glazed orange slices

These soft and chewy Candied Orange Slices are perfect for garnishing your favorite desserts and drinks or cover them in chocolate for a fun treat!

Candied Orange Slices

sugar

water

orange

Make your simple syrup.  In a 1 quart saucepan, combine sugar and water.  Stir until combined, then heat on medium until mixture reaches approximately 225F. Be sure not to stir the syrup after it boils, since that can cause crystals. 

Pre-boil your orange slices. While the syrup is heating, bring a couple of cups of water to a boil.  Drop the orange slices and boil for two minutes.  After two minutes, remove orange slices to an ice bath to cool.  This step helps to reduce bitterness. 

Boil the orange slices in the simple syrup. When the sugar mixture reaches 225F, add the boiled and cooled citrus slices and adjust the heat to a low boil.  Don’t stir, but you can press down on the slices if they seem to be floating too much.  Turn top slices over occasionally.    

When the syrup reaches 245-250F, take the pan off the heat.  Use a fork to take the slices out one at a time and set them onto a wire rack (ideally) or parchment (second choice).  Let them cool and solidify for 30-60 minutes.   

If you want to save the syrup (at this point, when cooled, it will be a tacky, stretchy solid, not a syrup), add a few tablespoons of water as soon as the slices are removed and stir vigorously to incorporate.  Be careful since the syrup may splatter.  You can reuse the syrup for one more batch of slices (after two it becomes too bitter) or as a simple syrup for drinks or recipes.

Can the simple syrup be saved and re-boiled for a subsequent batch of candied slices?

Orange is my favorite fruit and this is a wonderful, easy, inexpensive candy. Had some oranges on hand nearing their expiration. Put this together while fixing breakfast. Haven't dipped them in dark chocolate yet, but just by themselves the flavor just explodes. Easy to make. Only 3 ingredients without the chocolate. Just enough sweet taste without being rich. Plan to use this regularly as I need it to use up oranges. BTW I used small oranges because I didn't have any clementines and they worked well! Might be because they were not fresh from the store and super juicy.

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