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Honey-ginger candies with lemon and cloves

Name: Honey-ginger candies with lemon and cloves
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: About 30 candies
Cuisine: Slovak
Ingredients: 1/2 cup Water; 1 cup Cane sugar; 1 tbsp Honey; 1 tbsp Lemon juice; 1/2 tsp Ground ginger; 1/4 tsp Cloves (ground); for dusting Powdered sugar

Homemade cane sugar candies with honey, lemon, ginger, and cloves, simmered and spooned onto parchment. Makes about 30 candies.

Slovak cuisine · Translated from Slovak · October 24, 2026

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Recipe at a glance

Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 15–20 min
Total time: 35 min
Servings: About 30 candies
Difficulty: Easy
Cuisine: Slovak

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These homemade honey-ginger candies are made with cane sugar, honey, and lemon juice, flavored with ground ginger and cloves. The ingredients are simmered together over low heat for 15 to 20 minutes, then cooled slightly and dropped by the spoonful onto parchment paper to form small rounds. The finished rounds are dusted with powdered sugar and stored in a sealed container in a cool, dry place. With their ginger and clove aroma, they are a good choice for chilly days, perhaps alongside a cup of tea.

Ingredients

Water 1/2 cup
Cane sugar 1 cup
Honey 1 tbsp
Lemon juice 1 tbsp
Ground ginger 1/2 tsp
Cloves (ground) 1/4 tsp
Powdered sugar for dusting

1 cup = 250 ml (metric cup)

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Instructions

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Combine all the ingredients except the powdered sugar in a pot and simmer over low heat for 15 to 20 minutes. Remove the pot from the heat and let the mixture cool slightly.
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and drop the mixture onto it by the spoonful to form small rounds. Dust with powdered sugar.
Store the finished candies in a sealed container in a cool, dry place.

Tip: If the mixture hardens in the pot before you finish spooning it out, briefly reheat it over low heat. Afterward, soak the pot in hot water to dissolve the hardened sugar.

Nutrition facts

Approximate values per piece, calculated from the ingredients

Energy: 28 kcal
Protein: 0.0 g
Carbohydrates: 7.3 g
of which sugars: 7.2 g
Fat: 0.0 g
of which saturates: 0.0 g
Fiber: 0.0 g
Salt: 0.0 g

Calculated from the raw ingredients, without frying oil. Where an amount is “to taste”, typical amounts are used. Food composition: USDA FoodData Central and product labels.

This recipe was translated from the Slovak original: Medovo-zázvorové cukríky s citrónom a klinčekmi