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Top-Selling Candy From Around the World

Are trick-or-treaters in a candy rut? Year after year, kids come home with bags full of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, Snickers, Twizzlers, and M & M's. Isn't it time to switch things up? The editors over at YumSugar have rounded up the top-selling candies from around the world -- from Bounty to ToffeeCrisp to a Yorkie bar (but what's with the Yorkie's "It's Not For Girls!" slogan?). This Halloween, bust out and get your hands on some of these delicious international treats.

Top-Selling Candy From Around the World

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Scary Treats and Healthy Eats - The Kansas City Star in 60 Seconds

halloween candy corn

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Filed under: Newspapers, In Sixty Seconds, Food News, Holidays

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History of Classic Candy

by Steven Stern

Abba Zabba! Chick-O-Stick! Goo Goo Cluster! Pearson's Nut Goodie!

Get the secret histories of the most popular Halloween candy -- and some crazy classics -- just in time for the sweetest holiday of 'em all.


Think you know a thing or two about your friends' and neighbors' Halloween candy habits? Take our Halloween Candy Quiz.

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Editor's Picks - Best of the Rest


Homemade candy corn. Photo: NoshWithMe, Flickr.

A few of the best stories spied elsewhere on the Web this week:


Why buy bags of Brach's when you can make your own gorgeous Halloween candy?

A chain of Spanish-American restaurants in Brooklyn and Queens offers seafood-loaded and tequila-spiked "Viagra" soup.

A recent study published in the Journal of Neuroscience is the first to show that eating and drinking act as painkillers by way of distraction.

The new "Hell's Kitchen" Nintendo game requires players to chop food and drop it into pots, but surprisingly does not involve swearing and smoking.

Move over Starbucks, Wolfgang Puck is introducing bottled Culinary Iced Coffees made with organic ingredients.

In the latest Todd English news, his former fiancée, Erica Wang, turned herself in to the police today, after he filed assault charges against her.

Filed under: On the Blogs

Halloween Treats - Malted Milk Eyeballs


malted eyeballs
Malted milk eyeballs.
Photo: Monika Bartyzel.
With sweet ghost blondies and brownie bats out of the way, it's time to focus on more ghoulish fare that's not usually found on the Halloween table: Malted Milk Eyeballs.

Unfortunately, these aren't 100-percent true malted milk balls with that Whoppers-like crunch -- rumor has it those are made in a vacuum to achieve the right texture. We don't have a vacuum, nor are we interested in mass experimentation with sponge toffee to concoct something similar, so we're relying on taste. And that classic flavor is easy to recreate at home. You can buy malted milk powder in most supermarkets.

Just a bit of that powder and some chocolate (white chocolate in this case, to get the eyeball color), and soon you'll be surrounded by eerie rolling eyeballs just waiting to be devoured.
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