Jolly Rancher Rainbow Pops

Jolly Rancher Rainbow Pops

My mom used to make red-hot cinnamon suckers for our birthdays.  She made one for each person in our class at school.  Keep in mind, this was in the 60’s and 70″s when no one cared that your treats were homemade.  Someone’s mom could have been making birthday cookies in a latrine with ten cats.   We wouldn’t have cared.  We lived through that and pounds of raw cookie dough.

Anyway, she made them the old-fashioned way with corn syrup…the high fructose kind, and sugar and cinnamon flavoring.  I remember watching her stir the boiling syrup.  She tested it continually, pouring a bit of it into a glass of cold water until it cracked just right.  When they were ready, she poured them into circles on wax paper.  That’s devotion.  Now, I’ve done it, really.   I have molds and flavorings and everything.  But that was BEFORE.

Now there is such a fun, delicious, cool, and easy way to make a sucker.  A rainbow sucker for St Patrick’s day.

What you need:

  • Jolly Rancher candies
  • Large and small sucker sticks (cake decorating isle in Wal-Mart or a craft store)
  • Parchment paper

Heat the oven to 350 degrees.  Unwrap 15 to 20 Jolly Rancher candies.

Arrange the candies on a parchment lined, heavy cookie sheet.  Make sure you leave enough room between suckers to put the stick on later.   They can be as tall as you like but three to five is best.  You can line them up side by side as well for a fatter sucker.  After you have arranged the flavors you like, carefully place them in the oven.  Cook them for 5 to 51/2 minutes.  Take the candy out.  They are HOT.  Wait 30 seconds or so and push a sucker stick into the sucker and twist it to coat the stick and secure it.  That’s it.  So easy and fun to do.  Make some.  You’ll have a jolly time.

*If your suckers have lost shape in the oven, spray a butter knife with Pam and  reshape them bit.

4 thoughts on “Jolly Rancher Rainbow Pops

  1. I am making these for my moms birthday right now! they look amazing! 🙂 thank you so much! THese are awesome! 🙂

    1. Courtney,
      We’ve made them several times again with the left over candies from our post.
      Thanks for looking and trying them out.

  2. hi lovezillas!!
    how did u make the star shape of the blue and red sucker??
    thanks!
    cheri

    1. We used a cookie cutter sprayed with cooking spray, but truthfully it wasn’t easy to get out. We just tried it while we were making the others. If I had thought about it before, I have sucker molds that work easily. They have a metal clip you fasten before you cook the suckers and then unfasten when they are cool. They can be purchased at any cooking or cooking supply store. You would simply put the jolly ranchers (probably broken up a bit to fit), in the molds for the same amount of time, cool them and then pop them out.
      Good Luck!

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