A main hard part is the creative lining of the liquorice locks.
Another difficulty is that all 6 colours are present, which makes it difficult to create special candies and combinations.
Stars
Stars
Score
20,000
40,000
80,000
Strategy
Like level 39 and level 41, try focusing on removing the liquorice locks then bring the ingredients down.
Try to use striped candy + wrapped candy combinations in the lanes the ingredients are in for a quick win. In fact, any combination is helpful here.
Two colour bomb + colour bomb combinations will help you finish this level.
Getting Three Stars (For Daring Players)
Difficulty: Very Easy
Six colours make it hard to create special candies. Despite this, there are 50 moves available.
The ingredients are worth 40,000 points (4 ingredients x 10,000 points per ingredient = 40,000 points). Hence, dropping the ingredients alone leaves the player having to earn an additional 40,000 points.
The liquorice locks make it hard to create special candies. Once they are cleared though, there should be more space to create special candies.
The bottom most liquorice locks will block the path for the ingredients to drop down. Though a strategically wrapped candy + striped candy combination will take them all out in one move, that combination is hard to make with six colours.
There are 50 moves available. Hence, there should be enough moves available to create special candies, drop the ingredients and have enough moves left for sugar crush.
The three star target score is low. Most runs of passing the level will end up with at least 100,000 points.
Trivia
It is impossible to get less than two stars in this level. This is because the ingredients give the player 40,000 points.