Candy-Making Calculators & Tools
Free, practical calculators for home candy making — sugar stages, syrup ratios, batch scaling, cooling time, mold quantities, and a calorie estimate.
Sugar Stage Temperature Guide
Turn a thermometer reading into its cold-water-test stage — thread, soft ball, firm ball, hard ball, soft crack, hard crack, or caramelization — plus what it's used for.
Syrup Ratio Calculator
Work out sugar and water quantities for a target sugar syrup ratio, from a thin 1:1 simple syrup to a 3:1 rock-candy syrup, plus the approximate sugar concentration.
Batch Scaling Calculator
Resize a whole recipe's ingredient list from its original yield to any target yield, with every ingredient scaled by the same factor.
Cooling Time Calculator
Estimate how long a poured batch takes to cool to a target temperature using Newton's law of cooling and your batch's thickness.
Mold Quantity Calculator
Work out how many pieces a batch yields, how many mold trays you'll need, and how much batch is left over.
Calorie Estimate Calculator
Get a rough per-piece calorie estimate for a batch from typical ingredient values — a planning estimate, not nutrition or health advice.