I have a thin hard shell and a soft middle, and I am shaped like the bean I am named for. In spring I hide in plastic eggs and paper grass. What am I?
I am pulled and folded, pulled and folded, until I am full of air and soft to chew. At the seashore I am sold as salt water, though I am not made with seawater. What am I?
I am a waterfall you can eat. Warm chocolate runs down my tiers, and guests hold strawberries and marshmallows under it. What am I?
What kind of bar is every child allowed to visit?
I am sugar and butter boiled together until the pot reaches what candy makers call the hard crack stage. Nuts are often stirred into me. What am I?
I am the fat of the cocoa bean. I am solid on the shelf, and I melt at about the warmth of your mouth. What am I?
I am a candy nobody swallows. Long ago I was made from chicle, the sap of a tree, and people have been chewing me ever since. What am I?
I am a small round of chocolate with ridged sides, like a tiny pie, and I sit in a paper cup. My filling is made from peanuts. What am I?
Long ago I was sold under the name Chicken Feed. I am a small kernel in three colors, and every fall I come back. What am I?
A common story says I got my hook in 1670, when a choirmaster in Germany asked a candy maker for sugar sticks bent like a shepherd's staff. What am I?
These riddles about candy run from a lollipop and a gumdrop to a truffle and a candy cane. Many turn on how a candy is made or how it got its name, and the line under the answer says so.
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Four sets, one for each kind of candy
Choose Lollipops, gum and hard candy, Chocolate, Chewy and gummy or Holiday candy. The holiday set runs through the whole year, from candy canes and Hanukkah gelt to jelly beans, sugar skulls and candy corn.
Easy for the youngest, hard for a candy expert
Easy riddles describe a candy a child has held: a lollipop, a gummy bear, cotton candy. Hard ones ask how a candy is made or named, such as why a truffle is called a truffle.
Put a bowl of mixed candy on the table, and let whoever guesses right choose a piece.
Questions and answers
What is a good riddle about candy?
I have a head and one thin leg, and I never walk. Every lick makes my head a little smaller, until only the leg is left. What am I? A lollipop.
What is a riddle about chocolate?
I am called chocolate, and I am not brown. I am made from the butter of the cocoa bean, with sugar and milk, and none of the dark part. What am I? White chocolate.
Are there riddles about Halloween, Christmas and Easter candy?
Yes, in the Holiday candy set: candy corn and candy pumpkins for Halloween, candy canes, ribbon candy and peppermint bark for Christmas, and jelly beans, chocolate bunnies and marshmallow chicks for Easter.
I am a candy nobody swallows. Long ago I was made from chicle, the sap of a tree, and people have been chewing me ever since. What am I?Answer: Chewing gum. Chicle, a tree sap, was the base of chewing gum before modern gum bases.
I am a flat sheet of hard sugar with nuts caught inside. Nobody slices me: I am broken into pieces. What am I?Answer: Peanut brittle. Brittle is hard sugar candy with nuts, broken into pieces.
I am a golden disc in a twist of yellow cellophane. My flavor comes from brown sugar and butter cooked together. What am I?Answer: A butterscotch candy. Butterscotch is made mainly of brown sugar and butter.
I am a hard ball built up from thin layers of sugar, and each layer may be a different color. Lick me, and I change color as I shrink. What am I?Answer: A jawbreaker. A jawbreaker, or gobstopper, is made of many layers.
I am a pink cloud on a paper cone. A machine spins me out of sugar and air, and I melt the moment I touch your tongue. What am I?Answer: Cotton candy. Cotton candy is spun sugar. In Britain it is candy floss, and in Australia fairy floss.
I am a red and white pinwheel that never spins. I wait in a bowl by the door of a restaurant, wrapped in clear plastic. What am I?Answer: A peppermint. A round peppermint has red and white stripes that swirl like a pinwheel.
I am covered in a powder that bites back. Your eyes squeeze shut, your mouth pulls tight, and then you reach for another one of me. What kind of candy am I?Answer: Sour candy. The sour powder comes first and the sweet comes after.
I am jewelry you are allowed to eat. My beads are sugar, my string stretches, and I get shorter the longer you wear me. What am I?Answer: A candy necklace. The beads are bitten off one at a time.
I am sugar and butter boiled together until the pot reaches what candy makers call the hard crack stage. Nuts are often stirred into me. What am I?Answer: Toffee. Toffee is sugar and butter heated to the hard crack stage.
I am sugar that grew. A string was hung in sweet water, and crystals gathered on it day after day until I looked like a lump of glass. What am I?Answer: Rock candy. Rock candy is large sugar crystals grown on a string or a stick.
I am yellow, shaped like a small fruit and rolled in sugar. First I make you pucker, and then I turn sweet. What am I?Answer: A lemon drop. A lemon drop is a sugar-coated, lemon-flavored hard candy, often shaped like a lemon.
I begin as a pot of boiling sugar syrup. When nearly all the water has cooked away, I cool as hard and clear as glass. What kind of candy am I?Answer: Hard candy. Hard candy is syrup boiled until almost no water is left.
I have a glass head full of colored balls. Feed me a coin and turn my handle, and one ball rolls out. What am I?Answer: A gumball machine. One coin buys one gumball.
I have a head and one thin leg, and I never walk. Every lick makes my head a little smaller, until only the leg is left. What am I?Answer: A lollipop. The head is the candy and the leg is the stick.
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I am a chocolate teardrop with a flat bottom. I go into the oven inside a ball of cookie dough. What am I?Answer: A chocolate chip. Chocolate chips are often made in a teardrop shape, and they are best known in cookies.
I am a pale, dusty film on chocolate that was kept too warm or too long. I look like mold, and I am only fat or sugar that has come to the surface. What am I?Answer: Chocolate bloom. Bloom is fat or sugar on the surface of chocolate.
I am a red fruit in a brown coat that went hard as it cooled. My green leaves are left bare, and they are my handle. What am I?Answer: A chocolate-covered strawberry. The berry is dipped in melted chocolate and held by its leaves.
I am a small round of chocolate with ridged sides, like a tiny pie, and I sit in a paper cup. My filling is made from peanuts. What am I?Answer: A peanut butter cup. A peanut butter cup is a chocolate shell around a peanut butter filling.
I am a soft ball of chocolate, often rolled in cocoa powder. I am named after a lumpy fungus that grows underground, because I look like one. What am I?Answer: A chocolate truffle. The chocolate truffle is named for the truffle fungus it looks like.
I am a soft, sweet square made of sugar, butter and milk. In the late 1800s I was a craze at women's colleges in the United States, where students made batches of me. What am I?Answer: Fudge. Fudge became popular at American women's colleges late in the 19th century.
I am a waterfall you can eat. Warm chocolate runs down my tiers, and guests hold strawberries and marshmallows under it. What am I?Answer: A chocolate fountain. A chocolate fountain keeps melted chocolate flowing over tiers for dipping.
I am an egg-shaped pod up to a foot long. Inside me, packed in white pulp, are 20 to 60 beans, and those beans are what chocolate is made from. What am I?Answer: A cacao pod. A cacao pod holds 20 to 60 seeds, which are called cocoa beans.
I am called chocolate, and I am not brown. I am made from the butter of the cocoa bean, with sugar and milk, and none of the dark part. What am I?Answer: White chocolate. White chocolate has cocoa butter and no cocoa solids.
I am the bitter one of the family. I have more cocoa in me than either of my cousins, and I am made without the milk that one of them is named for. What kind of chocolate am I?Answer: Dark chocolate. Dark chocolate is cocoa, cocoa butter and sugar, with a higher share of cocoa than milk or white chocolate.
I am the fat of the cocoa bean. I am solid on the shelf, and I melt at about the warmth of your mouth. What am I?Answer: Cocoa butter. Cocoa butter melts at about body temperature.
I start as a bitter bean inside a pod on a tree in a hot country. Roasted, ground and mixed with sugar, I become the sweetest thing in the store. What am I?Answer: Chocolate. Chocolate is made from roasted and ground cacao beans.
My name is the French word for good, said twice. I am a small candy, and I am often coated in chocolate. What am I?Answer: A bonbon. Bonbon doubles the French word bon, which means good.
What kind of bar is every child allowed to visit?Answer: A candy bar. It is a bar of candy, not a place.
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I am a bear small enough to sit on a fingertip. Hold me up to the light, and you can see right through me. What am I?Answer: A gummy bear. Gummy bears are small, chewy and clear.
I am a black twist or a long black rope. My taste comes from the root of a plant, and people either love me or leave me in the bowl. What am I?Answer: Licorice. Black licorice is flavored with the root of the licorice plant.
I am a paste of ground almonds and sugar. Candy makers shape me into tiny fruits and paint me until I look real. What am I?Answer: Marzipan. Marzipan is almond meal and sugar, often shaped into fruits.
I am a ring that no finger wears. I am half yellow and half orange, I am coated in sugar, and I taste like a summer fruit with a fuzzy skin. What am I?Answer: A peach ring. A peach ring is a gummy candy with a peach flavor.
I am a small dome of jelly rolled in sugar. In December I become a button, a doorknob or a roof tile on a gingerbread house. What am I?Answer: A gumdrop. Gumdrops are a common decoration on gingerbread houses.
I am a soft cube, often flavored with rosewater, and I am dusted with powdered sugar so that I do not stick to my neighbors. My English name has a country in it. What am I?Answer: Turkish delight. Turkish delight is a gel of starch and sugar, cut in cubes and dusted with sugar.
I am named for a plant that grows in marshes, because I was once made from it. Today I am sugar, gelatin and air. What am I?Answer: A marshmallow. The first marshmallows were made from the marsh mallow plant.
I am pecans cooked in brown sugar, butter and cream, dropped from a spoon to set in a flat round. The South of the United States is known for me. What am I?Answer: A praline. The American praline is made with pecans, sugar and cream.
I am pulled and folded, pulled and folded, until I am full of air and soft to chew. At the seashore I am sold as salt water, though I am not made with seawater. What am I?Answer: Taffy. Salt water taffy is pulled to fill it with air, and it is not made with seawater.
I am shaped like a peanut, colored like an orange and flavored like a banana, and I am made of marshmallow. What candy am I?Answer: A circus peanut. Circus peanuts are orange, peanut-shaped marshmallow candies with a banana flavor.
I am the pale, chewy layer inside many candy bars. I am whipped up from sugar or honey, egg white and nuts. What am I?Answer: Nougat. Nougat is made with sugar or honey, nuts and whipped egg white.
I am what sugar turns into when it is heated until it goes brown. Add cream and butter, and I become a soft square in a twist of clear wrapper. What am I?Answer: Caramel. Caramel is made by heating sugar.
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A common story says I got my hook in 1670, when a choirmaster in Germany asked a candy maker for sugar sticks bent like a shepherd's staff. What am I?Answer: A candy cane. The story of the choirmaster of Cologne is told often and is not proven.
At Hanukkah, children win me in a game played with a spinning top. I am a coin, and under my foil I am chocolate. What am I?Answer: Hanukkah gelt. Chocolate coins called gelt are the stakes in the dreidel game.
I am a baby bird made of marshmallow. I am yellow all over with colored sugar, and I have two dots for eyes. What am I?Answer: A marshmallow chick. Marshmallow chicks are a spring candy.
I am a pumpkin the size of a thumbnail, and nobody carves me. I am made in much the same way as candy corn, and I show up at the same time of year. What am I?Answer: A candy pumpkin. Candy pumpkins are made in much the same way as candy corn.
I am a rabbit that never hops. Tap me, and I sound hollow. I sit in a basket in spring until somebody breaks off my ears. What am I?Answer: A chocolate bunny. Many chocolate bunnies are hollow.
I am a ribbon that nobody can tie. I am hard sugar, as thin as glass, folded back and forth in waves, and I come out at Christmas. What am I?Answer: Ribbon candy. Ribbon candy is a hard candy folded into waves, sold at Christmas.
I am a skull made of sugar and bright with icing. Families set me out for the Day of the Dead, sometimes with a name written across my forehead. What am I?Answer: A sugar skull. Sugar skulls, or calaveras, are made for the Day of the Dead.
I am a small bag handed to each guest at the end of a birthday party. Open me in the car, and candy falls out. What am I?Answer: A goody bag. A goody bag is the party favor a guest takes home.
I am an egg that no bird laid. I am wrapped in bright foil, and I am found in the grass on one spring morning. What am I?Answer: A chocolate egg. Chocolate eggs are hidden for an Easter egg hunt.
I am thrown from a float by a waving stranger. I land by the curb, and every child on the sidewalk runs for me. What am I?Answer: Parade candy. People on parade floats toss candy to the crowd.
I am two layers of chocolate, one dark and one white, with crushed candy cane scattered on top. I am broken into pieces, not cut. What am I?Answer: Peppermint bark. Peppermint bark is chocolate topped with pieces of peppermint candy.
I have a thin hard shell and a soft middle, and I am shaped like the bean I am named for. In spring I hide in plastic eggs and paper grass. What am I?Answer: A jelly bean. Jelly beans have a soft candy shell and a gel middle, and they are an Easter candy.
Long ago I was sold under the name Chicken Feed. I am a small kernel in three colors, and every fall I come back. What am I?Answer: Candy corn. Candy corn was first sold as Chicken Feed.