There's a real-life, edible version of 'Candy Crush' made in a London sweet shop - and we found out how it's made

In case you've never played "Candy Crush," here's what the desktop version looks like. You match candies to win.

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"Candy Crush" developer King worked with Spun Candy to design real-life versions of the sweets in the game. Here's what the early designs looked like.

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We're going to follow the process of making the jelly bean candy design. First of all, transparent candy is heated up, and then it's dyed to make it white and red.

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The candy is mixed with the dye, and then separated so that there are two red sections and one white section.

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The white section is stretched out. This makes sure that there's lots of air in it.

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The red sections are cut into lots of different bits.

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Some of the red parts are mixed with some of the white parts. That makes pink candy.

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There you go: Pink candy!

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The pink candy is wrapped inside some red candy. This will make the actual jelly bean part of the sweets.

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And that's all wrapped in a big white layer. This will be the inside section.

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Now it's time to make the stripes that go along the outside. They're put together by hand using the red and white sections that were set aside earlier.

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The stripes are wrapped around the main section. It looks a bit like a giant sweet here, right?

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Now it's time to stretch it! That way, the design goes through all of the candy.

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The candy is still warm, so it can be stretched out really far.

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The candy is cut into sections and rolled to keep it circular as it cools down.

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The candy on the left is getting cold and more rigid. But the candy on the right hasn't been rolled, so it's still warm and floppy.

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Candy can also be made into lollipops by making a spiral shape.

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The design goes through all of the sweets because the large, original section was stretched out really far.

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The sections are put on cutting blocks and chopped up to make the small sweets.

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Spun Candy also makes sweets with other "Candy Crush" characters ...

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... and these cool lollipops.

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