This staple ingredient is a baker’s secret weapon. When I started to work a night shift at a bakery after cooking school, I was humbled by the odd hours. And I was equally humbled by corn syrup.

Narrator: Candy corn isn't just sugar. It's actually made up of several ingredients, including sugar, corn syrup, confectioner's glaze, salt, dextrose, gelatin, sesame oil, artificial flavor ...

But to get it just right, you must have corn syrup and a lot of patience. Why corn syrup? While corn syrup is the key to ...

corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, maize, and corn bran. Instead of corn or vegetable oil, use canola oil. Instead of corn syrup, sweeten with honey, agave, or sugar cane syrup.

The higher the added sugar is on the ingredients list, the more sugar is in the product. Added sugars go by many names, such as brown sugar, corn sweeteners, corn syrup, dextrose, fructose ...