Willy Wonka made it look like a ton of fun! So, we found a sugar factory of our own, right here in SoFlo! Where you can learn the art of candy-making and eat the candy. Sweet!
Willy Wonka is to chocolate.
What Dovie Katz is to hard candy.
Alex Miranda: “Do you still love candy or is it all work now?”
Dovie Katz: “Oh, I love candy. That’s why I got into it. I love candy. I eat candy, unfortunately, all day.”
Yes, you can really make candy for a living! But you can also do it for fun, at “You Make Candy” in North Miami Beach.
Dovie Katz: “Some people want to use their artistic talents and really make something creative.”
Where today, I’m in a lollipop workshop.
Ruth: “We’re doing sour watermelon today.”
Alex Miranda: “Which color tastes best?”
Ruth: “Haha.”
Alex Miranda: “Do colors have flavors? No, not really.”
Ruth: “No.”
Alex Miranda: “Only in our head, right?”
Ruth: “Haha”
Come as a couple, with friends, or for a party.
Dovie Katz: “We’ve had people here from two to 92.”
Because learning is always sweet.
Dovie Katz: With our confectioners, they get guided on how to do it and it really makes the process fairly simple.”
Alex Miranda: “This looks like a cucumber. That looks like an eggplant. This looks like a carrot and that looks like a gigantic tongue.”
It’s an indulgent experience, but don’t get bratty.
The best they can do is a duck.
Ruth: [Inaudible]
Alex: “This is like on the cruise ships! Oh, my god. It’s gorgeous!
Ruth: Like a cute little.”
Velociraptor, if you ask me. Or there’s this swan? But, back to work!
Ruth: “You’re going to make a nice, round cylinder.”
Alex Miranda: “Oh, it looks like a big hot dog!”
Ruth: “With all the fixings.”
Alex Miranda: “Yes!” [slam]
Ruth: “Perfect. Yeah.”
Alex Miranda: “So this weighs about 10 pounds?”
Alex Miranda: “This is incredible. Wow.”
That log gets stretched.
Ruth: “You create a nice swirl.”
To a dime.
Ruth: “And force the candy stick right into the middle of your lollipop.”
Then shaped into a unicorn, candy cane, fancy mustache that is edible…Whatever your little heart desires. But have some manners.
Alex Miranda: “And then you have a lollipop, right?”
Ruth: “Ha.”
No matter what, you’ll be going home with.
Dovie Katz: “Approximately 10 pounds.”
Alex: “10 pounds of candy.”
Dovie Katz: “Yeah.”
Plus.
Dovie Katz: “A you make candy toothbrush.”
$275 covers four people. Prices go up from there and they also offer custom candy.
Dovie Katz: I have some candy we made for you guys at channel 7. Orange flavor. Different than what we made today.”
Look at that seven up close! Tastes like the best news station in South Florida? Yep! By the way, how’s that swan holding up?
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You Make Candy
633 NE 167th Street, Seventh Floor, North Miami Beach, FL 33162
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