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Filled, Laminated HardCandyMaking these old-fashioned multilayered hard candies requirespractice and experience to achieve good quality.

Ivan FabryIF Suesswarenberatung

Ivan Fabry pro-vides consultingservices to candycompanies. His50 years of expe-rience in the con-fectionery industryincludes roles asteacher and tech-nical director atZDS Solingen andgeneral managerat Drouven-Fabry.

Figure 1

Producing Filled, Laminated Hard Candy

Filled, laminated hard candies are old-fashioned multilayered candies with a

crunchy texture that are produced byrepeated stretching and folding. The obtainedmultilayered candy is wrapped in a thin, clearor milky sugar mass envelope before beingstamped into individual candies (Figure 1). Toincrease the crunchy texture of the candiesthe sugar mass can be pulled.

The production of filled, laminated can-dies requires extensive experience in candypractice, especially the art of handling ahigh-boiled hot sugar mass. In particular,rapid handling at the different manufac-turing steps is required to avoid any tem-perature variation of the sugar mass andthe filling. Temperature variation leads toa loss of the required plasticity of the sugarmass and the filling. A temperature that istoo low can cause the filled hard candy tobreak, and the filling to burst out.

MANUFACTURING METHODS

Four methods may be applied to producefilled, laminated hard candies:

• The old-fashioned manual method.• The compacting-layering lamination

process.• Coextrusion lamination technology.• The stream-layering lamination process.

In the four methods, to obtain regular, thin,alternated layers of sugar mass and fillingkeyrequirements must be assured.

The sugar mass (Figure 2) must show thefollowing properties:• A uniform plasticity temperature of 80°

to 90°C.• Free of large entrapped air bubbles.• Does not present a hard, glassy crust and

is free of lumps.• Stable against graining.• Does not have a tendency to shrink,

especially when a pulling process has

Figure 2

The Sugar Mass

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