Homemade Lollipops Fundraising

Make homemade suckers and sell them for your next fundraising event.  With a relatively small investment in ingredients, combined with a little teamwork and fun in the kitchen you can make and sell hundreds of handmade lollipops. The cost of materials for making 300 lollipops (including sugar, corn syrup, molds, flavoring, food coloring, sticks, sucker bags and twist ties) will be about $40.  Sell them for $.75 each and your profit will be $185.

Lollipop Recipe:
1 3/4 cups granulated sugar
1 1/2 cups light corn syrup
1 cup water
2 teaspoons candy flavoring oil, any flavor
1/4 teaspoon liquid food coloring (any color)
lollipop molds - any shape
lollipop sticks
sucker bags
twist ties

Prepare molds by lightly spraying with non-stick cooking spray and inserting sucker sticks.  In a large saucepan, mix together sugar, corn syrup and water.  Stir over medium heat until sugar dissolves.  Bring mixture to a boil without stirring.  When syrup temperature reaches 260 degrees F., add color.  Do not stir; boiling action will incorporate color into syrup. Remove from heat at 300 degrees F. or when drops of syrup from hard, brittle threads in cold water.  After boiling action ceases, add flavoring oil and stir.  Pour syrup into lightly oiled lollipop molds and allow to cool at room temperature (do not refrigerate) .  Remove from molds and wrap in individual plastic sucker bags and tie with a twist tie.  Depending on mold size, this recipe will make about 30 - 40 suckers.

This idea comes from a website called Do It Yourself Fundraising and you can find their website here