12 New Halloween Candies You Should Try This Year
Delight trick-or-treaters with the newest candies on the block.
Boo! It’s October. Scary how quickly the month crept up on us! But now that it’s here, it’s time to start thinking about Halloween costumes and candy: What will you put in your party bowl or hand out to trick-or-treaters this year? The tried-and-trues are always good bets — and we all have our favorites. But it’s also fun to mix it up and try something different. Here are 12 (a suitably scary number) exciting new candy options that have arrived just in time for the season of ghosts, goblins and gobbling treats.
This pack of Jolly Ranchers brings all the tricks! The brand introduced a chewy version of their fan-favorite hard candies, in the same well-known flavors of watermelon, green apple, cherry, grape and blue raspberry, but there's a catch — the different colors and shapes don't always match the corresponding flavor! Keep snacking on this candy bag and test your taste buds to figure out which flavor is which, even when the color and appearance are deceiving.
Twizzlers Ghosts sweetens the otherwise haunted season with these bite-sized chews shaped like screaming ghosts, a scare-tastic shape that adds festive flair to your snacking (we recommend adding them to a candy salad!) But if there's anything you need to beware this Halloween, it's how tempted you'll be to demolish the whole bag.
In celebration of the 75th anniversary of Peanuts, and in reference to the iconic "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown," episode, Reese's collaborated with none other than the Peanuts gang on the packaging of their Reese's Miniatures for the season. Anyone, no matter what age, would love to receive a Snoopy-wrapped Reese's in their trick-or-treating bag.
There's something about the weather starting to turn that triggers an itch to have a Harry Potter movie marathon (been there). And now you can really immerse yourself in the wizarding world with these all-new Hershey's Cookies N' Creme candy bars, featuring detailed designs of characters including Hedwig, Dobby, Buckbeak and Fawkes. Add them to your movie night snack bar or pass them out to trick-or-treaters who equally love the franchise.
Nothing screams fall like cinnamon-flavored anything, and Twix understood the assignment with the release of this snickerdoodle-flavored candy bar. You can expect the same crunchy wafer and sticky caramel interior and rich milk chocolate exterior, but the classic caramel flavor is swapped with cinnamon-sugar swirl. Need we say more?
The same peanut butter creme and milk chocolate combo you love now comes in mini-fied pumpkins made for popping in your mouth all night long. They come unwrapped for easy (maybe too easy) snacking, and are great for adding an autumnal twist to desserts like cupcakes or cookies.
Another scary good shape that hit the shelves this Halloween season is Kit Kat Counts, a fang-tastic twist on the popular (and so delicious) crisp wafer dipped in milk chocolate. These bite-sized bars are the perfect addition to your candy assortment this year — bonus points if you include all the festive Kit Kat shapes from this assorted Halloween pack.
If you're a fan of sour candy, you'll love to hear that Skittles has taken its sour game to a whole new level with these all-new shriek-worthy candies. The pack features lime, tangerine, citrus, raspberry and green apple flavors, each with a different level of sour — some that will make you pucker, and others tear-jerking. The trick is that you won't know when it's coming, so eat if you dare!
Deliver a nuttier spin to your candy bowl this Halloween with an all-new twist on the classic Snickers bar, featuring a pecan, caramel and nougat center coated in smooth milk chocolate. This pack comes with 24, which is the perfect amount for a horror movie marathon with friends (and to leave yourself more than enough extras).
Sour, sweet (or should we say, scary) gone! Sour Patch Kids mummy-fied their beloved gummies just in time for spooky season with these monster heads, coming in three different flavor combos between watermelon, black raspberry and orange. We love that they're individually wrapped and two times bigger than the originals, leaving trick-or-treaters with an easy candy to grab and one that's fun to eat.
Just when you thought Sour Patch Kids' Halloween-season offerings couldn't get any better, you're in for a real treat (no trick this time). Sour Patch took their small gummy kids in five classic flavors and turned them into long sour strips for biting, twisting and tearing. We can see these in all of our horror movie marathons in the future.
GHIRARDELLI is known for its rich, velvety chocolate, so combining that with the flavors of apple and caramel is unmatched. These Jack O' Lantern chocolates are filled with GHIRARDELLI tart apple-flavored caramel for a burst of fall flavor in your mouth. They also come individually wrapped and ready for passing out (or not, we won't judge).
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