Process for recrystallizing sugar and product thereof

A process for recrystallizing sugar comprising:

• admixing a first quantity of a powdered sugar and a second quantity of an invert sugar to provide a sugar blend, said sugar blend has up to about 3 percent moisture;
• feeding said sugar blend under a positive pressure to an extruding means;
• and
• mixing with a high shear extruding means at about 100 to about 500 RPM said sugar blend at a temperature between about 220.degree. F. and about 300.degree. F. with a residence time in said extruding means of between about 0.5 and about 12 seconds to simultaneously dehydrate and recrystallize said sugar blend upon exiting said extruding means.

A process for recrystallizing sugar with nonsucrose solids comprising:

• blending (a) a refined white sucrose fondant, said refined white sucrose fondant has a granule size distribution such that at least 99 percent pass through a 325 mesh screen, and (b) an adjuvant, said adjuvant includes a nonsucrose solid, said blend of said refined white sucrose fondant and adjuvant has up to about 3 percent moisture and up to 15 percent nonsucrose solids on a dry solids basis;
• feeding said sugar blend under a positive pressure to a cooker-extruder means;
• and
• extruding said sugar lend at a temperature between about 220.degree. F. and 300.degree. F. with residence time in said cooker-extruder means, having a length to diameter ratio of at least 6.5, of between about 0.5 and about 12 seconds and with a discharge pressure between 20 and 1,200 psi.