Heart Shaped Lollipops

We borrowed the recipe from the culinary book for kids “Small Cookie“, of publishing house “Ribka”

Ingredients:

1 tea cup sugar
5 tablespoons of syrup of raspberry compote (you can also have cherry or sour cherry compote)
5 tablespoons of water
1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar

Procedure:

Mix the sugar, the fruit syrup, the water and the vinegar in a small pot at at medium high temperature.
Stir the mixture until the sugar dissolves and everything starts boiling.
You should boil it about 10 minutes.
To make sure that is ready, do a test. In a cup of cold water put a few drops of the hot mixture. At the bottom of the cup there should be hard drops.

Use a large spoon and pour the mixture on cooking paper. Shape the mixture into heart. Put wooden sticks, making sure they are well-covered by the mixture.
You can cover the heart-shaped mixture with colored sugar sticks. Leave to the lollipops to cool.
If you want to give them as a present, wrap them in cellophane bags and tie them with ribbons.