Candy themed "sugary sweet 16"?

Question

For my candy themed "sugary sweet 16" i need different sweets to have at my venue for my guests to indulge in! Candy, sweets, anything you can think of will help.

Answer 1

I am doing a candy themed graduation party for my sister and we are having the following on a candy bar:

Candy Necklaces

Ring Pops

Wax bottles

Gobstoppers

Pop Rocks

Blow Pops

Shock Tarts

Fun Dip

Razzles

Reeses Pieces

Hersheys Mini Candy bars

Chewy Sweettarts

Jelly  Belly's

Nerds

Jolly Ranchers

Sour Straws

Gummy Bears

Rock Candy

Tongue Splashers

Lemonheads

Skittles

M&M's - mostly regular ones, but also a small bowl of personalized ones in her school colors

In addition to that we are doing chocolate fondue with fruit, marshmallows, and cookies

For her cake we are doing a cupcake tower

You could also do mini pastries, caramel apples, and ice cream.  After searching all over the internet the cheapest place, by far, to buy bulk candy is http://www.metrocandy.com - their prices are seriously about 1/2 what they are everywhere else.  I hope this helps!

Answer 2

-Okies I don't really know that you should go making your own candy, because that will take too much effort for the birthday girl :P

-Have a large table with a white table cloth. Put a clear, glass both of jellybeans in the centre, with a  few of those large lollypops sticking out of it as your centrepeice.

-Scatter some fantales on the table (possibly, if you want to, making a game out of them, like a quiz show)

-Baby cupcakes will look (and taste) beautiful with any bright icing and a smartie or two on eat of them

Cupcakes

2 cups self-raising flour, sifted

3/4 cup caster sugar

3/4 cup milk

125g butter, melted, cooled

2 x 59g eggs, beaten

1 teaspoon Queen Natural Vanilla Essence

Method

Preheat oven to 200?C. Grease a 12 x 1/3-cup capacity muffin pan. Alternatively, line holes with paper cases. Combine flour and caster sugar in a bowl. Make a well in the centre.

Add milk, butter, eggs and vanilla to flour mixture. Using a large metal spoon, stir gently to combine.

Spoon mixture into prepared muffin pan. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Stand in pan for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool.

(cupcakes recipes work fine, just use smaller patty cases)

-Despite being an older person's bithday, don't forget the lollybags!

-Play pass the life saver. :P

-The most sugary thing of all, FAIRY FLOSS!! If you can afford to, buy a fairy floss maker and let your guests make their own!

There's just a few ideas to get you started

HAve fun

P.S I love the idea of a sugary sweet sixteenth, I want to do that for mine next year :D.

Answer 3

Cute little bags filled with your favorite Jelly Belly! Yum!

Answer 4

Gum drops are a must! And licorice. Jelly beans would probably be good too. And of course, you have to have something chocolate like Hershey's kisses. Sounds like a fun idea to me!!

Answer 5

Ehmagod! GUMMY BEARS! I LOVE THEM!

Yummmm.

And before I went vegan, I enjoyed Milk Chocolate... a lot :D

Ooh, get as many different kinds of chocolate as possible! Vanilla, Dark, Milk, etc. Then get many different colors of M&M's. Skittles are amazing. Nerds, too. Hersey Kisses :] Lollipops! :D

As for sweets- cookies are yummy :] Get chocolate chip, raisin, oatmeal, peanut butter, M&M, sugar- any other cookie you can thing of. Browns too! Ooh, cake!

:D the possibilities are endless...

Answer 6

It would be really cool to set up a whole candy 'bar' with big containers, like apothecary jars (from Michaels or walmart) and other candy jars, spice/pasta jars, anything you can find that is glass and in many different shapes and sizes, and display them on a table, some sitting on boxes to raise them up, etc. Put a table cloth over the boxes and table, and set the jars/candy dishes on it, each filled with some treat. You could fill one with those See's Candy sticks, those are my fave. You could also sort m&ms by color, it would make it look really awesome. Try to find candies/wrappers in different cool colors. Werthers for gold, Mini Almond Joys for bright blue, Gummy sour watermelon wedges for pink, etc. You can look at candy stores on the web and search by color. Then go to a craft store and buy a bunch of little colored chinese take out containers, put peoples names on them, and they can fill them with whatever candies they like.

Answer 7

I would also do an ice cream bar, get chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry ice cream and LOTS of toppings.  Sprinkles, candy you'll already have around you at the party, chocolate syrup, caramel sauce, whipped cream, cherries, etc.  

You can also do cotton candy and poporn machines or make the popcorn yourselves and find out where you can buy the cotton candy in bulk.  I'm sure if you do a search online, you'll find lots of places.  Sweet shops always have ice cream, cotton candy, and popcorn!

You can even do the soft pretzels.  They sell them in grocery stores and you can bake them off before the party and have them offered at the party.

You can go to the m&m's website and personalize your m&ms to any color and saying you want.  You can put on there your name and that it's your sweet 16 and pick the colors.  I would stick to bright colors when decorate for a surgary sweet 16.  Most sweet stores are bright colors, like hot pink or bright pink, turqoise, and white.  You could add a bright lime green and yellow, but I would stay away from the primary colors of red, navy blues, etc.  You don't want dark colors for this theme.  You could, it IS your party, but the bright colors go so much better.

Get those huge circle lollipops and put them in a vase with either jellybeans or m&ms or gumballs and make them your centerpiece.  Have them sticking out on top and make them your centerpiece at each table.

Get a few gumball machines and scatter them around the party, but make sure to have something next to them holding pennies so your guests can get the gumballs out of them!

You can get those button candies (the ones that are round and on a piece of white paper) or those ring pops, they look like a diamond ring/pacifer, and use them as napkin rings.  You would have to take them out of their wrapper, but they would make great napkin rings.  You could use licorce this way too and just tie them around the napkins.

You could also get those candy necklaces and bracelets and put them at each place setting, I'm sure the guys would want them too being they're candy.  

You can make a cupcake tower and have your guests decorate the cupcakes.  You can ice them have your guests do the rest with the candy.  

You can have a mix of hard candy, jellied candies, etc.   If you're doing this outdoors, I wouldn't do too much chocolate as it's going to melt and you'll have a huge mess! If you're having it indoors, go for the chocolate candy too.  Be careful with the gummy candy too outdoors, it will stick together in the hot air.

Sour patch kids

Gummy bears

Gumballs

m&ms all different varieties

Twizzlers

skittles

jellybelly jelly beans

candy necklaces and bracelets

Huge lollipops

charms blow pops

ring pops

lemon heads

Reese's pieces

Mike and Ikes

Peppermints

button candy

jujubees

You can go to a website called dylanscandybar.com and check out all the different she offers on her site for ideas or to buy.  She has a huge store in NYC and it's a huge sweet/candy shop.  I hope this helps and Happy Birthday!

Answer 8

These pretty pops will delight youngsters-and they are far more flavorful than the store-bought kind.

Makes 12 lollipops

Preparation time: 20 minutes

Cooking time: 20 minutes

Step 1:

Line a large baking sheet with aluminum foil, and arrange lollipop sticks 4 inches apart. In a heavy saucepan over medium heat, combine sugar, 1/2 cup water, and corn syrup, and heat until sugar dissolves. Cover and boil mixture 1 minute. Remove the cover and boil the syrup until it registers 310°F (or 98°F above the boiling point of your water) on a candy thermometer.

Step 2:

Immediately remove the saucepan from the heat and set on a rack. Let syrup cool 5 minutes, then stir in food coloring and flavoring.

Step 3:

Pour syrup in 2- to 3-inch puddles over one end of each lollipop stick. Allow candy to cool completely. Wrap each lollipop in plastic wrap.

*Oil flavorings, available at health-food stores, work better than alcohol-based extracts, which can evaporate during the candy-making process.

Ingredients

12 lollipop sticks

1 cup sugar

2 tablespoons light corn syrup

4 to 8 drops food coloring

2 to 3 drops flavoring oil, such as raspberry or lemon*

Nutritional Information

1 lollipop:

Calories 113

Saturated Fat 0g

Total Fat 0g

Protein 0g

Carbohydrate 19g

Fiber 0g

Sodium 8g

Cholesterol 0g

And you could always decorate these cute simple little pops!

Answer 9

Get lots of colorful candies and chocolates...

M&Ms, gummy bears, gummy worms, reese's peanut butter cups, hersheys kisses, sour patch kids, caramel apple pops (my personal fave!), milky maid caramel cubes, and don't forget the JELLY BELLYs!!

Happy birthday!! & have fun!

Answer 10

Go to jello.com and you will find all kinds of desserts that might help.....and jello is not fattening!!!!!!

Answer 11

FRUIT-KA-BOBS WITH CHOCOLATE DIPPING SAUCE, RASPBERRY SAUCE AND OR WHIP CREAM.  MINI CHEESE CAKES WITH A CHERRY ON TOP,  MINI ECLAIRS, AND MINI CREAM PUFFS.