Tour our facilities!

Touring our Facilities

If you ever find yourself passing through Northern Indiana, please feel free to stop by our factory. Guests are welcome to take a tour of our candy-making operation and watch the candy-making process in a real life setting. The best times to stop by are in the morning, Monday thru Thursday.

Going into the kitchen area, visitors will see cookers in operation. The photos above show a few of the steps involved in creating our reputable hard candies. Years of experience tell the candymakers exactly when to pour the hot sugar mixture which will soon become hard candy. With a few skillful motions, a stripe is added to the candy which becomes a fine line on each finished candy. At the end of the line, the hard candy enters a wrapping machine, and if as by magic, come out neatly, one by one, wrapped in cellophane and ready for you.

Chocolates are the crowning glory of the operation. Using a huge machine called an enrober, the run of chocolates is a fascinating thing to watch, as the carefully controlled, aromatic coating surrounds the creams going down the conveyor belt. At stations along the way, lighted control boards, pulleys, and chains hint of the intricacy of the equipment. Chocolate is made under strict humidity and temperature control, assuring that no stray flavors or moisture enters the batch.

Even with all the computer controlled machinery, gears, and chains, there are still many hand processes involved in candymaking. Below, in the first image, workers dip candied orange peel into melted chocolate. Did you ever wonder where those little clever peaks on the top of the chocolates come from? The second image shows how this is done using another hand finishing technique.