Smarties - Manufacturing Process

Manufacturing Process

1. The Smartie making process starts with the melted chocolate and all the things we don't tell you about...
2. The melted chocolate is poured between a pair of very cold metal roller moulds. As the two rollers come together, they form a sheet of chocolate beans joined together with a thin chocolate web.
3. This chocolate bean sheet is moved along a conveyor belt to cool and harden.
4. Once cooled the unwanted chocolate around the edge of the bean is removed, in a de-webbing drum. The excess chocolate that is taken off is melted down and used again.
5. The resulting beans are then passed through another rotating drum. This is a smoothing drum, and removes the rough edges from the beans.
6. The beans are then placed in large rotating drums and their coating is sprayed on. The first coat is the soft coat, (a mixture of flour, starch and syrup) and is built up gradually. The second hard coat of syrup is then built up in the same way. Finally the colour and wax are added.