A viral TikTok showing how candy canes are made will be the most satisfying video you watch today
- A viral video from Hammond's Candies shows the process of making the company's cherry candy canes.
- Hammond's Candies is a candy-making company based out of Denver, Colorado, that specializes in handmade candy.
- The video shows candy makers cutting, cooling, pulling, and shaping candy, resulting in thick, perfectly-shaped candy canes.
Behind-the-scenes videos - like how paint colors are mixed or an employee sharing Chick-fil-A hacks - often go viral on the video-sharing platform TikTok. The latest is a satisfying video from Hammond's Candies showing how its Cherry Candy Canes are made.
The video was posted by the candy company on December 6 and got over 1.5 million likes and 12.3 million views since it was originally posted. In the video, set to Bobby Helms "Jingle Bell Rock," candy makers go through the process of making the company's Cherry Candy Canes.
From a blob of melted sugar, the candy is cut, colored, cooled, pulled, and eventually individually shaped into Hammond's signature candy canes. The cherry variety depicted in this video is sold online in packs of six for $17.95. They're also available for purchase in packs of 12 and 48, which cost $31.95 and $124.95, respectively.
"Treat yo'elf this Christmas with our Cherry Candy Canes," the caption on the video reads. In the comments of the video, the Hammond's Candies account said that all of the candy canes are about 6 inches tall and that they're all handmade.
As Hammond's Manufacturing Operations Manager Kammy Stucker told Insider in 2019, the factory's candy starts the candy-making process by cooking sugar, water, and corn syrup in a copper pot before cooking it on a steel cooling table. From there, color, design, and the eventual formation of the candy canes follows.
According to the product listing on Hammond's website, the cherry candy canes depicted in this video are both gluten-free and Kosher and are manufactured in a facility that also processes egg, milk, mustard, peanuts, sesame, soy, sulfites, tree nuts, and wheat. There's doesn't appear to be a nutritional listing on the company's website specifically for these cherry candy canes, although there are listings for both the company's organic cherry candy canes and chocolate-filled cherry candy canes.
Hammond's Candies, founded in 1913, operates out of Denver, CO. Everything the company sells is handmade, Insider's Joe Avella and Conner Blake reported, including approximately 10 million "hand-[crooked]" candy canes per year, according to Hammond's President and CEO Andrew Schuman.
If you're hooked on the candy-making process, you can watch plenty of other videos on Hammond's Candies' TikTok account that show off the creation of candy canes, ribbon candies, watermelon hard candies, lollipops, and more.