I am making a gingerbread piece for a competition. There is a stained glass cross on one of the walls. When I baked the gingerbread, I put crushed blue jolly ranchers in the cross hole to achieve the blue stained glass look. When it came out, the window was green. So, I was wondering if someone who understood the chemistry of what happened could tell me why it turned green. I thought maybe it mixed with the gingerbread. But, I didn't have a thick enough window, so I melted jolly ranchers to spoon into the window. Those melted jolly ranchers turned green, too. Why?
Thanks for the help!

The only way for blue to become green is to add yellow...gingerbread is yellow enough to make that happen, imo.

Don't green and yellow make blue maybe that is why you are getting green

Right, which is what I thought. But, when I melted the second set, they were in a seperate bowl, not touching the gingerbread. I melted them in the microwave. When they came out of the microwave, they were green. What would I have to melt to get blue?

is it possible that the blue jolly rancher may have been overcooked and burned a little? if it got a little burned/brownish, that might account for the greenish tint?

the only think I could think of to get blue "glass" would be to bake your pieces first and then make a clear melted sugar and add blue to that...

that makes little sense to me time for bed =D

When I was making the watter (hard rock candy) for my pirate ship on my gallery that happen to me, I made the firs batch and it was blue but after that I use the same pot to make the 2nd. and I burn it a little bit and it was green so I got to colors water but you know what it look so nice for the efect that I want to give to the water, so I got an fortunate little accident . So maybe yours was overcooked like Atomikjen said.

When sugar carmelizes, it turns a golden brown color. That golden color plus blue would make a nice green color. I don't know if you melt the Jolly Ranchers very slowly, whether you can keep it at a low enough temperature to prevent any color change.

Have you tried to add blue coloring to it?

I baked the jolly ranchers at 375 for 10 minutes and when I melted them the second time, I did it in the microwave for 30 seconds. So, I guess it cooked to fast. That would make sense that the sugar carmelized and that is why it is green. It's not detrimental, it's just not what I wanted. But, it will still work. I'm thinking of seeing if I can paint blue candy color on it and if that will do something to help.