Product Description

The Hard Candy/Sugar Free Cotton Candy Maker transforms your favorite hard candies into fluffy, melt-in-your-mouth cotton candy. For a low-calorie or low-sugar treat, sugar free candies can be used - great for kids or those with dietary restrictions. Simply plug in, turn on, pour yummy candies into the center receptacle, and start spinning colorful and tasty treats. This fanciful product is fun for the whole family and brings out the kid in everyone. People love to collect the delicate webs of cotton candy on their cones while circling the translucent pink bowl. Instantly, gatherings are transformed into carnivals and dessert time into party time! The unit is also compatible with standard cotton candy sugar - expanding the flavor possibilities further. Any flavor, any time! Unit dimension are 11” L x 11”W x 12” H, perfect for countertop use.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1832 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Size: 12.5-in.
• Color: White/Pink
• Brand: Nostalgia Electrics
• Model: PCM-805
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 11.00" h x 12.00" w x 11.00" l, 6.00 pounds

Features

• Uses your favorite brand of hard candy, sugar-free candy or standard cotton candy sugar to spin a delicious treat
• Cotton candy flows quickly as unit heats up
• Translucent, plastic bowl allows the user to easily see each batch being made
• Comes with two plastic cotton candy cones
• Unit breaks down easily for cleaning

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Customer Reviews

Most helpful customer reviews

391 of 396 people found the following review helpful.
Best Flavor Combinations - Plus Which Candies WON'T Work
By Compay
Whether you can enjoy candies with sugar, or are diabetic, here are flavor combos and suggestions plus what you CAN'T use.

First off, here is what WON'T work with this machine:

* Skittles, Lemonheads or Boston Baked Beans
* Hot Tamales or Ike & Mikes
* Gummy Bears or Worms
* Gumballs or Round Candy
* Citrus Slices or Starburst
* Anything chewy, gummy or with too much cream

For best results, use no more than two pieces of candy (so it spins faster), but you can also cut/break candy into halves. One piece of candy on one side of the spinner, and two halves opposite that for better flavor combinations.

Good candy choices include Lifesavers (fruit, Hawaiian Fruit, Fruiteria, butter rum) but not their Mints (won't fluff), Werther's Original & Chocolate Hard Candies, Butterscotch, Cinnamon Discs, Peppermints, and Coffee (but not Nips). Brach's Soda Poppers (Root Beer, 7UP, Dr. Pepper, Orange Crush) wor k great, but only use one candy cut in half or it won't fluff right.

Here's what I've come up with so far:

* Orange Muffin: 1 Butterscoth + 1/2 Cinnamon + 1/2 Orange LS
* Turtle Frappe: 1 Hard Coffee + 1 Werther's Caramel Chocolate
* Raspberry Mocha: 1 Coffee + 1/2 Raspberry + 1/2 Werthers Choc.
* Chocolate Covered Strawberry: Strawberry LS + 1 Werthers Choc.
* Cherry Garcia: 1 Cherry LS + 1/2 Werthers Choc + 1/2 Vanilla
* Candy Apple: 1 Green Apple + 1 Cinnamon Disc

Your cotton candy will be fluffier with sugar-based candy, though sugar-free still works fine. Avoid candies that have too many non-sugar ingredients; heavy creams or actual peanut butter will cause it to not fluff.

For best results, DO NOT stir your cone in a circle around the spinner (like how you would stir a pot of soup). That only works on big machines, you'll be too close to your heat source and some of the candy will burn. Inste ad, do that for just a few seconds to get some fluff on your cone. Then wave the cone side to side a few inches above the spinner, while slowly spinning it in your hand (like the way you twist your fork with spaghetti on it). That twisting will pull fluff towards your cone; you can even raise the cone a few inches every so often to pull more fluffed candy up and out of the bowl. Mostly you want to keep it away from the hot spinner.

This is a really fun product, and you're given many ways to experiment with flavors. Definitely get your hands on one.

175 of 178 people found the following review helpful.
Absolutely SWEET!!!
By Eight Of Eight
My cotton candy maker arrived 6 days ago and I've used it every day since.

I heated it up for about 8 minutes before adding the sugar/candy, and the floss appeared about a minute after that. Since there were a lot of kids lined up to test the results, the two plastic cones that come with it weren't nearly enough to go around so we used thin 12" long wooden dowel rods which you can get at a craft store for about 5 cents each.

Before you make your first batch, you may want to watch some clips on making cotton candy on youtube. There is a certain technique to it but once you get the hang of it it's very easy.

We had it running, on and off, for about an hour as we tried different flavors and candies. The motor kept going strong the whole time. Make sure it's on a stable surface because the kids will want to lean in as far as they can to watch it.

It works with both hard candy and the sugar cotton candy mixes like Flossine. We found that it doesn't work as well with the hard candy that's typically pretty sticky, like Jolly Ranchers. The manufacturer also recommends not using round hard candy, like sour balls.

Clean up is a cinch. The metal spinner part and the plastic bowl come off, then you just soak them in hot water for a few minutes and the sugar dissolves.

Definitely the most fun appliance I've ever owned!

113 of 119 people found the following review helpful.
My Pros and cons
By Crazy_Teen
This is an AMAZING cotton candy machine and I'm very satisfied with it; however there are good and bad things about it, such as:
Pro:
-You can also use floss or regular sugar (just use the measuring cup that comes with it, no more than that) and it makes alot more than the hard candy would
-If you use hard candy cotton candy it starts coming out immediately and fast, but if you use sugar you have to wait about a minute before it starts coming out. It makes a big ball in about 1-2 minutes
-It heats up quick and makes little to no noise and doesn't vibrate around like other cotton candy machines
-It takes only 3-5 minutes, at most, to set all of it up
-Sugar and floss doesn't fly out everywhere
-comes with two reusable cones
-Fairly easy to clean up
Cons:
-the hard candy(I used jolly ranchers) doesn't work so well.The cotton candy isn't fluffy and I believe it tastes awful
-Instruction booklet was a bit vague
*Sid e-note: You want to let it cool for a few minutes between batches, and this machine is definitely only for small groups. After you finish using it you want to wash the bowl and top portion quickly because the sugar sticks there and starts to harden, and keep the disk on for a while because it is hot then soak it in hot water before washing(wash this piece thoroughly!). I hope this was really helpful and I really think this machine is worth the money! However, does anyone know where I can buy floss sugar at a store because I couldn't find it at Walmart, Target, and Food Lion! Your help is appreciated. :)