Butter Rum Hard Candies

These creamy and comforting butter rum candies prove that you don’t always need chocolate to satisfy your sweet tooth. Made from familiar ingredients, such as brown sugar, butter, and honey, the secret to this candy’s scrumptious flavor is rum extract. You quickly stir it in after the candy reaches the hard crack stage at 300°F (149°C), and that’s when the magic happens. Somehow word spreads fast whenever I make a batch of these sweets (I’m looking at you, Mom), and I get knocks at the door