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How is 8-Bit Ghost Candy made?

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At Lofty Pursuits, candy-making is a year-round craft. In the almost-12-minute promotional video above, a professional candymaker flavors, mixes, pulls, kneads, and assembles slabs of warm candy into a large log.

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Once it’s pulled into thin rods—the assembled pixel-style design inside the log scales down as it’s pulled—the candymaker chops the cooled, hardened candy into individual bite-sized pieces, revealing the an 8-Bit Ghost.

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