Old-Time Penny Candy Buttons recipe

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Ingredients

2 12x16 pieces of parchment paper
2 cups confectioners' sugar
4 ½ teaspoons meringue powder
¼ cup water
¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
1 drop pink, yellow, and blue food coloring paste, or as needed

Nutrition Info

104.4 calories
carbohydrate: 26 g
cholesterol: : -
fat: : -
fiber: : -
protein: 0.4 g
saturatedFat: : -
servingSize: -
sodium: 6.4 mg
sugar: 24.7 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Cut 10 strips of parchment paper, 2-inches wide by 16-inches long.

  2. Sift confectioner's sugar and meringue powder together in a bowl, beat in water and vanilla extract until smooth.

  3. Divide sugar mixture evenly into three bowls, beat in small amounts of different food coloring paste into each bowl until desired color has been achieved.

  4. Place a #3 pastry tip into end of pastry bag, fill with one of the tinted sugar mixtures. Pipe buttons about the size of a penny onto parchment strips, 3 rows across. Repeat with remaining tinted sugar mixtures. Dry until buttons are hard, about 8 hours.

Recipe Yield

10 servings

Recipe Note

While using royal icing, I saw how it peeled off parchment paper just like the candy buttons from the 1950's. This inspired me to give candy buttons a try. As a child it was a good buy for a penny, and quantity was important.

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