I have wanted to post this quick and easy recipe for months now. Ever since our Minecraft party I've had numerous requests for how to make "Redstone" candy. For those that are Minecraft illiterate, "Redstone" is an ore in the Minecraft game that is sparkly and a little bit sparky. It is used to create circuits that can control levers, doors, switches and tons of other elaborate things. For our party I wanted to make a candy that had a little kick to it just like Redstone.
My kids love Minecraft the video game. They play it together and separately and sometimes with me. I'm secretly a Minecraft junky too (shh, don't tell). When they aren't playing it they like to pretend they are in the game and our house turns into a mining/ building/ construction zone. This is why I wasn't the least bit surprised when Myles and Marina both asked for a Minecraft birthday party. I actually got a little bit excited because this is something I'm pretty familiar with and I knew we could make it really fun.
