Creating Quality Confections with Heidi

Send us Fan MailI had the pleasure to chat with Heidi, Senior Business Development Manager at LorAnn Oils, a maker of flavouring, essential oils and specialty ingredients for bakers and candy makers. Heidi's expertise, both personal and professional, on baking and making candy, is evident. If you enjoy infusing candy, gummies or baked goods, you'll want to listen to this episode!LorAnn Oils - since 1962LorAnn Oils Gummy Mix - unflavoured, uncoloured - make them your ownEffortless Infused Gummies episodePure Biologix Terpenes - cannabis derivedHeidi's tips read through the recipepre-measure your ingredients so they're ready when you're needing to move quickly burned/sticky candy - always temperature related - use a thermometerchocolate + terpenes make a great duo, chocolate offsets the grassy notes of the cannabis/terpenescherry + amaretto + chocolate make great flavour pairingsbusiness idea - one infused candy in a bag, along with a bunch of non-infused candyCandy Thermometer on AmazonGummy Mix Troubleshooting mix well when stirring your candy mixcoat your hands in a neutral oil to avoid gummies sticking to you when popping out of molds melt gelatine in microwave to make sure it's fully incorporatedyou can put molds in the fridge for an hour before popping them out to cureRecipe development - have a core foundational recipes that you can modifyDon't use your infusions in experimental recipes!Using LorAnn bakery emulsions swap out vanilla with a LorAnn bakery emulsionsvanilla can boost a flavourcut vanilla in half and then use bakery emulsion at the amount called for in the recipeSuggested Usage Guide for LorAnn Oils productsFind LorAnn Oils at a trade/consumer show, conference, expo near youWhere to buy outside of the USAGet your free starter edition of the Dose Diary, a fillable pdf and stop guessing and start knowing. Start Tracking. Ask a question for the upcoming Listener Q&A HERE or send an email to [email protected] the show Visit the website for full show notes, free dosing calculator, quiz, recipes and more.