Preparation

1. break the coconuts and take out the coconut meat
2. Remove the dark skin from the coconut meat
3. Shred the coconut meat
4. In a pot, put the 2 cup of water on medium to high heat and add the rose essence and the vanilla extract
5. Keep stirring the mix until the water starts to crystalize
6. As soon as the sugar mixture start to crystalize slowly pour the shredded coconut into the cooking sugar water.
7. Keep stirring until the mixture becomes thick.
8. After having the thickness desired lower the heat on the pot.
9. With a wooden spoon, scope out the mixture in desired quantity and put them on a baking pan and let it cool down.

Coloring Hints :

• To change color of candy from white to any other color, add food coloring to mixture before adding coconut
• For dark brown coloring, leave the skin on the coconut meat before shredding and use brown sugar instread of regular sugar.

Candy Thickness :

• If you desire to make bigger and harder candies, use 2 lbs of sugar instead of 1 lb

Water start to Crystalize :

• To know if water started to crystalize, you can use a spoon and takesome of the sugar water and drip it into a  water cup. If the water takes a little bit to drop from the spoon and took a little bit to desolve in the cup, mean the water started to crystalize and is ready to pour the coconut.