The scares and spooks are fun, but let’s face it: Halloween is all about the candy. Sure, there are plenty of Halloween desserts and festive Halloween party snacks to satisfy your sweet tooth, but classic candy is arguably the best way to satisfy your sweet tooth. While you can always stock up on traditional candies, you’ll be the coolest house on the block if you mix in some brand-new Halloween candy.
We’ve gathered our favourite Halloween candy for 2022 to help you narrow down your spooky-season sweets. There are plenty of scarily delicious options to stock up on this Halloween, ranging from chocolate classics that never go out of style to treats with a spooky twist. Whether you’re looking for bulk Halloween candy or fun-size bites to snack on all night, these spooktacular options will satisfy any festive needs. Many of these deals are only available for a limited time, so get them from Amazon, Walmart, Sam’s Club, or Target before October 31. That way, you can cross something off your list while still having time to snack on your favourites.
Not only is it the best candy out there, but it’s also one of the best snacks ever, a perfect marriage of peanut butter and chocolate. And it’s extremely versatile, especially for Halloween. Are you going for the mini with the jagged chocolate edges? In all its biteable glory, the medium-cup? Or the pumpkin, which serves as a vehicle for cramming as much sugary peanut butter as possible into your mouth? It’s your lucky day: you can’t go wrong with a Reese’s.
The crunch of the cookie. The delectable hard caramel. The incredibly smooth chocolate. Twix has a lot of things to love (three, in fact), but this thing is even better in fun-size form. The proportions of the three main ingredients are simply perfect, striking a balance that makes the intense sugar rush entirely worthwhile.
It’s easily the most filling of all candy bars, with nougat, caramel, nuts, and chocolate representing nearly every food group. Even in bite-size portions, this is difficult to eat in a single bite. Regardless, it’s worth the effort and makes a great addition to your Pissed-Off Betty White costume.
It’s the closest your Halloween bag will get to a sandwich, and let’s be honest: milk chocolate and sugary wafers are far superior to a tiny tuna on rye, especially after sitting in a pillowcase for a few hours. In addition, the two-by-two snack-size KitKat makes an adorable addition to your Hacksaw Jim Duggan costume.
It’s as if someone took a bunch of peanut butter and turned it into the world’s thinnest toffee before layering it beneath a blanket of chocolate. When you bite it, the little flakes pop off and melt on your tongue like chocolate cow butter.
What happened when some kind soul decided to create a candy bar that tastes like a more caramel-laden cousin to Little Debbie’s unsung Star Crunch? We had forgotten about it. It has been relegated to a bar that is more associated with buying overpriced candy during a Boy Scouts fundraising drive than with the outstanding snack that it is. A 100 Grand deserved better.
Mr.Goodbar, the king of the Hershey’s variety pack a simple, peanutty bit of awesome that puts Krackel to shame, is the snack so delicious that simply calling it Goodbar seemed like a sign of disrespect.
Finally, something nutritious. Are rice puffs not healthy? Especially when they’re dipped in Nestlé’s melty milk chocolate. If you leave one unchewed in your mouth for too long, it dissolves into a poor man’s Cocoa Krispies. This is a positive development.
They have the same shape and coating as M&M’s, and the peanut butter is just a little bit better. You no longer have to wonder what these would taste like stuffed inside a Peanut Butter Cup, but that shouldn’t stop you from making your own.
The American classic is the best no-frills, melt-in-your-mouth. Add some almonds and you’ve got yourself a monster. When you add Cookies and Creme, you’ll wonder what the hell you’re eating. Save these for your upcoming campfire s’mores this fall and winter.
Starbursts, another candy-based chemistry, come in so many flavours that the flavour combinations are almost limitless. Until you get a little pack with two lemons in it, which is a cruel twist of fate that occurs all too frequently. Pink Starbursts are the best, but the other flavours aren’t far behind.
With its toffee butteriness, the Heath bar makes you feel like a little British schoolboy, and will make you look like one when your teeth eventually fall out from all the toffee you’ve had lodged in your molars for weeks on end. It’s a small price to pay for brittle perfection.
Call this a garbage take, preferably while pelting with these, the bag’s most underappreciated treat. These things appear to exist only during Halloween or in your grandmother’s candy dish, but they offer the opportunity to perform some amazing alchemy. Do you want to put a vanilla and an orange in your mouth? Creamsicle, a lime and a lemon? Sprite candies? Can you eat them all at once?
Nobody ever asks for a Milky Way, and these candy bars usually compete for bottom-of-the-bag dominance with 3 Musketeers (which you won’t find on this list) and hateful pennies. Milky Ways, like Caramello on a budget, are perfectly serviceable and provide the sugar rush you require.
Some extremely artificial fruit flavouring, a sore jaw, and a couple of wrapper jokes that make you feel awkward for laughing (and that you suspect Dave Coulier either wrote or stole)? Bring it with you.
Nerds are simply sugar boogers with a slight fruit flavour, but they don’t come in flavour combo packs at Halloween. Fill your mouth with random flavours and hope for the best.
Skittles would be much higher on this list if I could forget the time I shoved an entire bag into my mouth and cut the insides of my cheeks on all the sugar shrapnel that exploded everywhere. Getting Skittles directly into your bloodstream, on the other hand, is pretty amazing.
Are PayDays like grandpa candy? Yeah. Is it an underappreciated explosion of salted peanuts, nougat, and caramel? Absolutely. Perhaps Grandpa was on to something. This is why he lost his teeth so soon. In either case, underrated.
There are over two dozen Haribo Gummies variations, but you’re unlikely to get Dinosaurs, Frogs, or anything else. You’re going to get the Gold Bears. Which is fine, but there aren’t enough in a fun-sized bag to make you forget about Twin Snakes or Happy Cola.
Twizzlers, are not only delicious in their artificial strawberry glory, but they are also an excellent solution to drinking in a post-plastic straw era. They also make excellent whips and ropes. These were not invented by MacGyver. But he used them to syphon gas and suture a wound at some point.
M&Ms would be ranked first if they were embedded in a cookie or something, but they are still pretty good on their own. Especially if they’re peanut-flavored. Or the peanut butter variety. Or the pretzel variety, the brownie variety, the crispy or almond variety, why don’t they make a little bag with all the different flavours inside? This would put it in the running for the top five.
Jolly Ranchers If you always got the long, rectangular, flat Jolly Ranchers, these would rank much higher. As it is, you usually get a couple of the cylindrical ones, and they’ve either shed part of their wrapper or melded to the candy, leading me to believe that people who give out Jolly Ranchers for Halloween keep them under a he
