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The best Halloween candy isn’t just for trick-or-treaters. We all should be able to enjoy some spooky treats in the month of October (and beyond, because that’s when the candy goes on sale and you can buy a ton for cheap!). But what is the best Halloween candy to buy? Well, we tried all the new Halloween candy out in 2025 to find out.
Halloween candy used to be limited to smaller versions of everyday candy. But in 2025, the folks making Halloween candy have stepped up their game. There are new flavors, creative packaging, and interesting textures. There are objects that ooze, sweets that scare, and candies that will haunt your dreams! Okay, probably not. But they are spooky and fun—and there’s more than just chocolate!
You probably know all the classics and have your favorites, so, when it came to picking the best Halloween candy to buy in 2025, we exclusively focused on candies that were new (or at least new to us). Looking for the best candy corn, Halloween chocolate, Halloween gummies, or big ol’ bags of minis for handing out to trick-or-treaters? We’ve got you covered in other rankings. But if you’re looking for the best new Halloween candy to buy this year, keep scrolling.
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- Reese’s Mini Pumpkins
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Everyone in our orbit who has tried Reese’s Mini Pumpkins has had some version of this reaction to them: These things…don’t look like pumpkins. My colleague Justine Sterling said they look like “fat toes with tiny toenails” and I’m still trying to recover from it! They’re flat on the bottom and they’re a weird shape, but all the same, they’re Reese’s and Reese’s candies are good. They’re not our favorite Reese’s creations ever, but these unwrapped peanut butter-filled little toes are the best Halloween candy for your private stash or desk drawer.
Read the full review of Reese’s Mini Pumpkins
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- Ghirardelli Jack O’ Lanterns Chocolate Assortment
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If you only have, like, five trick-or-treaters come around each year (and you happen to live in a neighborhood full of children with discerning taste), you could treat them to these fancy little individually wrapped Ghirardelli chocolates. Yeah, the wrappers make them great for trick or treaters, but this is also the best Halloween candy for adult party guests. Shape-wise, the little jack o’ lanterns stacked atop one another are adorable. And this mix has three flavors, including one we’d never tried before: caramel apple! (The others are milk chocolate and caramel.) I know. Chocolate and caramel apple seems weird, right? But it works. Not completely. But enough that you’ll want to eat a few of these as fall turns to winter.
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- Hi-Chew with Mystery Flavor
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Hi-Chew isn’t new. Obviously. And they’ve probably made a trick-or-treat-appropriate mix in the past, but we’d yet to see a Hi-Chew Halloween mix with a mystery flavor. The mystery flavor is the draw here. At first I thought it tasted like fruit punch, but we decided cherry-lime was more accurate. Oh, and the bag also has Watermelon, Blue Raspberry, and Candy Apple. It’s the best Halloween candy for mystery flavor freaks.
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- Albanese Ghoulish Gummies
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Do you love Albanese gummy bears? We do. But these Albanese Halloween gummies are a little different. These are all matte—Justine doesn’t like matte gummies, but I can’t relate. They’re black, orange, and white (black cherry, orange, and strawberry banana, respectively). All of them are good, but the white ones are especially pleasing if you’re a millennial who glorifies the matte white sharks in a packet of Shark Bites (RIP). This isn’t the best Halloween candy for trick-or-treat purposes, but they’re fun to throw in a bowl at a party. They’re cute! The white are little ghosts, the black are little bats, and the orange gummies are little jack o’lanterns.
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- Sour Punch Twists Halloween Pack
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Sour Punch Twists (not to be confused with Sour Punch Straws) are Twizzlers-esque, but they come one to a mini pack instead of two to a mini pack. The chew is good and there’s a lot of sugary sour powder on them. The flavors are insane. One of them is called prickly pear, but there is an image of a Bartlett pear on the bag, so we think prickly is just a spooky descriptor since the other flavors are Midnight Mystery, which we couldn’t quite put a finger on, and then Monster Melon. No, not watermelon…CANTELOUPE. The flavors will surely throw some kids for a loop (a ‘loupe?), but we loved how bold and creative they are. Also, these are sour but not too, too sour. If you want the best sour Halloween candy, look at the next entry on this list.
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- Skittles Shriekers
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Skittles knows sour candy. We’ve done two separate taste tests of sour candy, and Sour Skittles came out on top after both. If you’re a freak for truly sour stuff, we highly recommend Skittles Shriekers, which come in both individual bags and big bags full of little fun-size bags for trick-or-treaters. The bag says “some are so sour they will make you shriek,” which I think indicates that some of them are not sour, but all the ones I ate were sour—and I mean sour! And not outside sour like Sour Skittles—they’re sour inside! When you start chewing they’re sweet but then they get ya. I like it! The flavors are good, too, if not groundbreaking: Rattled Raspberry, Ghoulish Green Apple, Spine-Tingling Tangerine, Citrus Scream, and Shocking Lime.
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- Kit Kat Halloween Lovers Assortment
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This is the best Halloween candy mix. Did we try every single Halloween candy mix? No. But listen. Everyone loves Kit Kat. And this has so many good ones! You get regular, Ghost Toast, Witch’s Brew, and Counts. Counts are the only new info here—they are cute and the little vampire shape is very detailed, but the ratio of chocolate to wafer is just a little bit off. There’s too much chocolate for the amount of wafer and, frankly, Kit Kat chocolate isn’t that great. It’s good in context but it’s also very sweet. But the mix is so good here. My personal fave is Witch’s Brew, a great seasonal offering with a coating that really tastes like marshmallow and is the sort of pale, sick green that looks like it would glow in the dark. Ghost Toast is great, too. Everyone thought they were a little too cinnamon-y this year, but I still like them. On their own, Kit Kat Counts might not be the best Halloween candy, but we love this trick-or-treat mix as a whole.
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Justine Sterling
