Food Network Magazine - (12)December 2020

in the know

sugar rushThe initial candy order for the show included

more than 150 types of sweets, weighing more than 650 pounds!

In the mix: giant lollipops, gumdrops, sprinkles, peppermints,

caramels, gumballs and blocks of chocolate.

seeing is

believing

The competitors

“freaked out” when

they walked onto the

set, says Kristin of

the 20 sugar and cake

artists on the show.

“Seeing it for the

first time, one of the

competitors started

crying, then laughing.

She couldn’t believe it.”

ood Network takes its competitions

seriously, but the newest baking

show, Candy Land, is all fun and

games: The network teamed up with

Hasbro, the company that makes

Candy Land, to create life-size edible

replicas of the board game’s iconic

lands including Gumdrop Mountains,

Peppermint Forest and Lollipop Woods.

Competitors create cakes inspired by each

spot—and they pull their ingredients

directly from the set! Filming a show like

this was a dream come true, says host

Kristin Chenoweth, but it also came with

challenges: An actual chocolate river

flowed through Chocolate Mountain, “and

I may or may not have stepped in it...

in Manolo Blahnik heels,” she says.

Here’s how the show came together.

—Jessica Dodell-Feder

Food Network’s newest baking competition,

Candy Land, is a real-life version of the game—

and the set is totally edible! Host Kristin

Chenoweth

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