Inside the Marshmallow Peeps Factory

by Rusty Blazenhoff at 12:52 PM on April 5, 2012

The New York Times recently went inside the Pennsylvania-based family-owned Just Born factory and shot some great images of how their Peeps marshmallow candies are made. The full set of images can be found at The New York Times.

It takes six minutes to make a Peep. Ingredients are mixed, air is injected and the emerging Peep is blasted with a sugar shower and decorated with two tiny eyes made of edible wax.

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