Explore chemistry through the making of this delicate, yet crunchy toffee confection. Sponge candy, a delicate, yet crunchy toffee confection covered in chocolate, is perhaps the sweetest way to ...

Growing STEM: Malley's Chocolates shares the chemistry behind their most popular sweet treats Go into the kitchen at Malley’s Chocolates to get the scoop of the countless confection they create.

From soft crack to hard ball to cotton candy, you can make a lot of different styles of candy with sucrose. Have you ever wondered about the science and chemical reactions that occur when making your ...

Join us as Rich Hartel returns to dive deeper in to the chemistry of your favorite sweet treats! Learn how not all caramels and gummies are created equally and learn what candy corn is actually made ...

New edible models of proteins could spark students’ interest in the world of chemistry, especially students who are blind.

Oberlin High School Chemistry teacher Terra Burnette thought outside the box in early March as she brought in an interesting item to help with a chemistry lesson: M&M’s candies. “As a way to ad… ...

Fortunately, a solid understanding of the delicate chemistry involved — and a lot of practice — can turn anyone into a studied tempering master. What is tempered chocolate?

"Everything from bubble milk tea — making the sodium alginate, calcium chloride beads into milk tea — to cooking eggs, and then we are going to end with candy chemistry." ...

Diagram of gummy candy (left) and a microscopic image of commercial gummy candy taken at 1000x magnification with a Cainda digital microscope 1000× Hui (Frankfurt, Germany). (Credit: Suzan Tireki) ...

The candy, a chewy, milky taffy, comes in small cylinders about half the size of a AA battery, wrapped in a white waxed paper. The ingredients are corn starch syrup, cane sugar, butter and milk ...