The Birth of the Candy Cane or as some like to call it the Peppermint Stick!

The Birth of the Candy Cane or as some like to call it the Peppermint Stick!

The origin of the candy cane goes back over 350 years, when candy-makers both professional and amateur were making hard sugar sticks. The original candy was straight and completely white in color. The first historical reference to the familiar cane shape goes back to 1670, when the choirmaster at the Cologne Cathedral in Germany, bent…