See How Candy Canes Are Created At IE's Logan's Candies: VIDEO

ONTARIO, CA —A small candy shop in downtown Ontario has taken TikTok by storm, as the owners share videos detailing the process of creating hand-made candy canes. To date, tens of millions of TikTok and Instagram viewers have watched Jerry Rowley—the shop's current owner—stretching, pulling, coloring, and flavoring enormous wads of candy "dough" he bends into unique candy cane creations.

If you live near the Inland Empire, a $5 ticket can get your kids' noses pressed to the glass and waiting to sample a piece of fresh, warm candy cane.

The small shop has a storied history in the Inland Empire and a cult following. The original Logan's Candy Store opened at a different location under different ownership in 1933. It was relocated to 125 W. B Street in downtown Ontario in the 1950s, where it currently sits. The current owner began working at the store at 12 years old and apprenticed in the art of candy cane making under three different owners. He bought Logan's Candies, along with his wife, Susi, in the 1980s. Rowley was just 19 years old at that time, according to the website.

In 2023, the Rowley family celebrated their 40th Christmas season at the candy shop. Each day, they make candy canes, homemade chocolates and candy ribbons, and pleasing palates across the Inland Empire and the world. The best part is the show, according to many, which is now a standing-room-only event. Tickets are available for $5 each online, and advanced tickets are necessary, the owners say.

Rowley is a natural performer for the crowds of tasters that pile into the shop at Christmas time and all year long.

At the shop, he uses the same equipment he learned with, from marble slab tables to industrial-looking candy warmers that keep the sugary substance at a malleable temperature. He still uses a wall hook to pull the sticky creations into elegant canes. Other stretches of sugary treats are flattened into colorful ribbons. Rowley tells bad dad jokes in stride as he makes the treats for the crowd, working in what he says is an age-old art form.

All Logan's candies are made with original recipes in small batches by hand, and one batch can make about 400 canes, he said.

"A little cut, a little roll, and a little bend on the end," he says. "There's your candy cane."

If you go in person, you get a sampling of the still-warm candy, handmade before your eyes.

According to the store's website, Logan’s Candies carries over 600 different candy items, ranging from retro candy bars to gummy and sour candies.

"Over 200 of those candies are made in-house, by hand, including all our chocolates, fudges, candy canes, ribbon candies, pillow mints, peanut brittle, caramel apples & more," a store spokesperson said. "Logan’s Candies has been a staple of Downtown Ontario for nearly 90 years and continues to add sweetness and joy to the community!"