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How Mike and Ikes Are Made

How Mike and Ikes Are Made

Just Born has been cranking out Mike and Ike candies since 1940. The Food Network’s Unwrapped 2.0 took a tour of their Pennsylvania factory for a look at how the chewy candies are made. They’re produced from sugar, corn syrup, and starch poured into molds, slow-baked, tumbled with colors and flavors, then glazed to a shine.

Freetles Freeze Dried Skittles

Freetles Freeze Dried Skittles
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What happens when you remove all of the moisture from Skittles? Crunchy candy magic, that’s what. Salt City Treats is one of several candy makers selling these tangy-sweet treats that might just convert you from regular Skittles. Though if you get hooked it might be cheaper to buy plain Skittles and your own freeze dryer.

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A Brief History of PEZ

A Brief History of PEZ

Like many people, we enjoy collecting PEZ dispensers. Sure, the candy bricks that come inside them aren’t that exciting, but it’s the characters and dispensing mechanism that makes them fun. PEZ looks back at its own history, and explains how it got its start making peppermints. See also: How PEZ are made.

Swedish Fish Candy Canes

Swedish Fish Candy Canes
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Do you love the fruity flavor of Swedish Fish but want something that lasts longer? Well now you can get that same taste and brilliant red color in candy cane form. Forget boring old peppermint when the holidays roll around, and hand these out instead!

Coca-Cola x Tic Tac

Coca-Cola x Tic Tac

Soft drink maker Coca-Cola has teamed up with mint maker Tic Tac for a limited-edition candy that tastes like the popular soda pop. Each one has a tiny red Coca-Cola logo on it, and their packaging features bold red and white graphics. Keep an eye out for them at local retailers.

Making Gourmet Sour Patch Kids

Making Gourmet Sour Patch Kids

At some point Bon Appétit chef Claire Saffitz will run out of candies and snacks to replicate, but until she figures out how to make us some Nerds, we’re going to keep watching. In this lengthy episode, she takes on the tart, chewy, and sugar-coated treat known as Sour Patch Kids. It was incredibly tricky to get the texture right.

Melt the Rainbow

Melt the Rainbow

If you don’t have a bag of Skittles lying around the house, you’ll want to run out and buy one right now, just so you can try and replicate Dexter See’s video, which shows what happens when you car fully arrange the colorful candies in a circle then pour hot water over them.

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How KitKats Are Made

How KitKats Are Made

Nowhere are KitKat candy bars more popular than they are in Japan. So we can think of no better place to see how the treats are made, then at the Nestlé Japan Kasumigaura factory. After viewing the whole playlist, we wondered if we just watched a Wes Anderson movie.

Making Gourmet Reese’s

Making Gourmet Reese’s

After making everything from gourmet Skittles to handmade Twizzlers, Bon Appétit chef Claire Saffitz turns her attention to one of the most addictive candies ever – Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. Can she get the balance of chocolate and peanut butter just right?

Making a Giant Starburst

Making a Giant Starburst

We love us some cherry and orange Starbursts. We even know where to buy them in bulk. But the guys at Hellthy Junk Food decided to bulk up the fruity candies even more by making a package fit for a giant, and filling it with the delicious, chewy treats.

How Twizzlers Are Made

How Twizzlers Are Made

Some of our favorite candy treats are Twizzlers strawberry and cherry twists. In this excerpt from an episode of Unwrapped, we go inside Hershey’s Twizzlers factory, where machines spurt out seemingly endless red ropes and give them their trademark twisted shape.

How Jelly Beans Are Made

How Jelly Beans Are Made

We’ve been meaning to get to the Jelly Belly factory one of these days to check their operation out in person, but for now, we’re happy watch how the tiny, flavor-packed confections come together in this video from Community Balance.

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Gummy Thanksgiving

Gummy Thanksgiving

To celebrate Thanksgiving, novelty company Vat19 created a feast for serious sugar fiends, highlighted by a 20-pound, 25,000+ calorie gummy turkey, stuffed with cookies and caramel, and sides of cereal marshmallow topped yams, and gummy cranberry sauce.

Gummy Candy Assembly Line

Gummy Candy Assembly Line

We’ve already learned how to make our own gummy candies, but this neat video from Bosch Packaging Technology shows how they’re made in mass quantities. There’s something immensely satisfying about all those gummy bears and worms rolling off the assembly line.

38 Sweet Facts About Candy

38 Sweet Facts About Candy

Looking forward to that bucket of sweets you’re forcing your kid brother and sister collect for you this Halloween? Why not find out some of the truths behind those sugary treats before you pop ’em all down your gullet.

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