Looking for a good sour candy or popsicle recipe?

Let me start this off by saying I'm a BIG sour candy fan. I love sour candy so much, and the more sour, the better.

One thing I also love are the sour warheads popsicle, though I've never seen them in stores, and ice cream trucks only sometimes carry them.

Since I can't always go out and get my own sour candy, I figured I might as well make my own candy and popsicles. We bought all the ingredients listed on the warheads popsicle packaging - sugar, corn syrup, candy flavorings, malic acid, citric acid, guar gum, xanthan gum, basically everything on the label, and I'm figuring I can use a bunch of this stuff to help me make some candy as well.

However, I don't really know anything about making candy or popsicles. How much of these ingredients do I add? When do I add what? Why is this so confusing??

Every single recipe I can find for popsicles uses fruit, not sugar and flavoring. I don't want to make fruit popsicles, they won't be the same, but I don't know what the procedure is for making popsicles that use those and will be soft when you bite into them (I'm assuming with the use of gums). And every sour candy recipe is similar, in the end they just dip the candy in sour sugar and call it a day. What if I want the candies themselves to be sour, not just sour-coated?

Any help or direction would be appreciated!

bon appetit