How do candy makers get their candy bars to look like they do? You’ve seen the various type of chocolate candy bars with the unique shapes: The Twix candy bars, The Kit Kats, the Hershey’s Bars with their grid style shape, and many others. First, the chocolatier first mixes up all their ingredients into a big vat. This vat is then poured into a chocolate candy mold where it is solidified after cooling, and then is packaged to be shipped out to a store near you. So if you’ve only bought and eaten the chocolate candy bars without thinking of the hard work that goes into making them, be ready to be educated.
Heat Is Important
The chocolate must first be melted through heat before it can be poured into the chocolate candy molds. This mixture has to be stirred frequently as it’s being heated so that it doesn’t clump up. Simple mixtures, like the ones that Hershey’s uses for their grid style chocolate candy molds are easy to make and pour. They’re consistently the same chocolate throughout the whole candy bar. However, other slightly more complex candy bars require chocolate candy molds that are a little more involved. Take a Kit Kat for instance. The chocolate candy mold must hold the interior crispy wafer part so that the chocolate can be poured around it. For those candy bars with interiors that aren’t made of chocolate, or that have different ingredients, the chocolate candy molds have to be especially made so that they can accommodate these other ingredients.
Cooling
After the heated chocolate mixture is poured into the chocolate candy mold, it is then set aside for cooling and hardening. Once they are cooled, they are put through a machine that will wrap them up in foil or wrapping paper before they are boxed up. Usually there are people supervising this process, making sure that the chocolate candy molds are being poured, cooled and packaged correctly. The automated pouring and packaging of chocolate candy bars these days is so seamless that each candy bar made is identical to every other, with hardly any deformities or misshaped bars.
So the next time you bite into a candy bar, think of the hard work, and the chocolate candy molds that were used to make the candy bar you now hold in your hand. You likely have a whole new appreciation for the making of your favorite chocolate bar.
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