Top 12 Cult Candies to Try This Halloween
We love a mini Kit Kat as much as the next guy, but that’s no excuse to limit your Halloween candy repertoire to a mega pack of the usual suspects from the big box store. This year, share a world of mindblowingly complex flavor and texture combinations with your trick or treaters thanks to these cult candies, from sugar-chic vintage candy reissues to international varieties available online.
1/12Milk Chocolate Bosco Bar
Dylan’s Candy Bar is stocking this limited edition milk chocolate bar flavored with Bosco, the chocolate syrup that gave Ovaltine a run for its money. Bonus gory trivia: Bosco was the preferred fake blood of choice in black and white horror flicks Psycho and Night of the Living Dead.
2/12Cadbury Flake
A Brit classic. Imagine a croissant made not of hundreds of layers of delicate pastry, but of chocolate. Exquisite flakey texture.
3/12Zagnut
A super sophisticated taste of Americana: the peanut butter center has a more delicate texture than a Butter Finger; the exterior is toasted coconut.
4/12Whatchamacallit
Were you born too late to play Atari? Do you have an Atari T-shirt? Then you owe it to yourself to flaunt this candy bar whose graphics scream late 70s-early 80s. The texture is at once caramelly chewy and rice crispy crunchy, and the flavor is that dynamic duo of peanut and chocolate.
5/12Pocky
This Japanese favorite is the perfect balance of savory and sweet. Think of a bread stick dipped in chocolate, but way better.
6/12Ting Ting Jehe
This candy from Indonesia taste so spicy and authentically gingery that it might scare off the kiddies. And it’s so sticky-chewy you might want to hand out dental floss along with it.
7/12Chips Licorice
Take the licorice flavor of a black twizzler and increase it 10fold. This Italian candy has the almost medicinal, menthol intensity beloved among true licorice afficionados.
8/12Torrone Nougat
Ethereal egg white, the scent of orange, and the crunch of almonds. The pinnacle of Italian confectionaries in convenient candy form.
9/12Pop Rocks
Before Ferran Adria got all molecular on us, we had Pop Rocks. Still an unparalleled sensory experience in the candy aisle.
10/12Boston Baked Beans
These salty, sugary peanuts in a box from Ferrara Pan are the closest thing to actual nutrition.
11/12Turkish Taffy
This recently ressurected old school New York brand boasts multiple flavors and colors, I Dream of Jeannie graphics, and a Tootsie-roll like texture.
12/12Violet Crumble
This Australian favorite is chocolate on the outside with a crumbly crunchy aerated center. To get all wine-tasting about it: it has notes of burnt brown sugar. Seriously.
