The Sanders and Morley Candy Makers factory in Clinton Township, MI does its own molding. The candy maker buys its own plastic molds and can create from a little, square piece of chocolate a five-pound Easter bunny, explains Ron Rapson, the company’s president. And recently, he got to experience that technique first hand.
“We had a project with Macy’s nationwide where we molded snowmen. It was a two-and-a-half-foot tall snowman, and it weighed five pounds. And we molded 18,000 of those, one by one. It was such a big project that the team needed a little help, so the entire management group was down there helping. I was probably the slowest one, but I did help,” he recalls with a laugh.