It's a bonafide candy factory inside Lansing Community College Monday.

Volunteers are slicing, dicing, rolling and wrapping the gooey goodness at a record pace, and with good reason; this is record fudge.

"We are standing in front of the biggest piece of mint-chocolate-fudge with the intent to break the Guinness world record," says Jim Crosby, otherwise known as "Peppermint Jim," owner of Get Mint Trading Co. in St. Johns.

The road to the record has been paved with some previous unsucessful attempts by Peppermint Jim. In 2003, he made it to 850 lbs. of fudge. In 2007, his attempt failed before he reached any pounds at all.

But this year, he has help from LCC culinary professor William Nicklosovich, known as "Chef Nick."

They're combining 2,811 lbs. of chocolate, 705 lbs. of butter, half a gallon of peppermint, 309 gallons of sweet condensed milk and "a lot of help," the men say.

But is it enough to beat the record of 5,050 lbs., set by a fudge factory in Ontario? Yes it is.

"We reached 5,500 lbs.," says Crosby.

But they aren't just trying to bust the record for their own chocolate indulgence. There's also a humanitarian reason behind this sweet feat.

One hundred percent of the proceeds go to charitable foundations, including scholarships for LCC students and the Gateway Foundation.

A pretty sweet deal, no matter which way you slice it.

The fudge is on sale for $10 a pound at LCC and the Lansing City Market.