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I’d like to see any reader rise to the occasion to create a working model rocket powered by “candy”:

[Y]ou can’t actually fire a rocket with a Snickers bar; the nuts would clog the nozzle. Oreo cookie filling, however, works very nicely in standard model-rocket engines. (Caution: The Model Rocket Safety Code does not approve of filling rocket motors with highly reactive chlorate-Oreo mixtures.)

The thrust wasn’t great, but my chlorate-Oreo rocket did get off the ground�not bad for a half-baked confection. Serious sugar hits like Pixy Stix and Gummi Bears give more power, but true “candy rockets� (yes, that really is a term used in model rocketry) are made with the hard stuff: pure sucrose (table sugar) or dextrose (processed starch).

Anyone willing to give it a shot? Build a one-off UNEASY rocket powered by nothing but [my favorite] Haribo gummi bears?