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Well with only one more day before Christmas Day 2016, we’d like to wish all of our amazing customers and friends a very Happy Christmas from your favourite sweet shop! This year has been a really incredible one. We’ve continued to grow and flourish. This has enabled us to further extend our product range and…
Well it’s a very unusual theme for a blog from a very busy Devon Sweet Shop in the week before Christmas… The hot topic in store today, started by our lunch and Sophie’s choice of jacket potato filling is beans or tomatoes. Sophie loves beans – even going as far as to eat them cold…
Daffy-down-dilly, our award winning sweet shop is now inviting expressions of interest for one of our sweet shop franchises! Interesting? Read on! Why would you consider buying a sweet shop franchise when you could set up in business on your own? Well, the biggest clues to your potential success if you buy a franchise are…
Daffy-Down-Dilly has created a fantastic range of American candy hampers and retro sweet UK hampers. All of our sweet hampers are available to buy online from our UK award winning sweet shop! Our Retro sweet hamper selection are filled to bursting with the best selection of retro sweets. Including Anglo Bubbly, Flying Saucers, Black Jacks, Fruit Salads. Refreshers, Pear Drops,…
The children having gone back to school after a very busy summer season. It’s time for us to start planning our autumn and winter season. Both in store and at our online sweet shop at DaffyDownDilly Confectioners. There’s a place for sweets at every turn of the calendar and we like to be prepared. So…
Our fabulous American candy selection box is available to buy online from our UK award winning sweet shop. We are delighted to introduce our American candy selection box, a fantastic choice for anyone who loves or wishes to try a carefully chosen assortment of bestselling American candy. All beautifully presented in a quality gift box,…
Having spent the morning making rather a lot of party bags for special customer orders it is clear that sweet cone bags are an increasingly popular choice. Both as gifts in their own right, and also as a take home party bag for children’s parties and weddings. Our online sweet shop makes it possible to…
So Daffy-down-dilly Confectioners is now in it’s third year of trading as an Award Winning sweet shop and online sweet shop. Providing our customers with the facility to buy sweets online– awesome huh? Fancy a bit of background reading as to why we started our beautiful sweet shop and subsequent online sweet shop? Read on…
Right lovely ones, I have a genuine question for you. Now Sidmouth Folk week is over, it’s our traditional time to start planning our Christmas in store sweet offers. Designing new American candy hampers and this years ‘in’ sweet gift. We have a cracking traditional sweet Christmas Eve pack in mind for this year –…
We’re so proud and happy to report that DaffyDownDilly’s award winning sweet shop is growing. Our Award Winning Sweet shop and Online sweet shop offering customers the opportunity to buy sweets online are super popular. And to support that growth we have a strong and knowledgable team in place to ensure that our strong standards…
The rise of challenge level mega sour sweets is truly amazing. There will always be a place for traditional and retro sweets of course, but our younger cutomers particularly are very much looking for the extremes in confectionery. If you’re up for a sweet challenge we’ve got just the sweets for you. Whether you want…
Our Award Winning sweet shop is sure to have just the sweet treat you’re looking for whether you prefer to buy sweets online or in store. From the very best in sour and fizzy sweets, gummy and jelly sweets, American chocolate, retro sweet hampers and American candy hampers. To quality traditional sweets and retro sweets,…
The perfect ideas for Father’s Day presents! Well already it’s June… amazing! In all the shop hustle and bustle and preparation for the hectic summer season in Devon, time is genuinely flying! Our stockroom and shelves are filled to bursting and new staff are building up confidence and speed as they go – we’re looking…
We love our selection of American sweets, candy and foods from across the pond. The colourful packaging and weird and wonderful flavours and concepts make a really interesting and diverse choice. Especially good if you’re looking to reminise about a wonderful American holiday, or just looking for something a little different. It make the most…
In our quest to find the nation’s favorite sweet, it’s the turn of Jelly and gummy sweets this week to face our popularity test… We love jelly sweets… from soft and squishy Jelly Bones to Giant Strawberries, Happy Cherries to Baby Dolphins. Jelly sweets are timeless and not restricted by any means to our younger…
Last week was a tale of two halves for me at Daffydowndilly. Tuesday, working on my own, was a quiet day but I still needed my sense of humour, which gave me the chance to have a bit of a sort out in the stock room. Sunday, on the other hand was busy busy busy…
So our Traditional Sweets section is super popular and growing as more and more younger people are introduced to the delights of Sherbet Lemons. Winter Mix, Grays’ Herbal Tablets and Victory V’s. Whether you prefer to buy sweets online including of course traditional sweets. Or in our award winning sweet shop you can be sure of…
There is something exciting about the arrival of sunnier days, it lifts the mood and everybody seems to have a spring in their step. Gardens are blooming and it’s almost time to dig out those flip flops and sunglasses!! So what better way to enjoy the delights of Springtime than with one of our delicious…
Well you will all know by know that we live and breathe sweets at DaffyDownDilly! There are without question standout favourite sweet choices in our shop, and we thought we’d share them with you… we have a huge range available so to make it a little bit simpler, this time I’m going to focus on…
We have been asked this week to answer a few questions about DaffyDownDilly Confectioners for the newspaper. So if you fancy a sneak preview, here you are… Please Introduce yourself. Hi, My name is Natalie Brittain and I’m a co-founder and proprietor of DaffyDownDilly Confectioners at 63 High Street, Sidmouth. I’m married to Rob and we…
My 4th day working at Daffydowndilly has flown by with a focus on American sweets! We spent most of this morning restocking our American range of goodies. Including cereal boxes of Reeces Puffs and Lucky Charms. And jars of Reeces Peanut Butter which I’m told are very popular. It has been a steep learning curve so…
Wowzers, what a busy DaffyDownDilly Easter we’ve had! So many children in with their pocket money choosing a selection of their favorite sweets… it’s been brilliant! And the number of boxes of Beanboozled jelly beans that have left the building is extraordinary. Hope you’ve all enjoyed the experience? I will never forget those flavours, that’s…
Our range of bonbons is increasing due to their increasing popularity with our customers, so I thought I’d write a little bit about them. It’s an unusual name if you think about it, that originates from German and translates as meaning candy, or sweetie. Bonbons are a real traditional sweet, with the first report of…
A recent article in the Daily Mail featured our wonderful town and some of it’s heritage. And it’s inspired me to write this time about what a fantastic place Sidmouth is to live and work in and just how lucky we are! Daffy-down-dilly Confectioners is a family business and we are local to the town.…
We are thrilled to say that our beautiful cardboard Easter Eggs are back again this year! Imported specifically by us from Germany our Easter eggs really are super special! As always, we really wanted to offer something a little different for Easter. And know from experience that children of all ages love a mix of…
This Sunday 6th March is Mother’s Day in the UK – hope you’ve all remembered!! The Day when we all offically say thank you to our Mums. No matter how old we are they remain our constants, our supports and they’re just pretty fabulous really. I’d certainly be lost without mine! These days, more and…
The Wedding Season and it’s wedding favours is fast approaching and we love it at DaffyDownDilly! It’s fabulous to be part of a couples’ plans and special day. And we take great pride in delivering quality and stunning favours and sweets. From sweets for candy buffets, to tiered Candy Cakes and individually designed favours. We…
I can’t believe it’s that time again! Pancake Day, or Shrove Tuesday to give it it’s proper name, is on Tuesday the 9th of February this year. The word ‘shrove’ derives from the English word ‘shrive’, which means to obtain absolution for your sins by making a confession and paying a penance. The custom was for…
At our Devon sweet shop, we have well in excess of 300 jars of loose sweets to choose from. And absolutely no minimum purchase requirement. So our customers are free to mix and match from our sweet treats as much as they want to! It’s well worth it when you see the smiles on particularly…
What is it about chocolate? It’s a well-known fact amongst confectioners that sales of the brown stuff always go up in the winter… We’re always interested in why our customers choose the sweets that they do. We have an awful lot to choose from so why chocolate raisins and not coated cinder toffee? Why Chewing…
At DaffyDownDilly we love designing bespoke sweet party bags for our customers. Often colour themes are in demand, and we have to admit, we have made an awful lot of Frozen themed party bags!! Our customers say that they love our matching cone gift bags and that they take away a lot of the stress…
Black and Red Jelly Berry Sweets
£1.20 – £5.20
Army and Navy Liquorice Sweets
£1.50 – £3.50
Chocolate Sweet Party Cone Bags
£2.25
Blue Raspberry Cubes
£0.99 – £2.30
Pick & Mix Green Sweets Cone Bag
£2.75 – £3.95
Pink Marshmallow Paintballs
by Senay
Spinning Tops Chocolate
by Senay
Giant Mega Snowies
by Senay
Giant Mega Pinkies
by Senay
Pink Chocolate Heart Sweets
by Senay