La Confiserie CandyLabs is a fun little candy shop in Montreal, Quebec that does an amazing job creating personalized, old-fashioned hard candies. It is mind boggling how they are able to create such amazing and detailed designs in the center of these teeny, tiny candies. In this video, they are creating a “16” in the center of a heart in the middle of the candy. Layer after layer is flattened and rolled into place to make the overall image appear.
The video is a little long, so if you want to skip to where they start putting it together, go to 3:15, but the whole process is very interesting. While the video lasts for 9 minutes, the actual process takes 3 hours! As you watch the video, you will not only see the candy appearing step-by-step, but you’ll also get a narrative explaining what they are doing. One of the things I found most interesting was how he chopped off the pieces at the end. At first I thought it was odd, but after I thought about it it all made sense. If they cut off the candy pieces with a scissors, like they use during the creation process, the image would have been pinched away. By chopping the pieces with a knife, he is able to get a crisp, clean cut that leaves the inner image intact.
