The "artificial" banana flavor is the real flavour of the Gros Michel banana which was the banana of choice until the 1950s. They were slightly bigger than the Cavendish, the modern commercially available banana, with a stronger flavour. This was until a fungal disease called Panama disease struck, which almost wiped out the species because all of the banana plants were spliced identical copies of each other with no genetic variation at all. The same thing is true today for the Cavendish, so another infection will wipe out the modern banana industry.

@ShadamAran

8 ай бұрын

That is ridiculously interesting

I remember watching Steve doing this in the basement. Everyone had to duck going into the starch room. Fun memories. Thanks guys.

@HerculesCandy

11 ай бұрын

Haha a little less ducking these days 😂

@CheapEngineerCrafts

11 ай бұрын

Except for Cooper’s ducks

@monicaglenn7878

10 ай бұрын

Same, I started watching from the basement too! So excited they got a shop! It seems to be a hit, I hope they continue with success!! 🍭 🫕 🍫

@drmcsmackahoe2069

8 ай бұрын

Same, it's so satisfying watching their videos. I'm craving peanut brittle right now lmao

Coop has come so far with dropping those creams. I remember when he started!

Good to see Cooper again.

@JP-bn2kj

11 ай бұрын

Absolutely 💯% agree!

Those B's on the banana 🍌 creams look good. Keep up the good work.

Racecar is the same forward and backwards too. I enjoy watching your candy making. From Longview, Texas new to your channel. Hello 👋 Everyone ☺️

When I was pregnant 41 years ago, my system went so haywire that my senses were affected. I used to like bananas, but ever since then, they're disgusting to me. I've always been a very fussy eater, but the older I get, the fussier I get. On that note, peaches and cream cremes would be so light and lovely in the summer heat. Like the combination of fresh peaches and vanilla ice cream. Yum.

@krose6451

11 ай бұрын

Peaches and cream does sound nice. And thats funny about the pregnancy effects. My mom was the opposite. Her pregnancy made her like things she never liked before.

@christinebenson518

11 ай бұрын

I've never been able to eat bananas. As a baby mom tried the baby cereal with banana and I spat it out. I used to work at a bakery and once I had to make banana chocolate chip muffin batter. I was wretching. A co-worker said I looked green. The weird part is I love the "blue machine" juice smoothies. But I can't taste the banana in them.

I like Cooper's synchronization and time management. How he places the candy in the rover chocolate and wastes no paper, or space. 👍👍👍

Have you tried chocolate transfer sheets? You can have the Hercules “H” printed using cocoa butter in gold on transfer sheet. All you have to do is just rub it on the cooled covered cream.

Scott and Cooper are giving early Craig and Max vibes...

Love the B - great job Cooper!!!

You showed this on your 26th video in the basement thats awesome ive been watching since the basement Ive always been a fan

A Palindrome...Like Race Car

Watching the cream beater and the enrober are very satisfying Terry and Cooper the early morning crew! The starch room in the basement was so tiny

We will always support you all. Keep working hard

@HerculesCandy

11 ай бұрын

Thank you! 🙏

Loving the duckie apron

How about an ABC Box. Amaretto, Banana, Cherry. 😂 🤷‍♀️

Omg it looks so good!

The B looks like the side view of a butterfly.

My favorite part of the creams process is removing the creams from the starch. 🎉

I'd love to give this kind a try as chocolate and that artificial banana (that's really modeled after how bananas used to taste until that variety got diseased and is now extinct btw) in a cream flavor sounds so yummy. We don't have anything like an old fashioned homemade candy store anywhere around me in rural southwest Virginia. I enjoy your videos, as I've learned so much about how candies are made. I make homemade fudge and a few different types of candies around Christmas every year.

Do you do anything with black cherry? I think they would make a great cream and a ribbon candy with pineapple. Love watching your videos!

@byronmurphy1977

11 ай бұрын

www.herculescandy.com

For stampers, perhaps look into a nail stamper. Not sure if there are any that are candy safe but the way images are stamped onto fingernails is pretty cool.

I think scooping out the cream beater is my favorite! We don’t see that often enough.

@HerculesCandy

11 ай бұрын

It is pretty satisfying!

Here's me telling the screen "it's a palindrome" lol

@marilynsowards8489

11 ай бұрын

Me too!

Forward and backward words are palidromes. Ie: Racecar A man a plan a canal panama

Artificial banana flavouring is always a curiosity to me. The fact that the flavour is based upon a single chemical - isoamyl acetate - which is found in _all_ bananas, is fascinating. However the highest concentration was found in the Gros Michel, which _used_ to be the _main_ banana that the world was first exposed to. The banana we buy in stores today is the Cavendish, which has a much lower concentration of isoamyl acetate, which is why artificial banana flavour _doesn't_ taste like the fruit we buy now and instead tastes more like the original Gros Michel. I've never tasted the Gros Michel since the Cavendish took over as the main production banana in the 50s, before I was born, so banana flavoured sweets and milkshakes is the closest I will ever come to knowing what that "original" banana used to taste like. The thing I find the most curious, is why modern sweets and artificial flavourings still use a similar level of isoamyl acetate to the Gros Michel, instead of being reduced in concentration to better match the flavour of the bananas we buy today. You'd think people would prefer banana flavouring to be a closer replica of the flavour of the bananas you can buy in stores today - but I guess people still prefer the much sweeter taste of the Gros Michel.

I'd really like a video compiling all the things you've tried as far as decorating goes

Maybe you could make the letters on a sheet of wax paper. Then stick the letter on the chocolate before it hardens. Kinda on the same lines as the frosting letters you buy at the grocery store to decorate a cake. Or quite awhile you could buy that anyway. Lol. Not sure if that’s what you have in mind.

I just noticed that your mom and Adam Savage both stored their supplies the same way. Simple yet effective

I love the letter b your putting on the candy❤

@krose6451

11 ай бұрын

+

Maybe try stamping shapes. A banana should be easy to find,and understand

Great job on the banana creams Cooper! They look fantastic ❤

@margaretdevries8090

11 ай бұрын

Yellow sprinkles are fine too! People will buy them regardless of topping so you want as quick as you can ! How Cooper works with Scott camera man constantly criticizing I don’t know ! I know he means well but really ! Try it yourself !

For stamping letters on, you could try a small metal wax stamp (metal so you can clean it easily) you could either -stamp straight into the chocolate -stamp into little dollops of the coloured chocolate and place them on once set -warm it then dip it into a thin spread of coloured chocolate then stamp it onto the candy When Cooper said he was going to pipe a "B" onto them, for some reason I thought he meant "bee" 🐝. For about 3 seconds I was confused why there would be a bee on them, then I "realised" that it was a pun, "bee for banana". Took me another few seconds that it wasn't a pun, he was talking about the letter B 😂

@Facetiously.Esoteric

11 ай бұрын

You tend to use a stencil and food paint for chocolate.

@JP-bn2kj

11 ай бұрын

.... and change tradition 🤔 No way! 🍌

it was a banana dancing to “it’s peanut butter jelly time” 😂😂

@HerculesCandy

11 ай бұрын

I knew one of you guys would know it!

to decorate the creams could try a spray and stencil? awesome video as always

@Facetiously.Esoteric

11 ай бұрын

That's normally what you do for chocolate. I wish they would bring a chef in to educate them for a week or two. So much stuff they do incorrectly or inefficiently it sometimes drives my nuts. Lol

@altl888

10 ай бұрын

That's what I thought of, and the stencil could be cup- shaped and perhaps silicone, to closely match the shape of the chocolate.

❤❤Good to see Cooper again. Banana Cream, yum, yum, yummy!❤❤

Yay, you guys did it.yummy is all I can say. NOW IM GOING TO HAVE TO ORDER ME SOME. LOVE YA GUYS CAN'T WAIT TO TRY THIS AND areYOU GOING TO MAKE SOME HARD CANDY TO? ❤

For the letrers you could use a sheet of plasric wirh the letters stamped in, pour some cocoa butter/chocolate on it, scrape it, take the plastic off and then place the letters on the cremes. I've seen some tiktoks doing stuff like that. Or maybe you could take some inspiration from. The nail world. Again, you'd need to have a silicone pad with the letters on it, put some chocolate on it, scrape it, and them take this stamping tool, youch it to pick up the chocolate and then stamp it on the creme. Or you could put a stencil of a letter over the cremes and then use a paint sprayer with colored cocoa butter in it and spray over the stencil over the creme.

I had an idea a while back to try and make a pinapple-raspberry pie. Could you make pinapple-raspberry creams?

A suggestion if you haven't tried it is what if you got letter stencils and sprinkled it with edible gold dust?

You should make a Sakura shaped candy with strawberry flavor for spring and call it strawberry Sakura sage or something like with flowers for spring

Palindromes. An anagram is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of a different word or phrase, typically using all the original letters exactly once.

You all are adding so much more time! What he does he does fast !

Palendrome!! Anagram is if you scramble the letters of one word to make another word Palendrome is the same forwards and backwards

I would suggest an airbrush and stencil. You can make this stencil shape do the Contour of the chocolate. you would Breeze through them then

So now you need a box of all the fruit creams…banana, cherry, strawberry, lemon, lime, orange, plum, grape, apple, blackberry, blueberry, raspberry, pear, apricot, mango, peach, pineapple, watermelon. I love fruits, creams and both milk and dark chocolate🍫 If you made a box of all the fruits, I’d buy it. Like your tropical box…And keep the pina colada and the rum raisin in it just for good measure!

@HerculesCandy

11 ай бұрын

If you would like to customize a box of assorted chocolates, choose from any of the assorted chocolates on this page www.herculescandy.com/collections/assorted-chocolates and type your request into the text box labeled "Comments or special requests" on the product page. We don't list the flavors on our website because they change on a daily basis, but we'll come as close as we can!

@zarachastellaris9016

10 ай бұрын

I won't touch anything with banana flavoring!

Pipe the letters onto wax paper, cool them overnight and when the creams are enrobed peel the letters off and kinda glue them on with a little dot of chocolate 😊

I'm not ordering until the heat stops so there won't be a need for cold packs. Perhaps Sept. or October. The barks are my favorite Hercules candy.

Hear me out... Chocolate covered freeze dried marshmallows?

@krose6451

11 ай бұрын

Love the texture freeze dried gives. Chocolate covered freeze dried strawberries are a favorite of mine.

@christinebenson518

11 ай бұрын

Lucky Charms bark!

Scott and Cooper the only thing I could think is make a stencil of a "B" and air brush yellow coco butter. But I think this piping is great.

@Facetiously.Esoteric

11 ай бұрын

You can buy food paints in spray cans now. I use the spray to make stars and planets on dark chocolate.

Amazing job.

I think the yellow Bs look great. They kinda look like a bee’s wings

I love the banana flavor, def wanna try it

Maybe check into letter stamps for leather and they are big ones and small ones they hit the stamps with mallets so if that would work maybe just dip it in chocolate and press them on

This will be a winner

Dark chocolate pineapple creams are so so good !!!! Do y'all make them ????🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

The song with the dancing banana was penutbutter jelly time!

Wild suggestion you could use a stencil and then airbrush with a food coloring.

🖐 i request coffee cookies and cream creams!! my all time favorite combo

16:58 peanut butter jelly time by the Buckwheat Boyz

Soooo pretty

Wish I could afford to order a huge box of those. *drool*

Yes!!!

Yummy! Did you tried cinamon-clove-apple/plum/cherry combo? It could be a Granny's best trio special edition candy... 😋😋 🍎🌸🍒 (I don't know whether any of these flavor combos exists but would be nice...)

Will you guys ever make softer, chewier candy? Like hard candy but chewy instead? Would love to get my hands on that 😁

@heckin_that4421

8 ай бұрын

you mean like toffee??

I just found your channel and saw these banana cream candies and went to the store but they are not selling them now! Do you just make these during certain times of the year? as I never saw banana chocolate creams before.

Yummy to the Banana and Plum creams 😍🇦🇺💜

Wow great editing skills.

@HerculesCandy

11 ай бұрын

Why thank you!

Palindrome - reads the same forward or backward

most popular (and claimed first (sic)) palindrome "Madam, I'm Adam"

Stressed backwards is desserts!

Hey guys. Could you cream the sugar in a stand mixer with a beater? Will it have the same effect? Thanks. Lee.

@HerculesCandy

11 ай бұрын

This Might DESTROY Your Kitchen!

@leewebster6499

11 ай бұрын

Can I ask how much water to add?

Instead of stamping why maybe try spraying them on using a stencil and cake spray paint? 100% uniform and can vary colors easily if it would work on your candy.

On the creme filled when the come out of the cornstarch they seem hard as a rock, what makes them soften up. Does the chocolate soften them

So weird how the cream, actually has no cream in it! Just love watching this channel! 🍭 🍬 🫕

@HerculesCandy

11 ай бұрын

Haha right? Just different forms of sugar! But when you pour it at the right temperature it's creamy

@khwis

10 ай бұрын

Cream is a verb in baking, and it just means to mix with air until white and fluffy

@monicaglenn7878

10 ай бұрын

@@khwis I know it cream means I've been a baker since I was itty bitty. I was just saying there's no actual cream as in dairy

Bananas in pajamas there coming down the stairs bananas in pajama’s coming down in pairs. Is that the song??

Stencils with airbrush or regular brush for the letters

The 'b' looks like 1/2 of a butterfly. I think I don't like yellow creams but that's ok because out of all of the creams you make, not liking 2 isn't a big deal. Have you figured out how to make a tie dye cream for Terry yet?

What about letters preprinted onto rice paper circles that you can just pop out of a sheet?

Maybe some kind of flexible stencil and an airbrush?

Family guy Brian dressed up in a banana costume and sang peanut butter jelly time

The banana song was I'm a Banana by Onision

Bananas in pajamas are coming down the stairs

You just have to love Steve

how about triple creams? Chocolate, Banana and Strawberry! You could call them BANANA SPLITS!

So theorhetically, if I wanted to make my own cremes at home, do you think I could pour the mixture into a Kitchenaid mixer and stir it on low to get the air into the mix in the same way as the industrial beater you use?

@HerculesCandy

11 ай бұрын

It's possible - we have seen videos of home cooks doing this. It's also possible for the motor on the mixer to burn out because they aren't meant to run for 30 minutes or more.

Palindromes! Like: I, madam! I made radio! So I dared! Am I mad? Am I?

I like the flowery "B" Suggestion for an easier "B" make a 3 and bring the line up to make a B.

One word is racecar because that backwards is racecar

I need a half banana cream, half peanut butter, chocolate coated bon bon, stat!

You probably watched Bananas in pajamas. Popular show from the 90’s with a very catchy tune and featured live characters dressed as two bananas, B1 and B2, teddy bears and rat and their adventures. Bananas in pajamas are coming down the stairs, bananas in pajamas are coming down in pairs, bananas in pajamas are chasing teddy bears…. You need a bananas in pyjamas apron for banana day!

Can you make cream filling in a stand mixer?

Stencil with airbrush for decoration on top

I've never had a banana flavored product that doesn't taste artificial. Tough flavor to imitate. Now fresh banana in a dessert, outstanding!!! Best flavor ever.

@HerculesCandy

11 ай бұрын

Fun fact: the bananas in the stores are a variety called a Cavendish banana. The banana in candy is flavored after a different type of banana called the Gro Michel!

@woodyg75

11 ай бұрын

@@HerculesCandy Thanks for the info!!

Palindrome = Word that spells the same forward and backwards

He's thinking of Banana in Pajamas I think.

#peanut butter jelly time....where he at? there he go...peanut butter jelly with a baseball bat# 🍌🍌🍌 hahahaha that's what you thinking off Coops!

I love banana!

You'll never make a profit unless you hide the banana creams away from terry 🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌 bananas rule!