4 Essential Types of Summer Candy For Your Outdoor Parties Sweet Services Blog (2024)

FAQs

What candy to have at a summer party? ›

Fruity candies are always a hit, so consider offering a selection of gummy fruit slices, fruit-flavored jelly beans, and fruity hard candies. Incorporate summer classics like salt water taffy, popsicles, or even cotton candy into your candy buffet lineup.

Candies such as Lemonheads, Red Hots, and Atomic Fireballs are each individually wrapped, which creates a barrier and protects the candy from the hot temperatures outside. And, because pan candy is on the harder side itself, it's less likely to melt when you take it out of its packaging.

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Common items in this category include fudge, taffy, hard candy, gummy candy, and jelly beans.

Hard candies– especially those that are individually wrapped like peppermints, strawberry buds, fruit drops, sour balls, and Jawbreakers— should keep exceptionally well and not create a mess in your care package. Other sugary candies like Lick-n-Dips and Pixie Sticks should not melt either…

According to Simply Sweet, in the United States, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and M&M's reign supreme, whereas citizens of France, Mexico, and Egypt are more likely to opt for gum.

Because excessive softness in candy results from high relative humidity, cook hard candies, such as nut brittle, to 2 degrees higher than the temperature your recipe calls for. The additional 2 degrees in cooking temperature will compensate for moisture in the air, so your candy will still have the correct texture.

A heat resistant chocolate designed not to melt in warm temperatures has been patented by confectionery giant Mars. Scientists at the company believe that by using a cocoa butter alternative they can create a chocolate bar that can withstand warmer climates.

What can replace hard candy? ›

White chocolate contains the most powdered milk and milk fats of the three types. As a result, has the lowest melting point. Containing no cacao solids and around 20% cocoa butter, white chocolate melts at 37-43°C.