if i told you i'd have to kill you...

At the Malteser works, maybe theyre's a special team of workers who pick up each Malteser with tweezers and file away the chocolate drip.

or breath on it and buff it with a specially designed cloth?

No no, when they have been dipped in melted chocolate, the "Blowey Staff" take each one in turn and blow them to each other, keeping them in the air at all times until the chocolate dries.

I can't believe I have lived 39 years on this earth and this question has never before occurred to me - now it's bugging me!!!

here is one theory (very plausible i must say!!!) Each Malteser is made of a special kind of malt - fused chocolate, made when chocolate crystals are melted-- machined to a diameter of 3.81 cm (1.5 in), and then polished to within 40 atoms - less than a millionth of an inch - of a perfect sphere. That's equivalent to the Earth's surface being polished so round that mountain peaks and ocean trenches are within 5 meters (16 ft) of the same level. Only neutron stars are thought to be smoother, because gravity flattens everything on the surface. Each Malteser, gently levitated in a vacuum, will spin at 9,000 rotations per minute inside an almost equally round chocolate housing, all of it isolated inside a giant liquid helium-filled Thermos bottle. From the Malteser's point of view, the universe will virtually disappear. All that should affect them are the gravitational pulls of the Earth, Moon, and Sun (the rest of the solar system and universe are too small to worry about) and the frame-dragging and geodetic effects.

They are kept rolling constantly, and the chocolate is sprayed onto them in very fine drops which harden quickly enough to stick on without making a sticky drippy bit where it's touching the conveyor belt.

I love Maltesers

LMAO kags!

lol, kags your a genius. love the theory

I absolutely cannot take credit for the theory - I found it on the web but it had no author credired - oh how I wish I were that clever!

Such memories, that's the question that originally brought me to this site!

I love the cracked ones where the honeycombe inside has gone chewey!!

Source: BBC Extract from article in Food section: "Though Mars Confectionery does not release information on the manufacture of their goods, the most likely process used is called 'panning'. In panning, the malt centers are coated with chocolate in a revolving drum, then allowed to cool. "

they get specially trained monkeys to lick it off and  polish it off with there friends.