Candy Time

Everyone who's older than six knows you can make candy easily. I mean, all you have to do is mix water and sugar and like two flavors. It's easy. I've seen my mom do it. All she did was get out a spoon and pour some liquid brown sugar stuff into it, then melt some other stuff in a pan, and...I had the recipe. How hard could it be?

So when my teacher told us we had to make some food or something for a project my class was doing, I was all over it and ready to start some candy. The youngest kid in my class, who is only eight, wanted to help, but he's too little, so I got a couple of my friends (they're nine) and started. We had the little kitchen down the hall, and we could do whatever we wanted, as long as the teacher said we could. I showed her my recipe, and she said to go ahead, it was easy. So we walked into the kitchen, ready to start making candy.

The stove was the first really hard part. It wouldn't turn on. So we just used the microwave and put a couple things in there at the same time. The teacher was watching other kids- and they were all making a mess- so we pretty much could do whatever. So we did.

The next hardest part was figuring out how much was a tsp. I mean, that's not very good instructions. How are we supposed to know what a tsp is? How does anyone know? So we just poured some in until we thought it looked good.

The next part was shaping it. It was really hot, too- it had been in the microwave for like twenty minutes. We finally got it cooled down a little bit and tried to make shapes or something with it, but it was really hard. I mean rock solid. So we just got out Mike's (that's my friend) rock for show and tell and used that to break the candy into little pieces. It looked pretty tasty, but I didn't want to be selfish, so we took a big chunk to our teacher. She didn't really like it, but I don't think she has much of a sweet tooth, so we just took it back to the room and put it on the display table. We disguised it as edible decoration.

I think people liked it. It was completely gone after we presented the project.

The trash bag was really heavy when we took it out later. There must have been a lot of people who ate our candy and then were too full for other food. I guess they just threw away all the other stuff.