Incorporated, which produces food products around the world as diverse and Uncle Bens rice and Kal Kan dog food. When the founders son, Forrest E. Mars, Sr., returned from England where he had established the first canned pet food business in that country, he formed a company in Newark, New Jersey, to make small chocolate candies that could be sold throughout the year, not melting in the not summer months. Those were the first M & Ms. The company, called M & M Limited, consolidated with other Mars confectionery businesses in the United States in 1967 to form M & M/Mars as it exists today.

The Mars Milky Way bar was the first chocolate-covered candy bar to find widespread popularity in the United States. It was developed in 1923 by the Mars family, and became so successful so quickly that the company had to build a new manufacturing plant in Chicago just to keep up with demand.

Youll need a heavy-duty mixer for this recipe.