So then how do they make taffy with the designs in the middle?

They roll the taffy in sheets, put the right strips or whatever design on the sheets then they roll them and then cut them, same princeable as making clay covered pens.

If it’s anything like hard rock candy, they make it in a large log type shape and then stretch it out: the design is made on a large level using different coloured/flavoured ‘sausages’ of the unset candy, stretched into a long, thin sausage-like shape and then chopped up into bite-size pieces and left to set hard.

Here’s a video.

@bluemukaki is correct. They make the designs in a much thicker peice of taffy, and lengthen it to make it thinner. The long thin peice is then cut to size, and retains the design of the original thicker piece.

Yes, the sliced design makes perfect sense.

All I know is that the one time I tried to make taffy it was a disaster.
Ended up with a giant, too sticky to do anything with ball, the size of a human head!
It was an orange taffy that called for OJ…something went dreadfully wrong with the recipe. lol

@Coloma just guessing, but im thinking you didnt heat the taffy enough. I had the same problem once before

@uberbatman

Hmmm..thanks for the tip, yeah, what a sloppy mess! haha

Exactly the same way as the millefiore bead technique