This Is How You Craft 16,000 Candy Canes in a Day

It might not be Christmas every day at Kencraft Candy, but it smells like it. At the height of the season, the Utah sweets factory churns out 16,000 candy canes per day. Click through the image gallery above to see how they do it.



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Sixty pounds of corn syrup, 70 pounds of sugar, and 1.5 gallons of water (above) are loaded into a vacuum cooker and simmered at 272 degrees for 20 minutes. Then cooks fold in flavors like peppermint, cranberry, or hot chocolate. They have to work fast because the mix stiffens as it cools.

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