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Kentucky Cream Candy
Kentucky pulled candy of cooked sugar and cream, hand-pulled until pale and left to cream overnight.
About Kentucky Cream Candy
Kentucky Cream Candy is a regional pulled confection made by cooking sugar with cream and then stretching the cooled mass by hand. This profile follows a vanilla-scented version poured onto buttered marble, pulled until it loses its gloss and rested overnight.
Its flavour is intensely sweet and milky, with vanilla softening the cooked-sugar edge and a small amount of salt sharpening the cream. Butter from the prepared work surface adds a faint extra dairy richness.
Freshly pulled candy forms pale satin-like ropes that are cut into small irregular pieces. After resting, the exterior becomes dry and delicate while the centre develops the fine, melt-away creaminess associated with the candy.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Milk.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Kentucky Cream Candy
Kentucky Vanilla Cream Pull Candy.
- Granulated sugarCandy structure and sweetness
- SaltFlavour balance
- Boiling waterSugar-dissolving liquid
- Heavy whipping creamMilky richness and creamy texture
- Pure vanillaVanilla aroma
- ButterWork-surface release and light dairy richness
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Granulated sugar:
- Salt:
- Boiling water:
- Heavy whipping cream:
- Pure vanilla: . The source's pure vanilla is routed to the catalogue vanilla-extract guide
- Butter: . The source uses butter on the marble slab, where it contacts the candy
Origins & food traditions
Kentucky recipe writer Cindy Gibbs supplies the complete cream-pull candy selected here, using sugar, salt, water, heavy cream and vanilla on a buttered marble slab, followed by hand pulling and an overnight rest. Food historian Dann Woellert independently describes Kentucky cream pull candy as a regional confection based on heavy cream, sugar and vanilla, cooked to candy stage, pulled into a shiny rope, cut and rested overnight to cream.
Countries
- United States
Cuisines & regions
- Kentucky Cuisine
- Southern United States Cuisine
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.