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15 Fun, Easy Homemade Lollipop Recipes

It’s easy to make suckers at home, and sometimes you can even let kids help. These homemade lollipop recipes make it simple to get started.

Another reason to make your own lollipops is that most commercially sold lollipops contain corn syrup and refined sugar, but you don’t have to use those ingredients in your home recipes. Some of these recipes do use it – it’s up to you.

Swirled lollipops made from homemade lollipop recipe

Making lollipops is also fun. You can get creative with the flavors and the look of them. And it’s one of the most easy dessert recipes ever.

And you can choose whatever form of sugar or artificial sweetener you want to use, or make your own unique flavors. You can put your own twist on any of these recipes to create something really unique.

Learn How to Make Lollipops

It’s so easy once you know how to make lollipops. The basic technique with any lollipop recipe is: pour the melted liquid into a mold, stick a lollipop stick in it, and wait for it to cool. Then you’ve got your lollipop.

You’re going to need a candy thermometer and some candy molds. The best type of mold to use is a silicone mold for candy. They’re flexible, so it’s easy to pop the cooled lollipop out of the mold. And they’re non-stick without having any weird chemicals.

They also work well with cake pops, which you can make from any cake recipe, like our red velvet cake recipe.

Silicon molds for homemade lollipops

But you don’t have to have a mold. You can make wonky lollipops instead – no mold, totally freeform. Kids actually enjoy getting to shape their own lollipops.

Wonky homemade lollipops in random shapes

You’ll need some lollipop sticks for making these. We try to pick the more environmentally friendly choice for things like this.

In the past, you could go with either the plastic, non-biodegradable, but reusable ones, or the paper ones that aren’t reusable and involve cutting down trees, but are biodegradable.

But there’s a new choice: bamboo lollipop sticks. They’re not reusable like plastic, but they’re biodegradable like paper, and they come from a more renewable source of wood.

Red glossy heart-shaped lollipop

An Easy Corn Syrup Substitute

Here’s some good news: you can take any lollipop recipe that calls for corn syrup and substitute any of the following instead.

  • Golden syrup is popular in the UK but rare to see in stores in the US. It will work in as a one-to-one substitute in hard candy making.
  • Brown rice syrup is another one-to-one substitute that will work in hard candy.
Wonky homemade lollipops with coffee beans

Homemade Lollipop Recipes

These are the very simple to make homemade lollipop recipes. They're lots of fun, and kids love them.