Rake your leaves and spice your pumpkins, because autumn has arrived!
I’ve always felt that when fall truly begins is pretty subjective. Does it start on September 22nd? Does it start with the Corn Moon? Does it start on the first day of school? Does it start when Halloween candy hits the shelves? Does it start when Starbucks brings back the Pumpkin Spice Latte?
Scientists remain divided (but it’s the last one for me)!
Regardless of when it starts, right smack in the middle of our favourite season is the spookiest holiday ever created! Halloween!
You might think it’s a little early to be thinking about this year’s candy or costumes, but you’d be wrong! If you consult the Halloween Town clock, you’ll see there are only 57 days left before next Halloween! Where does the time go?!
We’ve been getting our Halloween treats in for weeks, and TikTok has been HOWLING over this year’s newest candy! Since we want to help spread a little holiday fear, we did some digging and stitched together a list (and checked it twice) of this year’s top trending Halloween candy!
From new versions of your favourite candies that are a little more “trick-or-treatable,” to new spooky flavours, to new extreme experiences, we’ve got a candy to satisfy your sweet tooth and your cat-killing curiosity!
So without further ado, we now present to you our list of TikTok’s Top Trending Halloween Candy!
Nerds Spooky Gummy Clusters
Nerds Gummy Clusters have taken the candy world by storm! Every flavour is a hit, and their new Spooky Halloween flavour is no exception!
We regret to inform you that we won’t have them in trick or treat size packs this year. You’ll have to put them in a big bowl as a beautiful centrepiece and share them with your friends the old-fashioned way! Soooryyy :(
Nerds are a little sour but never dour! Even at their spookiest, Nerds’ colours are as bright and fun as they taste! Purple grape, white fruit punch, and orange… orange, add a pop of life and cheerful contrast to your candy table!
Nerds Spooky Gummy Clusters are available in 3 purposely portioned packs! The 3 oz Share Pack is perfect for a little coven, the 8 oz Stand Bag for pleasing a party, or the Nerds Rope for when you need a sweet treat to help pull yourself up out of the gloom!
Get them while they last, because these little guys are going FAST!
Warheads Sour Lollipops
Crawl Out of the Fallout this Halloween!
Warheads Sour Lollipops will leave your mouth an acid-scorched wasteland! These limited-run Halloween candies are so sour they had to add a quick-eject safety stick!
Few things make better TikTok candy content than sour challenges, and Warheads Sour Lollipops are the perfect treats to cause some teary defeats!
They’ve got all the face-twisting sour power of the originals, and the mouth-watering fruity flavours too (if you can survive long enough to taste them)!
Challenge your friends to see who will last the longest! Will you fizzle first? Or are you strong enough to wander alone as the sole survivor in the Warhead wastes? Grab a bag and duke it out!
KitKat Witch’s Brew
Enjoy the fire-free taste of creamy marshmallow with KitKat Witch’s Brew!
Is it any wonder these KitKats caught fire on the witchy side of TikTok? They’ve got a beautiful eerie green glow, they taste amazing, and they’re versatile enough that any crafty coven or snacky circle of sisterhood could find a tome’s worth of tricks for these treats!
We really thought KitKat Ghost Toast was going to be the big wafer winner this Halloween, but we’re okay with getting this one wrong. We love to see a witch winning!
This Halloween exclusive won’t be around forever! (They might repackage it when Wicked: For Good comes out in November, but they might not!) find your familiars and summon a bag of KitKat Witch’s Brew tonight!
Sour Patch Kids Lollipop
First, they’re sweet. Then they’re sour. Then they’re sour. Then they’re sour.
The great taste of your favourite sour-then-sweet gummy candies are now available as a hard candy lollipop with a packet of sour dipping powder!
Wait, hold on… Sour sugar dip for a head on a stick?
Like a severed head? On a stick? That’s… pretty brutal for a kids’ candy, right? The Warheads are similar, sure, but that guy's just a head. These are, like, a part of the kids!
Can they do that? Is that allowed?
Is this like a PG-13 candy? Can kids just buy these?
They can?!
Crazy.
No wonder these got big on TikTok, people LOVE this kind of cartoon violence over there. And that’s fine obviously, I do too, but like… I don’t know… Check your kids candy this Halloween for severed heads, I guess? Where are the Sour Patch Parents?
Anyways…
Sour Patch Kids Lollipop! This Halloween, get the candy that always sticks to the head of the pac- oh come on! This is obscene. I’m going home! Get the new guy to do the rest! The spooky one for all I care!
Sour Punch Ghost Pepper Roulette
When you bite into the abyss, the abyss bites back.
Layered within the pack, you see rows of identical inky black tendrils writhing with sweet fruity flavours, crystals of sour sugar, and ghastly ghost pepper pain.
Sitting at a table with your friends, a simple game of chance decides who will pull the first piece.
1…
2…
3…
GO!
Four hands shoot forward. Three hands show two fingers. Yours shows one.
How unlucky.
You reach out and tempt fate, pushing your luck even as you pull the first liquorice straw from the pack. When you bite down and cross to the other side, you pray for sour and sweet, but brace to cower from heat.
How many devils dwell here amongst the grapes, berries, and cherries? Where wait the wraiths watching for the wretched fool whose fortune falters? The eye cannot identify them, the nose knows not, fingers fail, ears expectedly empty; taste alone tells them apart.
A deep breath out, then a quick move in places the candy across your teeth and tongue. You bravely bite down, severing the soft straw, fiercely fortified for the fel-flavoured fate that finds you!
Sour!
Sweet…
Grape?
Grape.
Reveling in relief, self satisfied and effervescent with endorphins, you cherish the crisp crystalline crunch and sweet escape of a delicious grape sour straw.
With a sweet smile and a sour voice, you turn the pack to the left towards your friend.
“Your turn.”
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And so concludes our list of TikTok’s Top Trending Halloween Candies. There was quite the villainous variety, no?
Although Halloween is for anyone, it is not for everyone. Surely, they will be back next week.
If you want to trick time and treat yourself early, the Candy Funhouse Trick or Treat Bag is filled with this season’s most sensational sweets. Not to mention the limited-run reusable “Heeere’s Ghostface!” tote.
Do you have a favourite new Halloween candy this year? Did we miss anything amazing? Let us know down below.
Until next time. Stay freaky.
