Halloween is the first Holiday in Candy Season. The variety of candy is not quite as remarkable as Easter or Christmas, because most candy is just smaller sizes of single serve products for easy distribution for Halloween trick or treaters. It’s interesting to see what the new and returning products are each year.
The big trend seems to be seasonal flavor combinations. The notable ones are Candy Corn (now in jelly bean, gum drop, chocolate covered & novelty flavors) and Caramel Apple (lollipops, Milky Way bars, Werther’s hard candies, Sugar Babies).
I haven’t seen much that’s new this year, but I did visit most of the stores in my area to see what’s on the shelves, here’s my hitlist of the highlights:
HERSHEY’S
Hershey’s decided to use more neutral fall leaves theming on their packages this year instead of Halloween specific graphics. So don’t expect to find them on the sale shelves after Halloween, as they expect merchants to simply move them on to themed displays for Thanksgiving.
Pumpkin Spice Kisses (review)
KIT KAT Orange Wafer Bars
Reese’s Pumpkins - now in a new orange package instead of purple (review)
Cadbury Screme Egg Candy is a green yolk flowing fondant egg.
MARS
Milky Way Caramel Apple Minis (review)
Snickers Pumpkin (review)
Candy Corn White Chocolate M&Ms (review)
NECCO
Mary Jane Peanut Butter Kisses (review)
Clark Wicked Mix (review)
Mellocreme Zombies (I still haven’t found these)
FARLEY’S & SATHERS (BRACH’S)
Brach’s Milk Maid Caramel Candy Corn (review)
Brach’s Autumn Mix (review)
Brach’s Halloween Mix (flavored mellocreams in holiday shapes) (review)
Brach’s Indian Corn
Brach’s Mellocreme Pumpkins
TOOTSIE
Blood Orange Dots (Bats) (review)
Ghost Dots (Clear) (review)
Candy Corn Dots (Vanilla) (review)
Orchard Mix Caramel Apple Pops (review)
Vanilla Tootsie Rolls
Caramel Apple Sugar Babies (review) Now available in snack packs for Trick or Treat
JUST BORN
Peeps Chocolate Pumpkins (review)
Peeps Ghosts & Pumpkins (I like the ghosts because they’re the only Peeps that aren’t artificially colored.)
Mike and Ike Mummy Mix
NESTLE & WONKA
Butterfinger PumpkinsSpooky Nerds
(They don’t actually make the Whitman’s Marshmallow Candy Corn any longer, but I like the photo too much to not use it this year.)
RUSSELL STOVER
Russell Stover Peanut Butter Candy Pumpkins
Russell Stover Coconut Dream Pumpkin
Russell Stover Chocolate Marshmallow Pumpkin
Russell Stover Dark Chocolate covered Marshmallow Pumpkin (review)
Russell Stover Strawberry Cream Pumpkin
Russell Stover Marshmallow Pumpkin (milk chocolate) (review)
JELLY BELLY
Jelly Belly Deluxe Halloween Mix (review)
Jelly Belly Candy Corn Jelly Beans (review)
Jelly Belly Giant Candy Corn
Jelly Belly Sour Gummi Pumpkins
Jelly Belly Fall Festival Mix
NOT RETURNING:
Hershey’s Candy Corn Kisses (review)
Hershey’s Caramel Apple Kisses (review)
Mary Jane Wicked Mix (review)
Brach’s Gummy Candy Corn (review)
So what have you seen that’s new or what’s missing that you’ve been looking forward to?
Ahh, I looked for the caramel apple kisses and wasn’t able to find them—I guess that’s that! I’m a little bummed, I quite liked ‘em
I love peanut butter kisses but it’s been literally years since I’ve seen any in the stores near me. I live in Chicago, and I’ve looked in various grocery stores as well as CVS and Walgreens. Nada. Disappointing.
I want to try them all (well all the one’s without peanuts…allergic)!!! This is a really great list, I might just take it out to the stores with me so I can remember it all!
p.s. totally obsessed with the blog! I am a sweet tooth, so it’s heaven.
xx
you mentioned chocolate covered candy corn at the beginning of your review - does this exist?
Laura - one of the Brach’s candy corn mixes has some pieces of chocolate covered candy corn. Target also sells some mixed in with their Toffee Candy Corn. There may be others as well.
Brigid - I’ve seen the Necco version at KMart and CVS. The lesser quality Melster brand showed up at Rite Aid in my area.
NECCO did the Zombie thing as Skybar branded this year: http://www.necco.com/Seasonal/Halloween/Sky-BarĀ®-Zombie-Food.aspx
Given that the Skybar is about multiple fillings, and this is all red-colored caramel filling, I’m not sure why they did that brand extension.
the Tootsie Apple Orchard Mix are out there, but in very limited locations. ONE local grocery store got some this year. Every other store just put out their regular caramel apple pops instead.
At CVS and Walgreens, I’ve seen Peeps pumpkin-shaped rice crisp and marshmallow treats—they’re actually pretty good!
The Halloween Kit Kats are more delicious than the regular ones!
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