The 20 Best Bulk Halloween Candy Buys to Nab Ahead of Spooky Season
Fall has officially arrived, which means it won’t be long before you’re getting gentle raps on your door from pint-sized Disney characters, ghouls and goblins galore. Once you’ve picked out the perfect costume and decorated your humble home for the occasion, there’s just one thing left to do—pick up all the best bulk Halloween candy to fill your trick-or-treaters’ buckets! As anyone who’s ever received licorice in their bag will tell you, however, not all sweets are created equal. Here’s some tips for becoming that one house on the block that everyone wants to flock to.
Offer variety: Since the best candy flavor really comes down to personal preference, make sure you’ve got a wide variety on hand to dole out, from chocolate and gummies to hard candies and jelly beans. The choices are deliciously endless, and kids and adults alike will appreciate the option to pick their favorites.
Get the most boo for your buck: When shopping in bulk, make sure that you are picking up enough. If you are expecting a large number of visitors this season, you might want to overshoot a little … or a lot, if you're feeling a little snacky as well!
Packaging: Look for individually wrapped, sealed items not only for safety, but for sanitation, too. Beyond that basic rule, themed boxes or jars will look great if you intend to leave them out on your porch or display them during a holiday fête.
Allergies: It's always a good idea to keep the candy that you are bringing to work or handing out to little ghosts and ghouls allergy-friendly. Watch out for common allergens, such as milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat and soybean.
Read on to find some of the best bulk Halloween candy to pick up for the spooky season.
The Best Bulk Halloween Candy At a Glance
Best Candy Variety Pack: Twizzlers, Jolly Rancher and Sour Patch Kids Variety Pack
Best Classic Candy: Brach's Candy Corn
Best Candy Flavor Variety: Airheads Assorted Flavors Variety Pack
Best Scary Halloween Candy: Frankford Halloween Gummy Candy Body Parts
Best Mix Candy: Brach's Kiddie Mix Variety Candy
Best Gum: Dubble Bubble Gum Bucket
Best Sour Candy: Warheads Extreme Sour Candy
Best Candy with Peanut Butter: Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkins
Best Spicy Candy: Atomic Fireballs Candy Tub
Best Chewy Candy: Skittles, Starburst and Life Savers Variety Pack
Best Allergy-Free Halloween Candy: Enjoy Life Foods Halloween Chocolate Minis
Best Hard Candy: Jolly Rancher Assorted Bag
Most Fun Candy: Sour Patch Kids and Swedish Fish Variety Pack
Best Colored Candy: M&M'S Ghoul’s Mix Halloween Candy
Best Peanut-Free Candy: Tootsie Pops Wild Berry Candy
Best Organic Candy: YumEarth Organic Fruit Drops Hard Candy
Best Toy Candy: PEZ Halloween Dispensers
Best Full-Size Candy Variety Pack: M&M's, Snickers, 3 Musketeers, Skittles and Starburst Variety Pack
Most Unique Candy: Charms Fluffy Stuff Cotton Candy
Best Creepy Candy: Bee Halloween OOZing Eyeballs Candy
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1. Twizzler, Jolly Rancher and Sour Patch Kids Variety Pack
Best candy variety pack
There's something for everyone in this fun mixed pack of sweet treats that's stuffed with a whopping 330 (!) individually wrapped candies. The array of Twizzlers Twists and Pull 'n' Peels, Sour Patch Kids and Jolly Rancher hard candy, chews and lollipops are sure to make your house a popular stop on Halloween night.
2. Brach’s Candy Corn
Best classic candy
Candy corn is practically synonymous with Hallowen candy—it was invented around 1880 and even has its own National Day on October 30th. Love it or hate it, these sugary little kernels, which are made with real honey, are a must-have every Halloween. Pick up this 2.5-pound bag to keep you in the spooky spirit through the holiday—and beyond!
3. Airheads Assorted Flavors Variety Pack
Best candy flavor variety
These signature chewy bars come wrapped and have a wide variety of tastes, including watermelon, blue raspberry, cherry, orange, grape and a White Mystery Flavor that will be fun for little trick-or-treaters to try out. This large box holds 60 pieces, which are free of most major allergens, such as milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, soy, fish, shellfish and wheat. They are also kosher, gluten-free and low-calorie.
4. Frankford Halloween Gummy Candy Body Parts
Best scary Halloween candy
Put a terrifying-yet-tasty treat into those Halloween bags this season with these gruesome gummies. These fun and fearsome snacks come in a variety of body parts, like fingers, feet, brains, ears and eyeballs, that are sure to gleefully gross out your guests. Add them to a spooky-themed dessert for an even more delightful fright.
5. Brach’s Kiddie Mix Variety Candies
Best mix candy
Brach's has been making candied goods for the last 117 years (!) and in this bright 175-piece variety pack, the brand showcases a number of the sweets that made them famous. Popular options, such as Trolli Sour Brite Crawlers Minis, Trolli Sour Brite Eggs, Rain-Blo Pops, Lemonheads, chewy Lemonheads, Super Bubbles and Now and Laters, are featured in this mixed bag that’s sure to make kids smile, even from under their face masks. In fact, there are so many varieties of candy in this package, every handful is sure to be different from the last.
6. Dubble Bubble Gum Bucket
Best gum
If you want to shake things up a little this holiday, make your offerings stand out from the sea of candy and chocolates that will be handed out by tossing some bubble gum into those trick-or-treat bags instead. Big smiles and big chews will abound with this huge baseball dugout-style bucket, which comes with an impressive 340 individually wrapped pieces of the classic chewing gum.
7. Warheads Extreme Sour Hard Candy
Best sour candy
Packaged in a conveniently large tub are 240 pieces of some of the most sour candies on the planet. Warheads contain both citric and malic acid, which is how they achieve their signature tartness. This mega-package has all the flavors you want, including apple, black cherry, blue raspberry, lemon and watermelon. Dare your family or friends to try it this Halloween to see if they can stand the super-sour taste.
8. Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkins
Best candy with peanut butter
Lovers of Reese's peanut butter cups will go nuts for these peanut butter pumpkins. Not only do they have the same great taste as the originals, but they also come in cute little jack-o-lantern shapes, which will be perfect for Halloween soirees or themed snacks around the home. This pack comes with 60 bars that weigh .6 ounces each.
9. Atomic Fireballs Candy Tub
Best spicy candy
If you feel like enjoying more tricks than treats this year, then grab this 4-pound tub of Atomic Fireballs. The wildly hot cinnamon jawbreakers have a Scoville heat rating of 3500 units—that’s equivalent to a hot jalapeño! The tub comes with 240 pieces of individually wrapped candy that will be sure to take your Halloween fun to a whole new level and surprise anyone with more heat than they’ll likely expect.
10. Skittles, Starburst and Life Savers Variety Pack
Best chewy candy
Bursting with flavor and offering the perfect bite with every piece, this variety pack of fun-sized snacks from Mars, Incorporated boasts chewy Skittles and Starburst that are slightly easier on the chomps than your run-of-the-mill candy, plus Life Savers for those who like a little more crunch.
11. Enjoy Life Halloween Chocolate Minis
Best allergy-free Halloween candy
Play it safe this Halloween with a fun treat that is allergy-friendly. These single package rice milk chocolate minis are made with all-natural ingredients, like cane sugar, cocoa butter, unsweetened chocolate and dried rice syrup. The delicious treats are also non-GMO project verified, certified gluten-free and certified vegan.
12. Jolly Rancher Assorted Bag
Best hard candy
If your house sees its fair share of visitors on Halloween, then this massive 5-pound bag of Jolly Rancher hard candy will be sure to please. Each bag contains 360 pieces of brightly colored candy, which has long-lasting flavors, like green apple, blue raspberry, watermelon, cherry and grape. The range of colors would also make for a delightfully decorative bowl this season.
13. Sour Patch Kids and Swedish Fish Variety Pack
Most fun candy
Why not add some tastebud-tingling, eye-pleasing fun to the treat bucket scene with these fun shapes? With this bag, you’ll get 115 individually wrapped soft and chewy little fish and mischievous-looking children. The Swedish Fish are bursting with fruit flavor, while the Sour Patch Kids come through with a blast of sugary tartness.
14. M&M'S Ghoul’s Mix Halloween Candy
Best colored candy
Add some ghoulish glee to your snack bowl this year with this 62-ounce monster tub of spooky-themed M&M's. The seasonal green, purple and orange candies may look a little different than your run-of-the-mill M&M’s, but they have the same classic chocolatey taste of the original treats. Use them to decorate a haunted gingerbread houses or leave them out during your next haunted get-together.
15. Tootsie Pops Wild Berry Candy
Best peanut-free candy
Nut-related sensitivity is definitely a concern when it comes to Halloween treats, so be safe by opting for this peanut-free candy, which everyone can enjoy. You’ll get 100 Tootsie Pops that have a hard candy wild berry coating in flavors such as Cherry Berry, Apple Berry, Blackberry, Mango Berry and Blueberry, all with a chocolate Tootsie Roll center.
16. YumEarth Organic Fruit Drops Hard Candy
Best organic candy
Looking out for the health of spooky snackers this season, but still want to give them something sweet? These fruit drop hard candies are not only super tasty, they’re also made from healthier ingredients, including organic cane sugar, organic brown rice syrup and citric acid. With cleverly named natural flavors, such as Pomegranate Pucker, Mango Tango and Wet-face Watermelon, they’ve already got our mouths watering.
17. Pez Halloween Dispensers
Best toy candy
Get all the fun of the original PEZ, but with a spooky twist. This 12-pack of Pez dispensers makes for a fantastic way to give your trick-or-treaters an adorable bonus toy that will also cater to their sweet teeth. It features witches, vampires, ghosts, pumpkins and mummies, each of which come with two sleeves of candy refill packs. They’re gluten and peanut-free, too, so you can feel safe giving them away.
18. M&M’s, Snickers, 3 Musketeers, Skittles and Starburst Variety Pack
Best full-size candy variety pack
You know that one house on the block that every trick-or-treater marks as a shining beacon on their Halloween route because they give out the big candy? That could be you when you pick up this assorted box of 30 full-size bars. It has a tempting array of chocolatey snacks, like M&M's, Snickers and 3 Musketeers, as well as chewy fruity treats, like Skittles and Starburst. Go big or go home, we say!
19. Fluffy Stuff Cotton Candy
Most unique candy
Not just for carnivals, these cute 1-ounce bags of cotton candy will definitely make your house one to watch on the Halloween circuit. Unlike traditional cotton candy, which needs to be eaten fairly quickly, this product is specially packaged in air-sealed, moisture-resistant bags to maintain its freshness and fluffiness. It also comes in multi-colored fruity flavors, which are Kosher, as well as gluten and peanut-free.
20. Bee Halloween OOzing Eyeballs Candy
Best creepy candy
Your visitors won’t be able to look away from these awesome-but-gruesome devilish ocular marshmallows. Dubbed “oozing eyeballs” (eek!), they’re filled with jam in blood-curling flavors such as Blood Berry, Bruise Berry and Gore Grape. Not for the faint of heart, this bag comes with 38 wrapped pieces and is sure to cause a silly scare this season.
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