So i repeated the recipe, this time with glucose syrup. Funnily enough, the ingredients in glucose syrup is: Corn syrup. Convenient huh? Annoying more like it.
After a day of drying, they cubes still haven't dried; the recipe says it takes an hour or so to cool and harden.
Im beginning to think that the cubes are too thick and will never dry, so some alternatives will need to be thought of.
By pouring the mixture onto a baking tray in little chocolate button sized drops, it would be more convenient to eat, would not last as long so if it's a flavour someone doesn't like then it will be over quickly, and it might ACTUALLY DRY! That was my thought after this experiment.
Despite that, more colours were explored and tested and they turned out well, as well as testing the other two flavours. Citric acid was dissolved into the orange and made it less sweet and a little more sour, making it taste more like orange, which was taking into account what people had said about the previous orange flavour that was tested.
Another interesting process to (which would be rather time consuming but more probable to work) is doing it in layers. Putting a thin layer of mixture at the bottom and allowing it to set, then another layer above etc. until the cube shape is full. This will allow for experimenting into mixing flavours and colours to make a sort of 'licorice all-sorts' kind of blend.
More testing will follow, testing different shapes and sizes which will hopefully allow the glass to dry and turn out to what i have imaged they would.
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