Hard Candy Ornaments

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i Love this recipe i make it for my church, for cmy family, and for my class maets. im glaed my mom showed me this recipe.

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This was so easy and my family really enjoyed making them. We used a cookie mold (made by Wilton instead of cookie cutters and it worked beautiful. We also nixed the decorating tips and used toothpicks after we removed them from the oven, let them cool just a bit then rub a little of the cooking spray on the toothpick and poke the top of the ornament, hold for a minute and remove. Works like a charm.

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I love this recipe, it was a great idea. It wasn't hard at all, I only messed up one and that was because I let it cook too long but after the first one the others came out great. From now on I will make this every year.

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i want to tell you that this candys r a little hard to do but i finnally master it they really r not bad like the rest of the people say jolly ranchers work the best the take a really good like stain glass to make the hole try a straw spray the straw with pam and then but in its works also i try a wire it works before you but the candy in take a piece of wire make a loop and the part you twist but down in the cookie cutter so the loop is out of the candy and the twist part is in the candy then but you candy and bake you will have a loop out of the cookie cutter to hang it

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I saw Gina, making these on the Neelys and thought it was definitely a unique thing to do so i had to try it.. it was a success..i used a snow flake shape for christmas and used jolly ranchers..it looks pretty cool, but the shape i choose came out looking like austin powers flower power. haha..other then that it came out great..i didnt poke a hole i just let them be as they are. i just wish someone had a tip for the cooking spray cause the candy came out a little greasy so i had to bloch it with a paper towel. great little things though.

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My 9-year-old daughter and I just made these and they turned out great. We followed all the advice -- spread vegetable oil on cookies cutters and sprayed the parchment with cooking spray; scraped away the drippings when they were still hot from the oven; and made holes with an oiled meat thermometer as the shapes cooled. They were slippery little suckers to get out of the cutters but they held their shape. We only had one break -- a star that got dropped -- but a couple additional minutes in the oven made it good as new. My only advice: Don't skimp on the candies. The thicker they are the more sturdy they are.

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I was a little worried about making these for my god-daughters first birthday party after reading the reviews on how hard they were. It turns out that they werent that hard to do. We used jolly ranchers and butterfly and flower metal cookie cutters. After taking them out of the oven we placed one tray in the freezer and one in the fridge to cool faster. When we took them out we broke the extra off while the candy was still on the parchment sheet and in the cookie cutter. We only broke like a piece of the flower petal on two. The only thing is that the parchment stuck to the candy. We didnt put a hole in them, we just placed them in clear candy bags. They turned out really cute!

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i bake A LOT ...........but this did not work very well at all. the candy would not come out of the cookie cutters even after i put non stick cooking spray in the cookie cutters. i wish it would have worked better but i had no luck.

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my girlfriend had a lot of trouble making these .so i got on the computer and read all the comments. i have worked with candy in window cookies . so i compiled all advise and this i my solution .i greased the cookie cutters with crisco.instead of parchment paper use release aluminum foil. i used smaller cutters.not very detailed. cooked as directed,when they came out used a small pairing knife and scraped away the excess around the outside,if able i put it back in the mold.used a meat thermometer to poke the hole in while candy still soft.went around inside edges of cutter with knife to loosen,then let it cool.
if the ornament broke but i could put it back together i put it on wax paper and put it in the microwave for 15 seconds and when through jently pushed it back together,used a twist tie to help put the ribbon /yarn through the hole. a good experience

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Once you get the timing down they come out fantastic. Trim the edges while it is still soft, but let them harden a little bit more before removing them from the mold. Great family project! Don't let the other reviews scare you!