains antioxidants such as phenolic acid and flavonoids, which make it a slightly better choice than sugar, but both should be consumed in moderation, says Elisabetta Politi, a clinical dietitian at the Duke Lifestyle and Weight Management Center in Durham, North Carolina.

What is the difference between Mary Jane and Bit-O-Honey? ›

So, at first glance, Mary Janes and Bit-O-Honey may seem very much alike, but in the end their textures are considerably different. Of course the flavors are different as well. Almonds and honey for Bit-O-Honey versus peanuts and molasses for Mary Jane. Both are classic favorites with age-old appeal.

How much sugar is in a Bit-O-Honey candy? ›

Candies, NESTLE, BIT-O'-HONEY Candy Chews, 1 pieces
Protein (g)0.84
Sugars, total (g)19
Fiber, total dietary (g)0
Calcium, Ca (mg)20
Iron, Fe (mg)0.12
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Did Bit-O-Honey change their recipe? ›

We did not change the recipe for Bit-O-Honey. There was nothing about the flavor that we changed. But we made some investments in the equipment to allow us to make it more consistently, and also make it just a little bit softer than what it had been in the past, and I'll get to that softness attribute here in a minute.

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