Materials:

• Assorted Hard Candy 
• Baking Sheet
• Parchment paper
• Butter knife
• Mortar and pestle or hammer
• Stainless steel bowl
• Oven mitts

Step 1: Gather assorted hard candies. The candy can be opaque, translucent, or transparent. 

Step 2: Arrange the hard candy onto a parchment-covered baking sheet. Create different sizes and color combinations by placing candies near each other in groups. 

Step 3: Place the baking sheet in a 300°F oven for 8 minutes. 

Step 4: Remove the candy from the oven as soon as it melts. If it stays in the oven too long, the candy will scorch. 

Step 5: Gently slide the parchment paper off of the baking sheet. 

Step 6: While the melted candy is warm, score the melted candy with a butter knife into sections. You do not need to cut all the way through.   

Step 7: After the candy cools down, snap along the lines, turning the hard pieces into shards.

Step 8: Repeat the melting and scoring process with more hard candies until you have enough melted candy to create a bowl design. 

Step 9: Arrange your melted candy shards on the parchment paper. Create a fun design with different colors as large as you can within the baking sheet’s boundaries. 

Step 10: Crush some of the other candy pieces into tiny bits, called “frit.” Use a mortar and pestle or a clean hammer to crush the candy. 

Step 11: Sprinkle the frit over the design arranged on the parchment paper. 

Step 12: Place the baking sheet in the 300°F oven for only 4 minutes this time. As soon as the candy all melts together, promptly remove it!

Step 13: Slump the fused candy over a mold. A metal bowl is a perfect mold. Flip the metal bowl upside down onto the baking sheet and center the fused candy over it. *Slumping is when glass, or in this case, candy, is heated and melted at high temperatures and shaped over a mold.*

Step 14: Place the baking sheet with the mold and candy back into the 300°F oven for 3 minutes and remove after the candy has melted downwards over the bowl.

Step 15: Place the bowl in the freezer to help release the candy from it. You now have a candy bowl! 

Ideas to take your fused & slumped candy pieces to the next level: 

• To satisfy your sweet tooth even more, use the candy bowl to hold ice cream or even more candy.
• Try finding colors that match the season or upcoming holidays.
• Take a trip to the color wheel and use complementary colors for your candy bowl. How do those colors interact after they melt? Do they blend together, or are they still identifiable?
• Add a plate to place the bowl on. Slump the candy with a plate that is a tiny bit shallow.