Liquid center filled confections, such as gummy or jelly candies or fruit
snacks are continuously produced by co-deposition into a mold without
candy tailing to obtain products with substantially uniform top and
bottom walls and little, if any, shell breakage and liquid filling
leakage or bleed-out problems. Excessive vertical decentering of the
filling caused by substantial differences in specific gravity between the
liquid filling component and the shell component and its accompanying
production of thin or weak shell walls is substantially reduced or
eliminated. A non-gellable liquid filling is deposited vertically
off-center within a gellable shell, and the amount of sinking or floating
is controlled so as to achieve an at least substantially centered
product. The filling migration is limited by rapidly cooling the shell
component below its gelling or setting temperature by use of a much
colder filling component which itself does not gel or set at low
temperatures.