Making candy at Papabubble

I tried to embed the video from the link below, but it seems to be too wide for this site. I encourage you to click on the link and watch the video of two women making candy at the new New York branch of Papabubble. My favorite part is the footage of one of them stretching and pulling the candy over a wall-mounted hook. I never checked out Papabubble in person because I don't love hard sucking candies, and that seems to be all they do. The process sure looks neat, though. The final results look like glass beads but were created by a hands-on process that you just can't use when stretching glass. With its low key attitude, the video is much more in the style of Sesame Street than the Food Network.

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You melt my [conversation] heart

The bloggers over at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories usually make fantastic homemade gadgets. This week for Valentine's Day they went nuts and experimented with candy instead. First they teach readers how to get their own messages onto candy hearts (hint: get the current text off with a Microplane). Next they made an enormous melted candy heart out of smaller hearts (see above). I'm not going to try this at home, but if you've ever wondered what will happen if you wet conversation hearts and put them in the oven at 300°, now's your chance to find out.

Stamp your own messages and Melt my heart