Digital guide
Sugar Science Download
Why 300 degrees, and why your thermometer is lying.
$8 Instant download
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The five pages that fix most candy apple failures: what each ingredient is actually doing, the four-minute thermometer test, altitude correction, and why humidity beats your recipe.
What you'll get for $8
- Sugar stage table from thread to caramel
- What sugar, water and corn syrup each do
- The boiling-water calibration test
- Altitude correction chart
- Humidity table and what actually helps
- Temperature and conversion reference
Why you'll love it
- Diagnoses the sticky-shell problem for good
- Four minutes of testing saves whole batches
- No equipment beyond a pan of water
Who wrote it
Ashley runs Bad Ash Bakery, where candy apples are the thing people come back for — graduations, team parties, Halloween, baby showers. This is the method she actually uses, including the parts that go wrong.
Refunds. It is a digital file, so it cannot be returned once downloaded. If it is not what you expected, email [email protected] within 14 days and Ashley will refund you.