Spin the Wheel Candy: 84 Kinds of Candy

Spin one of 84 kinds of candy for a party bag, a candy buffet or movie night, with a note on what is in it.

Spin the Wheel Candy: 84 Kinds of Candy

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Fudge

Sugar, butter and milk cooked to the soft-ball stage; below 240°F it will not set properly. Students at Vassar College made it a campus craze in the late 1800s. Contains dairy.

Every spin uses the whole wheel.

84 candies on the wheel.

Numbers on the wheel

  1. Saltwater taffy
  2. Soft caramels
  3. Bubble gum
  4. Gumballs
  5. Black licorice twists
  6. Red licorice twists
  7. Nougat
  8. Lollipops
  9. Candy canes
  10. Starlight mints
  11. Butterscotch discs
  12. Rock candy
  13. Jawbreakers
  14. Lemon drops
  15. Stick candy
  16. Ribbon candy
  17. Sugar plums
  18. Conversation hearts
  19. Milk chocolate bar
  20. Dark chocolate bar
  21. White chocolate
  22. Chocolate truffles
  23. Peanut butter cups
  24. Chocolate raisins
  25. Malted milk balls
  26. Chocolate coins
  27. Peppermint bark
  28. Chocolate nonpareils
  29. Rocky road
  30. Buckeyes
  31. Bridge mix
  32. Peanut brittle
  33. Butter toffee
  34. Honeycomb toffee
  35. Pecan pralines
  36. Jordan almonds
  37. Sesame seed candy
  38. Cotton candy
  39. Candy apple
  40. Caramel apple
  41. Popping candy
  42. Wine gums
  43. Jelly babies
  44. Licorice allsorts
  45. Humbugs
  46. Pear drops
  47. Barley sugar
  48. Seaside rock
  49. Aniseed balls
  50. Mint imperials
  51. Sherbet powder
  52. Coconut ice
  53. Scottish tablet
  54. Turkish delight
  55. Halva
  56. Brigadeiro
  57. Konpeito
  58. Dragon's beard candy
  59. Tanghulu
  60. Turrón
  61. Churchkhela
  62. Salty licorice
  63. Marrons glacés
  64. Calissons
  65. Dalgona
  66. Chikki
  67. Fudge
  68. Marshmallows
  69. Candy corn
  70. Circus peanuts
  71. Candy pumpkins
  72. Divinity
  73. Marzipan
  74. Butter mints
  75. Maple sugar candy
  76. Gummy bears
  77. Gummy worms
  78. Sour belts
  79. Peach rings
  80. Cola bottle gummies
  81. Gumdrops
  82. Jelly beans
  83. Fruit sours
  84. Candied orange peel

Results

  1. 1. Fudge

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Spin the Wheel Candy: 84 Kinds of Candy: how it works

This wheel holds 84 kinds of candy, from gummy bears and candy corn to honeycomb toffee and Turkish delight, with no brands. Tap a group such as Chocolate first: 84 names on one wheel are too small to read. Many cards note nuts, gelatin, egg or dairy, but a card with no note is not a promise.

A party bag in six spins

Pick Elimination and spin six times. Each winner leaves the wheel, so you shop for six different candies. For a summer party outdoors, skip the Chocolate group, which goes soft in a warm bag long before a lollipop does.

Misleading names, and candy to make at home

Red licorice contains no licorice extract. White chocolate has cocoa butter but no cocoa solids. Saltwater taffy holds no seawater and sugar plums no plum, while circus peanuts taste of banana. Several of the 24 candies in Can be made at home, such as butter toffee and honeycomb toffee, are little more than boiled sugar. Toffee syrup reaches 300°F, hot enough to burn badly, so an adult handles the pot.

Tips

  • Buying for a class? Use Tally and spin once per person: the tally gives rough quantities for the shopping list.
  • Recipes differ by maker, so read the packet for anyone avoiding nuts, egg, milk, sesame, wheat or gelatin.
  • For a tasting night, spin British sweet shop, then From around the world: 25 sweets, from pear drops to churchkhela.

Questions and answers

Which candies are usually gelatin-free?

In the usual recipes, gumdrops are set with pectin, jelly beans with pectin or starch, and Turkish delight with starch. Marshmallows, candy corn, circus peanuts, wine gums, jelly babies, licorice allsorts and most gummies usually contain gelatin, though some makers use pectin or agar. Recipes differ, so the packet decides.

Can I spin the candy we already have?

Yes. Open My list and type one candy per line, twice if the bowl holds a lot of it. On Halloween that makes a candy spinner for the front door: each trick-or-treater spins for a piece, and anyone who cannot eat it swaps. After trick-or-treating, siblings can pool the haul, choose Elimination and take turns: each spin names the candy the next person takes.

Which results should I skip for very young children?

The CDC's list of choking hazards for young children names round or hard candy, jelly beans, caramels, gum drops, gummy candies, chewy fruit snacks, chewing gum and marshmallows. That covers most of the Hard candy, Gummies and Chewy groups. The CDC adds that its list may not include every risky food. This wheel is a game, not feeding advice, so follow the CDC page.

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All 84 candies

Fairground and fizzy 4

  • Candy apple A whole apple on a stick dipped in red cinnamon sugar syrup cooked to the hard crack stage. A Newark candy maker made the first batch in 1908.
  • Caramel apple A whole apple on a stick dipped in soft caramel. Rolled in chopped nuts it becomes a taffy apple. The coating is made quite differently from a candy apple's. The caramel contains dairy.
  • Cotton candy Sugar melted and spun through tiny holes into fine strands. The machine was invented in 1897 by a dentist and a confectioner, and the candy sold as Fairy Floss at the 1904 World's Fair.
  • Popping candy Hard candy with pressurized carbon dioxide bubbles trapped inside. The bubbles burst with a crackle as the candy dissolves on the tongue.

Brittle, toffee and nuts 6

  • Butter toffee Sugar or molasses caramelized with butter and heated to the hard crack stage, 300 to 310°F. The very buttery kind made with almonds is sold in the United States as English toffee. Contains dairy and often nuts.
  • Honeycomb toffee Baking soda stirred into hot sugar syrup gives off gas, and the foam sets as a rigid sponge. Called cinder toffee in Britain and hokey pokey in New Zealand.
  • Jordan almonds Almonds in a hard pastel sugar shell. As wedding favors they come in fives, for happiness, health, longevity, wealth and fertility. Contains almonds.
  • Peanut brittle Sugar boiled to the hard crack stage, around 300°F, with peanuts stirred in, then poured thin and broken into pieces. Contains peanuts.
  • Pecan pralines The New Orleans praline: sugar, butter, cream and pecans cooked until thick, close to fudge. Louisiana cooks swapped pecans for the almonds of the French original. Contains pecans and dairy.
  • Sesame seed candy Sesame seeds bound with sugar or honey and pressed into a ball, bar or wafer, anywhere from chewy to crisp. Sesame is a common allergen.

Chewy, gum and licorice 7

  • Black licorice twists Flavored with extract of licorice root, often with anise oil. Large daily amounts can raise blood pressure, so keep portions small. The rope is bound with flour or starch, gum arabic or gelatin, so read the label if you avoid wheat or gelatin.
  • Bubble gum Invented in Philadelphia in 1928. It is pink because diluted red was the only dye the inventor had to hand.
  • Gumballs Balls of gum sold from coin-operated machines. The CDC lists chewing gum as a choking hazard for young children.
  • Nougat Whipped egg white sweetened with sugar or honey, with nuts and sometimes candied fruit folded in. Contains egg and usually tree nuts.
  • Red licorice twists The same chewy rope, but with no licorice extract in it. The name comes from the shape and the chew, not the flavor. It is bound the same way, with flour, starch or gelatin, so the same label check applies.
  • Saltwater taffy Pulled until full of tiny air bubbles, then cut and wrapped in wax paper. Sold around Atlantic City since the 1880s, and it contains no seawater. Usually made with butter, so expect dairy.
  • Soft caramels Milk or cream, sugar and butter cooked no hotter than the firm ball stage, about 250°F, which keeps them chewy. Contains dairy.

Gummies, jellies and fruit 9

  • Candied orange peel Citrus peel simmered in sugar syrup until the syrup replaces the water in the peel. The method has been used to preserve fruit since the 14th century.
  • Cola bottle gummies Bottle-shaped gummies with a cola flavor. Sour-coated, lime and mint versions exist too. Usually set with gelatin.
  • Fruit sours Marble-sized balls with a soft center and a glazed shell, mildly tart from citric and malic acid. Usually sold loose by weight.
  • Gumdrops Sugar-coated domes set with pectin. The spice-flavored kind are sold as spice drops.
  • Gummy bears Bear-shaped fruit gums first made by a confectioner in Bonn, Germany, in 1922. The classic recipe sets with gelatin, so vegetarians should read the label.
  • Gummy worms The worm shape dates from 1981. Most are set with gelatin, though some makers use pectin, starch or agar to suit vegetarians.
  • Jelly beans A soft sugar shell around a gel center set with pectin or starch. In the US they have been an Easter candy since about the 1930s, thanks to the egg shape.
  • Peach rings Ring-shaped gummies rolled in sugar or sour powder. Peach is the best-known flavor; green apple and melon rings are sold too. Usually set with gelatin.
  • Sour belts Flat chewy strips under a coat of sour sugar, which is plain sugar mixed with citric, tartaric or malic acid. Recipes vary by maker, so read the label.

Soft, creamy and fluffy 9

  • Butter mints Soft mints with a higher butter content that dissolve quickly in the mouth, also sold as dinner mints. Contains dairy.
  • Candy corn Three-colored kernels first made in the 1880s and once sold as Chicken Feed. The usual recipe includes honey, sesame oil and gelatin.
  • Candy pumpkins Mellow creme pumpkins with an orange body and a green stem, made in starch molds by much the same process as candy corn.
  • Circus peanuts Peanut-shaped orange marshmallow candy that tastes of banana, not peanut. A penny candy since the 19th century. Contains gelatin.
  • Divinity Whipped egg white, corn syrup and sugar, close to nougat. Pecans are so common in it that it is known as a Southern candy. Contains egg and usually nuts.
  • Fudge Sugar, butter and milk cooked to the soft-ball stage; below 240°F it will not set properly. Students at Vassar College made it a campus craze in the late 1800s. Contains dairy.
  • Maple sugar candy Maple sap boiled well past the syrup stage and sold in pressed blocks. A tradition of Canada and the northeastern United States.
  • Marshmallows Sugar, water and gelatin whipped until soft and springy. Vegetarian versions use agar. Toasted over a fire, one is the middle of a s'more.
  • Marzipan Sugar and ground almonds, often shaped and painted as tiny fruit. Marzipan from Lübeck and from Toledo has protected status in the EU. Contains almonds.

Hard candy and lollipops 11

  • Butterscotch discs Translucent yellow wrapped candies. True butterscotch is brown sugar and butter boiled to the soft crack stage, and its early history belongs to Doncaster, England. Contains dairy when made with real butter.
  • Candy canes Peppermint stick candy with a hook, white with red stripes. Children's magazines described candy canes hanging on Christmas trees by 1882.
  • Conversation hearts Small pressed sugar hearts printed with short messages for Valentine's Day. Printing sayings on candy goes back to 1866.
  • Jawbreakers Called gobstoppers in Britain. Layers of sugar are built up in rotating heated pans over several weeks. Not for young children.
  • Lemon drops Boiled sugar rolled into ropes, cut small and tossed in sugar. English confectioners found that the lemon's acid also stopped the syrup from crystallizing.
  • Lollipops Hard candy on a stick, also called a sucker or a lolly. One account credits a New Haven candy maker who began mounting hard candies on sticks in 1908.
  • Ribbon candy Thin strips of hard candy folded into waves, sold around Christmas in North America. It shatters when bitten and turns sticky in a warm, humid room.
  • Rock candy Large sugar crystals grown on a string or stick hung in a supersaturated syrup. The crystals need six to seven days to form.
  • Starlight mints Round white hard mints with red or green rays running out from the middle, also called pinwheel mints.
  • Stick candy Straight barber-pole sticks in flavors such as root beer, horehound, clove and wintergreen. It was on show at a Massachusetts exhibition in 1837.
  • Sugar plums No plum inside. They are small round or oval hard sugar candies, traditionally built up around a seed, nut or spice, and named for their size and shape. Check for nuts.

British sweet shop 12

  • Aniseed balls Small, hard, dark red sweets with a strong aniseed flavor that last a long time in the mouth. The center is normally a single rapeseed.
  • Barley sugar A yellow or orange boiled sweet traditionally made with barley water and sold as twisted sticks.
  • Coconut ice Desiccated coconut, condensed milk and sugar pressed into a slab, usually one pink layer on one white. Contains dairy.
  • Humbugs Striped boiled sweets, usually peppermint and often black and white. Records of them go back to the 1820s.
  • Jelly babies Soft jelly sweets shaped like plump babies, first made in Lancashire in the nineteenth century. Like most gummy sweets, they contain gelatin.
  • Licorice allsorts An assortment first produced in Sheffield: licorice with coconut, aniseed jelly and fruit flavorings. The recipe includes gelatin. Licorice is usually bound with flour, so read the label if you avoid wheat.
  • Mint imperials White round mints with a hard shell and a softer middle, also called scotch mints or pan drops.
  • Pear drops Pink and yellow boiled sweets. The flavor comes from two esters, one that tastes of pear and one of banana.
  • Scottish tablet Sugar, condensed milk and butter boiled to the soft-ball stage and left to crystallize. Grainier and more brittle than fudge. Contains dairy.
  • Seaside rock A stick of boiled sugar, usually peppermint, with the name of the resort running through its whole length, so it still reads after a bite.
  • Sherbet powder A fizzy powder of sugar, an edible acid and a carbonate, which react on a wet tongue. Eaten by dipping a lollipop or a licorice stick.
  • Wine gums Firm fruit gums stamped with names such as port, sherry and claret. Despite the name they usually contain no alcohol. Usually set with gelatin.

Chocolate 13

  • Bridge mix Nuts, raisins and cremes coated in milk and dark chocolate and sold mixed. One theory ties the name to the card game bridge. Contains nuts and dairy.
  • Buckeyes Peanut butter fudge dipped in chocolate with a circle left bare, so it looks like the nut of the Ohio buckeye tree. Contains peanuts, and recipes often add butter, so check for dairy.
  • Chocolate coins Foil-wrapped chocolate stamped with a coin design. Given to children at Hanukkah, hung on British Christmas trees and handed out at Chinese New Year. Usually milk chocolate, so expect dairy.
  • Chocolate nonpareils Flat chocolate drops with the top covered in tiny sugar balls. Known as freckles in Australia and jazzies in Britain. Milk chocolate ones contain dairy.
  • Chocolate raisins Single raisins in a shell of milk, dark or white chocolate. A movie theater candy, as is its cousin the chocolate-covered peanut. Milk and white coatings contain dairy.
  • Chocolate truffles A hand-rolled ball of ganache, which is chocolate and cream, coated in cocoa powder, coconut or chopped nuts. Named because it looks like the truffle fungus. Contains dairy and sometimes nuts.
  • Dark chocolate bar Chocolate liquor, cocoa butter and sugar, with a higher share of cocoa than milk chocolate. The basic recipe has no milk, but check the label for traces.
  • Malted milk balls A center flavored with malted milk powder under a chocolate coat. Malted milk is made from malted barley, wheat flour and milk, so expect gluten and dairy.
  • Milk chocolate bar Cocoa, sugar and milk, and the most eaten kind of chocolate. Contains dairy.
  • Peanut butter cups A molded chocolate shell, usually milk chocolate, around a peanut butter filling. Contains peanuts and usually dairy.
  • Peppermint bark Crushed candy canes in white chocolate, often over a layer of dark chocolate. A Christmas season candy. Contains dairy.
  • Rocky road Marshmallows, nuts and sometimes dried fruit set in melted chocolate. Contains nuts, gelatin from the marshmallows, and dairy if the chocolate is milk chocolate.
  • White chocolate Cocoa butter, sugar and milk solids, with none of the brown cocoa solids. US rules require at least 20% cocoa butter before a bar can be sold under this name. Contains dairy.

From around the world 13

  • Brigadeiro Brazil's party sweet: condensed milk, cocoa powder and butter rolled in chocolate sprinkles. The name comes from a brigadier's 1945 presidential campaign. Contains dairy.
  • Calissons Almond-shaped sweets tied to Aix-en-Provence: a paste of candied melon and ground almonds under royal icing. Contains almonds.
  • Chikki Indian brittle of peanuts set in jaggery or sugar. Sesame, puffed rice and cashew versions are named after their main ingredient. Contains peanuts.
  • Churchkhela Georgian strings of walnuts or hazelnuts dipped in thickened grape must and hung to dry in the shape of a candle. Contains nuts.
  • Dalgona A South Korean street candy from the 1960s: melted sugar puffed with baking soda, pressed flat and stamped with a shape to nibble around.
  • Dragon's beard candy A Chinese handmade candy of sugar and maltose syrup pulled into fine strands around peanuts, coconut and sesame. Contains peanuts and sesame.
  • Halva The sesame kind is tahini with sugar or honey, dry and crumbly. Sunflower seed halva is popular in Eastern Europe. Sesame is a common allergen.
  • Konpeito Tiny bumpy Japanese sugar balls. Portuguese traders brought the technique in the 16th century, and a batch takes 7 to 13 days of turning and syrup.
  • Marrons glacés Whole chestnuts candied in sugar syrup and glazed, a confection that began in France or Italy.
  • Salty licorice Licorice flavored with ammonium chloride, called salmiakki in Finland. Astringent and salty, and common in the Nordic countries and the Netherlands.
  • Tanghulu Northern Chinese skewers of hawthorn fruit in a clear, hard sugar shell. Strawberries, blueberries and mandarin oranges are common now.
  • Turkish delight Lokum is a gel of starch and sugar, so the traditional recipe needs no gelatin. Often flavored with rosewater, bergamot or lemon. Premium kinds are packed with pistachios, hazelnuts or walnuts, so check for nuts.
  • Turrón Spanish Christmas nougat of honey, sugar, egg white and toasted almonds. Alicante turrón is hard with whole nuts; Jijona is soft, the almonds ground to a paste. Contains almonds and egg.

How this list was compiled: An original list of generic candy types written for this site on 2026-09-18, sorted by texture, by where the candy comes from and by whether a home cook can make it. No brand or product names are listed. The starting point was en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_candies, from which only generic, unbranded entries were used. What each candy is made of, where it comes from and the dates quoted were checked on 2026-09-18 against the candy's own English Wikipedia article, for example en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gummy_bear, /wiki/Gummy_candy, /wiki/Sour_sanding, /wiki/Jelly_bean, /wiki/Taffy_(candy), /wiki/Salt_water_taffy, /wiki/Caramel, /wiki/Bubble_gum, /wiki/Liquorice_(confectionery), /wiki/Candy_cane, /wiki/Mint_(candy), /wiki/Butterscotch, /wiki/Rock_candy, /wiki/Gobstopper, /wiki/Sugar_plum, /wiki/White_chocolate, /wiki/Chocolate_truffle, /wiki/Peppermint_bark, /wiki/Buckeye_candy, /wiki/Chocolate_coin, /wiki/Malted_milk, /wiki/Fudge, /wiki/Marshmallow, /wiki/Candy_corn, /wiki/Circus_peanut, /wiki/Toffee, /wiki/Honeycomb_toffee, /wiki/Praline_(nut_confection), /wiki/Dragée, /wiki/Cotton_candy, /wiki/Candy_apple, /wiki/Sherbet_(powder), /wiki/Rock_(confectionery), /wiki/Wine_gum, /wiki/Jelly_Babies, /wiki/Turkish_delight, /wiki/Halva, /wiki/Brigadeiro, /wiki/Konpeitō, /wiki/Turrón and /wiki/Churchkhela. Allergen words (nuts, peanuts, sesame, egg, dairy, gelatin, wheat, gluten) describe the usual recipe only and are not complete: a note with no allergen word is not a promise, recipes differ by maker, and the packet label is the authority. The list holds 84 candies. Two entries in the first draft were removed on 2026-09-18 because the page is directed to children: chocolate coffee beans (caffeine) and cherry cordials (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate-covered_cherry says liquid fillings often include cherry liqueur). English toffee and butter toffee were merged into one entry, following /wiki/Toffee. The choking-hazard list quoted on the page is from the CDC, cdc.gov/infant-toddler-nutrition/foods-and-drinks/choking-hazards.html, checked 2026-09-18. Licence: own work