Spun Candy Masterclasses
Having introduced the delight of candy making shows to our wonderful customers, Spun Candy have decided to go one step further by teaching you how to turn boiling sugar into your very own inspired candy.
Our state of the art masterclass venue in Spitalfields is fantastic for a fun daytime activity or evening with friends, celebrations, educational activities, team building and corporate events. In fact we cater for all occasions where you just want candy.
A Sneak Peak into Spun Candy
Come a take a look into our magical East London Candy shop where we handmake hard rock pieces, lollipops, confectionery and many more magical creations!
Watch our candy makers stir up delicious sticky mixtures and expertly turn them into sweets.
Spun Candy is open 9am-6pm Monday to Sunday so come and experience the magic for yourself or take it one step further and book a masterclass to try your own hand at candy making!
Book now at spun-candy.com
A big thank you to the film students of London Metropolitan University for the footage!
Spun Candy Masterclasses
At Spun, we put smiles on people's faces through the art and science of hand making traditional British candy. Let your imagination run wild in our magical Candy Kitchen.
Spun Candy a Candy Shop in London selling handmade Candy
Based in the bustling Spitalfields, Spun Candy presents its delicious handmade confectionery and creative candy masterclasses. From a unique pick and mix, bespoke corporate candy, an unusual thank you gift to personalised wedding favours the opportunities for originality and creativity are endless.
Spun Candy
58 Wentworth Street Spitalfields London UK E1 7AL
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Spun Candy a Candy Shop in London selling handmade Candy
Based in the bustling Spitalfields, Spun Candy presents its delicious handmade confectionery and creative candy masterclasses. From a unique pick and mix, bespoke corporate candy, an unusual thank you gift to personalised wedding favours the opportunities for originality and creativity are endless.
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58 Wentworth Street Spitalfields London UK E1 7AL
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How to make Hard Rock Candy by Spun Yas Mall Team
As seen on screen - Spun on TV
Our Spun store has featured on many hit shows including ITV’s This Morning, BBC's The Apprentice and E4's Made in Chelsea. We also regularly work with some of the biggest brands in the business such as Facebook, British Airways, Chanel, Wimbledon Live, The London Eye, MAC, American Express, Harrods and Selfridges to name a few!
The science behind making confectionery at Spun Candy
Spun Candy Miami Grand Opening!
As artisans of Hard Rock Candy it's a plessure to open our firts store in Miami!
TRIP 4 TWO - SPUN CANDIES
This week our presenters are going to learn how to make candies.
Based in London, Spun Candy creates the perfect mix of traditional British candy making with a stylish & modern twist.
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Watch the lovely bloggers Ally and Jessie get in the festive spirit with a Christmas sweet masterclass at Spun Candy. See how they create classic Christmas candy canes, snowmen and Christmas trees from scratch. Sound easy? Find out here...
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‘Candy Man’ of Spun Candy talks of his success, 12.09.14, Part2, Chrissy B Show
Chrissy speaks to ‘Candy Man’ James Ellender who is the MD of Spun Candy. Here’s some info about them:
“Spun Candy was created in 2013 when we opened our first store in Covent Garden, London during September. Throughout 2014 future stores are due to open and these include our Dubai Mall store, Yas Mall in Abu Dhabi and our master class confectionery store in the City where we teach people to make basic confectionery that includes our lollipops, candy flowers, fudge and honeycomb to name a few.
We have had two pop up stores one at Virgin Atlantic’s Club House for upper class passenger at London Heathrow during December 2013 and one within Selfridges on Oxford street during this summer. We are looking at further concession locations within London at he moment.
Our concept was based on ideas from other candy making processes across the world but at Spun we wanted to explore the full range of confectionery and bring this artisan process back to its British roots. Our candy had to be vegetarian, full of natural fruit flavours and completely handmade.
As concept confectionists we have a team of candy makers that create spectacles from sugar cooked to varying temperatures and adding other premium sourced ingredients. Every one of our candies is handmade by our skilled team who go through an intensive training program to teach them every product line of confectionery that Spun Candy hand produces.
By producing small batches of candy this allows us to offer a huge variety of our ever-changing combination of flavours and designs which are on offer in our in-store pick and mixes. We want to be refreshing with our product lines and keep our customers intrigued with ‘What will we produce next?’. This could be from a variety of our finest fudge through to our lightly sugared Almond Drages.
Our range of personalized hard rock candy has attracted the attention of leading brands worldwide that use our rock pieces to promote and communicate their message or marketing campaign.
Not only do we make confectionery everyday at our stores we also have an in house designer who is one of our directors who leads on visual communications, branding and packaging. This enable us to be over changing in our product lines from not only a confectionery angle but also from the packaging presentation.
Clients come to us when they want a high end premium fun product and have the ability to customize the candy through to the way it is presented with their on branding on the packaging.
About James:
I had worked as a consultant for a confectionery company that I had discovered in South East Asia who were Europe based. I worked with them on establishing a presence in the UK. After a couple of years they took the decision to exit the UK and focus more on franchising elsewhere.
Having understood the business well, learning every part of it I could see the potential with this type of business with some few tweaks, clever branding and a very personalized approach that offers a point of difference I could create a British Confectionery brand that had the potential to explode with products and stores worldwide.
To launch any business and particularly Spun I knew I needed the correct skills, resources, expertise and some money. We started off with four initial shareholders and in August this year we have since taken on investment to accelerate our growth plan. (Infusive notes attached)
Our success has been built on a robust business plan, however having the ability to be flexible and spotting opportunities which include signing the licensing rights to the Rugby World Cup 2015 and Candy Crush confectionery rights for handmade candy globally.
We have worked with some fantastic brands, companies and people in the last twelve, with today 12th September being a one year Birthday.
To take a conceptual idea and within 12 months to grow it into an international brand with stockists in Australia (Oct 2014), Canada (Oct 2014), two stores due opening in the UAE in October and November and further stores due to open in the UK has been an incredible journey.
Our people make our company, not only our staff but our customers that work through our door in Covent Garden or who we work with on our corporate confectionery.
Prior to working on Spun I had a varied career across many sectors and industry, learning and developing my skills in business and commercial sense.”
The Chrissy B Show airs on SKY 203 every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10pm in our cosy living room studio in the heart of London.
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This is how delicious fudge is made – but half of it is pure sugar
Making fudge requires patience and lots and lots of sugar.
We visited London store Spun Candy to learn more about how the delicious confectionery is made.
We made around 3kg of fudge, half of which were sugar and glucose. The mixture also includes evaporated milk, salt, vanilla extract, and butter – again, lots and lots of butter (700 grammes).
In a previous video at Spun Candy, a candy master showed us how to mould boiling sugar syrup into butterfly-shaped rainbow lollipops. Watch it here:
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How to mould boiling sugar syrup into rainbow lollipops
Ever wondered how rocks, lollipops, and other candy sweets are made?
We visited London store Spun Candy for a masterclass on the process.
It all starts with sugar syrup boiled to 155 degrees C. The sugar concentration can be mixed with flavours, colorants, and citric acid.
Batches of colour are separated and modelled on a heated surface.
Candy can be moulded into butterflies, frogs, or flowers to make lollipops.
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GEORGE SAMPSON Launches Battle Strikers!
George Sampson spun into toy shops on 27th July in London to launch a new boys toy called Battle Strikers, recently tipped by Hamleys as the No.1 Toy for Christmas 2009!! Check him out playing the game and meeting fans!
Weird Flavoured British Candy!
I made some crazy flavours of candy & got the British public to try them! Fish & chips, chicken curry & pickled onion flavoured sweets, mmmm.... ➨ Thumbs up? :)
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