Traditional Sweets Online. Indulge in the delightful world of traditional sweets online. Our esteemed online store brings you a wide assortment of authentic confections that will transport you to a bygone era. Discover the rich flavors and exquisite craftsmanship that define our collection of traditional sweets. Whether you seek classic favorites or unique regional specialties,…
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Unwrapping the History of Sherbet Lemons, a Traditional Sweet
Tucked away in the corners of sweet shops or the depths of grandmother’s candy dish, sherbet lemons are a classic favorite for many. Bursting with a tangy flavor, they offer a refreshing respite on a hot day or a delightful pick-me-up on a dreary afternoon. But have you ever wondered where these citrus treats come…
Traditional Bonbons are still a favourite at the sweetshop
Traditional bonbons remain a beloved sweet treat in confectionery stores across the globe, carrying a rich history and an irresistible charm that transcends age and culture. In this post, we delve into why these timeless candies continue to capture the hearts of both young and old, and why they remain a favorite at the sweetshop.…
The Unique Taste of Traditional Sweets: West Indian Limes
In the wide-ranging world of traditional sweets, certain treats stand out for their distinctive taste and intriguing backstory. Among these gems are West Indian Limes sweets – a confection that is as delightfully citrusy as it is rich in history. In this article, we will explore the origin, flavor profile, and traditional production methods of…
Salted Caramel traditional Bonbon sweets
Salted Caramel Traditional Bonbon sweets are a super bonbon choice. Traditional bonbons are a favourite sweet treat. At DaffyDownDilly we love the powdery coating and toffee centre of our traditional bonbons, and these are super with a scrummy salted caramel flavour. Always a popular traditional sweet in their own right, bonbons these days tend to…
Traditional Sweet Choices and Retro Sweets
Traditional and Retro sweets are consistently popular sweet choices and available through our online sweet shop. And to be honest, it’s really easy to see why! Who doesn’t love a traditional sweet? We all love a sweet that we know, that makes us feel good, that we associate with someone, or that evokes special childhood…
Koff Candy Twists Traditional sweets
Traditional sweets, our Koff Candy Twists are handcrafted and are available to our customers wishing to buy sweets online. With a soothing clove flavour, Koff Candy Twists are a traditional boiled sweet are simply perfect to ease any sore throat, but also delicious as a boiled sweet in their own right. Attractively coloured and with…
And the most popular traditional sweet is…
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…
Traditional Pineapple Rock Sweets
Our delicious traditional Pineapple Rock is so good we have now made it available to order online from our Award Winning UK sweet shop. A popular sweet often associated with memories of fabulous childhood holidays, ours is the perfect balance of sweet and citrus, not too sweet with a definite Pineapple tang. Of course, the…
Traditional Edinburgh Rock Sweets
Traditional Edinburgh Rock is available to buy online from our UK award winning sweet shop. A traditional Scottish rock, entirely different to the English variety with a crumbly texture that just dissolves in the mouth in a refreshing fruity burst. We are proud of the quality of our Edinburgh Rock and particularly fond of the…
Traditional Mint Humbug Sweets
Our Traditional Mint humbug sweets are available to buy online from our UK award winning sweet shop. Having individually wrapped mint sweets has the huge advantage of ensuring that your minty goodies don’t all stick together and we are delighted with the flavour and quality of these mint humbugs. The perfect travelling companion and handy…
Traditional Cola Bottles Jelly Sweets
Delicious traditional jelly cola bottle sweets are available to order online right now from our UK award winning sweet shop! Our jelly cola bottles are of a fantastic quality and are a clear favourite amongst fans of the good old jelly sweet. Why not try them alongside their fizzy cola bottle counterparts – the perfect…
Traditional Boiled Sweets
DaffyDownDilly have used our considerable confectionery experience to source the very best in traditional boiled sweets just for you. All available to buy from our award winning UK sweet shop. Traditional boiled sweets are so very popular. From award winning Rhubarb and Custard to Pear Drops, we have them all. So if you’re a fan of…
Bottle Shaped Sweets
We all know and love them – bottle shaped sweets are timelessly popular. From Fizzy cola bottles to Strawberry milkshake bottles… dusted milk bottles to giant blue fizzy bottles… so many choose from and always a popular choice. Let’s have a little peep at the best bottle sweets! Blue Fizzy Bottle Sweets are an absolute…
Fabulous Fruit Pips or Sherbet Pips?
Boiled fruit flavoured tiny sweets – Fruit Pips We’ve picked just two of or traditional pip sweets to look at… And we wondered which you preferred – Fruit Pips or Sherbet Pips? Individually flavoured Fruit Pips sweets are a quality traditional sweet full of fruity flavours and attractive colours. They’ve been around for such a…
Lions quality hard gum sweets
Quality liquorice sweets from Lions Delicious Lions quality hard gum sweets are a super retro sweet treat. Famous and justifiably so as Lions never compromise on quality. From Midget Gems and Lions wine gums, to liquorice gums there is something for everyone in the range. Traditional hard gum jelly sweets made by Lions Lions wine…
Mint Icy Cups
Mint Icy Cups are a delicious variant of the traditional and equally yummy Icy Cups that we all know and love! Delicious, velvety smooth chocolate flavoured with refreshing mint and individually wrapped in cute little paper cups – Fantastically tasty!
Pick and Mix Sweets
Pick and Mix Sweets – what a childhood memory! Mouthwatering selections of fizzy and jelly sweets… what was your favourite? Here’s our Top 5.. Vegan and vegetarian friendly pick and mix 5 – Haribo Yellow Bellies The king of jelly sweets, we love these fruity snake sweets 🙂 Snake shaped jelly sweets made by Haribo…
Rhubarb and Custard Sweets: A classic revisited
Rhubarb and Custard Sweets are a beloved classic, their distinctive flavor profile eliciting fond memories for many. These traditional sweets, with their sharp, tangy rhubarb mixed with smooth, creamy custard, have managed to endure the test of time. Today, we’re taking a delightful journey through their history, flavor, preparation, and their place in the present…
Chocolate Fruits Sweets
Chocolate Fruits Sweets are a delicious variety of traditional, wrapped and boiled sweets. Beautiful pastel shades of fruity, flavoursome confectionery covers a chocolate centre. A super cross between chocolate limes and sherbet fruits – Meet chocolate fruits sweets, a quality fruit and chocolate blend.
Why Grays Herbal Tablets are more than just sweets
Have you ever wondered why Grays Herbal Tablets are not just your ordinary candies? These traditional sweets are more than just an after-meal delight. They represent a long-standing history of sweetness, unique flavors, and natural goodness. From their humble beginnings to their current popularity, let’s take a deeper dive into the world of Grays Herbal…
The Intriguing Tale of Liquorice: Spotlight on Pontefract Cakes
Delve into the enticing world of candy history, where the mystique of liquorice and Pontefract cakes unfurls. This blog post guides you on a sweet journey back in time, featuring liquorice cultivation, the birth of Pontefract cakes, and their enduring popularity. Ready for a treat? Let’s go! What Exactly are Pontefract Cakes? Taking center stage…
Exploring the World of Sour, Fizzy Vegan Treats
There’s a new revolution taking the confectionery world by storm and let’s discover it as we go about exploring the world of sour, fizzy vegan treats! It’s all about sour, fizzy vegan sweets that offer a burst of flavor without compromising on your lifestyle choices. This blog post delves into this enticing world of plant-based…
How Sweetshop Treats Shaped Our Best Childhood Memories
Our lives are a tapestry woven with threads of countless memories, among which, childhood ones always hold a special place. For many of us, the sweetshop down the lane was a treasure trove of such moments, with its shelves filled to the brim with enticing treats. The scent of sugar and candy, the delightful sight…
Fizzy Fruity Bubs Vegan Sweets
If you’re a sweets enthusiast who loves indulging in sugary treats but cares about maintaining a vegan lifestyle, Fizzy Fruity Bubs Vegan Sweets is your dream come true. These aren’t your run-of-the-mill, mass-produced candies. Bubs sweets are delightful, fizzy, and fruity, giving your taste buds a unique experience with every bite. Not to mention, they’re…
Giant Mega Snowies
Love Giant Sweets? Our Giant Mega Snowies certainly fit the bill! Snowies are popular and delicious white chocolate traditional sweets, covered in colourful sprinkles, and these are just that… only much larger! Often paired with Jazzies, the milk chocolate counterpart and Pinkies – definitely check these out if you haven’t seen them before… you have…
Giant Mega Jazzies
Our Giant Mega Jazzies are a popular retro sweet – exactly the same in flavour and design as the traditional Jazzles Jazzies The obvious difference though – they are much. much bigger! So if you love your jazzies chocolate flavours – these are absolutely worth adding to your sweet selection! Still covered in the beautiful…
Watermelon Sweets
Delicious and colourful watermelon jelly sweets So so popular, watermelon sweets are flying off the shelves and into your homes! So we thought we would gather all of our favourites into one place and talk a little bit about them and what makes our watermelon sweets so very special. Watermelon jellies are so attractive with…
Orange and Lemon Slices Vegan Sweets
Orange and Lemon Slices Vegan Sweets are fruity and delicious jelly sweets. Soft and filled with zingy orange and lemon flavours they’re perfect for topping cakes, adding to your jelly sweet pick and mix or just enjoying! Traditionally popular at Christmas but more and more all year round as a fruity sweet treat. Our lemon…
Fruit Jellies Gift Box – Vegan sweets
Our Fruit Jellies Gift Box is an absolutely delight 🙂 1 kilo of soft and fruity shaped and flavoured traditional sweets coated in a light sugar dusting. Absolutely delicious and far too good to keep for just Christmas! Made with all natural colours and flavours and suitable for vegans and vegetarians too, these sweets of…
Red Sweets
Red Sweets are popular all though the year and have a natural boost around Valentines Day as romantic and themed gifts are delivered throughout the country. Our Favourite? Thats’s an easy one – we love soft and squishy red lips Jelly sweets Juicy and fruity jelly sweets in the shape of red lips Deliciously soft…
Snowies and Jazzies
Always chocolate favourites – Snowies and Jazzies are distinctively delicious. Little button shaped chocolate rounds with colourful sprinkles to one side. White chocolate discs covered in sprinkles Snowies are, of course, the white chocolate version – sweet and creamy chocolate that we all know and love and we have them available in various size bags,…
Pink Sweets
Looking for the best in quality pink sweets? We can certainly help with our extensive and delicious range of the pinkest hues in the most varied confectionery! Pink chocolate hearts are a super choice, one of our darker pink sweet choices and with a super strawberry flavour and colourful sprinkles they are definitely not just…
Fizzy Cola Sweets
Fizzy Cola Sweets are a tip top favourite choice amongst our customers and indeed our fizzy sweets range wouldn’t be the same without them! Let’s start with a look at the new kids on the block – Fizzy Cola skulls from Bubs 🙂 Absolutely the most amazing texture with these sweets, firm, fizzy and chewy…
Apple Sweets
Fruity apple sweets are a firm favourite with us all 🙂 Tangy, sour and mouthwatering we have a great range to choose from at Daffydowndilly so you can stock up on your fruit bowl pick and mix favourites. Teeny tiny little fruity sweets with the flavour of apple Green sweets are surprisingly difficult to get…
Jujubes Liquorice
Jujubes Liquorice are delicious, salty Dutch Liquorice pieces – smooth and attractively shaped they are a quality, traditional and classic Dutch liquorice choice. You can find our delicious liquorice range including gifts by clicking here.
A Sugar-free Sweet Christmas
Sugar-free Christmas sweets? Look no further… A fast-growing proportion of our customers are interested in our huge range of sugar-free sweets. I thought it a good idea to write a little about our fantastic sugar-free Christmas sweets range. And the opportunity to buy sugar-free sweets online for awesome Christmas gifts. For those who are diabetic…
Blue Raspberry Twist Kisses
Blue Raspberry Twist Kisses look and taste delicious! Blue sweets are always popular at DaffyDownDilly and these blue and white versions of traditional red and white twist kisses are so striking! Fruity, squishy and so tasty, these jelly sweets are a must have and we’re proud to add them to our sweets and treats selection.
Liquorice Cuttings
Liquorice Cuttings are a traditional and delicious liquorice form. We love liquorice at Daffydowndilly and pride ourselves on our extensive and delicious range of liquorice. An absolute must have for any liquorice fan, liquorice cuttings are part of our childhood memories – absolutely delicious and seriously moreish flavour. To see our huge range of liquorice…
Fizzy Pineapple Sweets
Delicious Fizzy Pineapple Sweets are a fruity, fizzy dream of a sweet. Fancy a change from delicious and traditional Pineapple Cubes? Well, Fizzy Pineapples are a great choice. Fizzy, fruity and absolutely packed with fizzy pineapple flavours they taste as good as they look. Sporting traditional pineapple colours and shapes, these fizzy sweets will make…
Teeth and Lips Jelly Sweets
Well these jelly sweets make a super change from Cherry Lips… Delicious soft jelly lips and comical and tasty teeth too! Teeth and mouth themed sweets are always popular, think of the traditional powdered milk teeth for a start – and jelly smiles too!
Love Cherry Flavoured Sweets?
Cherry Flavoured sweets are some of our absolute favourite confectionery! Why? They are full of fruity cherry sweet deliciousness, fizzy cherries or fruity jelly cherries we don’t mind – we love them all! Mention a cherry sweet and probably the famous Haribo Happy Cherry pops into mind. That soft jelly sweet in it’s twin cherry…
Animal sweets – they’re crazy good!
Delicious jelly animal sweets in the shape of dolphins Booming ever increasingly popular is our range of animal sweets and we wanted to bring them all together so you can choose your favourites with ease 🙂 So we wanted to start with the ever popular jelly sweets in the shape of Giant Dolphins – soft…
Anaconda Snake Jelly Sweets
Along a similar line to Haribo’s Yellow Bellies, Vidal have produced Anaconda Jelly Sweets! Delicious and realistic snake jelly sweets with a fruity flavour and a lasting flavour. Perfect for Halloween of course, but also a super addition for animal lovers and those building their own jelly sweet pick and mix selection. Animal sweets are…
West Indian Limes
The most delicious lime flavoured sweets we have ever tasted! West Indian limes are a traditional boiled sweet with a strong and tart lime flavour that it utterly mouthwatering… even the smell is enough to get your tongue tingling! Ours are individually wrapped to so they don’t get sticky and this makes them the perfect…
Strawberry Milkshake Dusted Bottles
Strawberry milkshake dusted bottles are traditional milkshake flavoured bottle sweets with a light powder dusting. Truly full of delicious strawberry flavours that make your mouth water and in a traditional bottle sweet shape, strawberry milkshake bottles are a favourite retro sweet with children of all ages!! A definite must for your pick and mix or…
Bond’s Liquorice Sticks
Bond’s liquorice sticks are a traditional soft liquorice with a crunchy and colourful contrasting pink topping. Made very different by the addition on bright pink nonpareil – that’s the crunchy little balls that you find on snowies and jazzies for those who aren’t in the know already. There’s an interesting history to the name actually…
Small Shrimps and Bananas
Small shrimps and banana sweets have traditional sweet flavours written all over them! We know you love shrimps and bananas and thought we’d combine these little beauties together for your enjoyment. Raspberry flavour shrimps and banana flavoured bananas – no surprise there!! In combination we think they’re an unbeatable stroll down memory lane and we’re…
Red Liquorice Sticks
Always a popular choice, red liquorice sticks are a delicious addition to your pick and mix sweet selection. These traditional liquorice sticks are manufactured by Bonds and have a super cherry flavour. They are both gelatine and gluten free and the tasty soft liquorice is perfectly offset by the crunchy and bright yellow nonpareils. Like…
Best Flavour Sweets!
What’s top of the best flavour sweets? So many delicious flavours to choose from… modern and traditional sweets are so varied and full of fruity flavour – we thought we’d have a look at the most popular sweets and put together a top three most popular sweet flavour chart 🙂 At number three – it’s…
Easter Sweets and Treats
Easter sweets and treats – after a long winter, there really is nothing more beautiful than Spring 🙂 We love the sight of Daffodils and blossom at DaffyDownDilly and Sidmouth, where we are based is a fabulous place to enjoy the seasons! This year we have collected a wonderful selection of Spring and Easter sweets…
Fizzy Sweets
Over the last few weeks I’ve been looking at the most popular sweets in our retro and traditional sweets section. My view? To identify the UK’s favourite sweets and this week it’s the turn of fizzy sweets – yum! Easily the most popular sweets particularly with our younger customers, our fizzy sweets are a real…
Liquorice Selections at DaffyDownDilly
Regarding Liquorice selections, It’s been a real surprise for us just how popular liquorice is in the UK and we thought we would take the opportunity to feature some of our bestselling licorice lines. No longer just the favourite sweet at Christmas and Father’s Day, liquorice is popular all year round and with a colourful…
DaffyDownDilly Chocolate Choices…
Always popular and always delicious… chocolate. It’s a thing isn’t it? And we have plenty to choose from at DaffyDownDilly so I thought a top 5 of the most popular chocolates would be a great little project! At number 5 in the popularity stakes, please welcome Milk Chocolate Honeycomb! Real milk chocolate coats delicious crunchy…
600g Liquorice Pick and Mix
Love Liquorice? You will love our Liquorice pick and mix selection bag. 600g of quality assorted liquorice all mixed for you in a traditional pick and mix format, just this time it’s only liquorice… and nothing else. Packed to order in a quality clear bag you will find a selection of 8 different liquorice pick…
Bonbons Galore
Delicious traditional bonbons… As we get going again after the Christmas and New Year confectionery craziness, I wanted to take things back to basics a bit and look at our unsung heroes amongst our sweets. These really have to be topped by Bonbons… ever popular and delicious they are a constant top seller and we…
Snowies and Jazzies chocolates
Jazzies and Snowies chocolates with sprinkles on the top Always at the tip top of the chocolate choices, Snowies and Jazzies deserve a feature of their very own… White chocolate Snowies and milk chocolate Jazzies are the quintessential childhood memory of sweetshops. Those colourful sprinkles that add a crunch to delicious chocolate flavoured buttons always…
DaffyDownDilly’s A-Z of sweets :)
Ready for our A-z of Sweets? We do love a good list at DaffyDowndilly and thought we’d do an alphabet list challenge… although we have hundreds and hundreds of different types of sweets, this was not as easy as we thought!! If you can spot the obvious mistake(s) and give us a sweet solution we’d…
Chocolate Pandas
Super cute chocolate pandas from DaffyDownDilly! Delicious chocolate and cream flavoured chocolates in the shape of pandas 🙂 Perfect as part of your pick and mix sweets selection or absolutely fantastic as cake toppers or panda party gifts! Traditional sweet flavours with a modern chocolate twist.
DaffyDownDilly International Sweets
Oh so exciting! International sweets orders are here Our fantastic web development team – credits later, have been super busy behind the scenes doing what they do best. As the world becomes more and more focussed online, DaffyDownDilly is proud to announce we are now able to accept online international sweets orders. Wowzers we hear…
Boost your teams morale with corporate gifting
Corporate gifting – Extraordinary times or no, it’s crucially important to recognise the efforts and hard work of your team. We have all needed to be super flexible and responsive over the last year or so to the quickly changing dynamics in the workplace and office of the global pandemic. And haven’t we all risen…
Blueberry Creams
Our blueberry creams are crumbly fruity delights We love these traditional Scottish confections! Bright blue, and with a delicious fruity tang they are similar in texture to a mint crumble. Blueberry flavour definitely and this with a fresh and zingy tang that makes a refreshing change from the sweet. Made in Scotland for donkeys years…
500g Gift Box of quality assorted liquorice
And here it is – our half-sized Gift Box of quality assorted liquorice You’ve been asking and we’ve been sorting 🙂 So we proudly introduce our 500g Gift Box of quality assorted liquorice. One of our most popular products at DaffyDownDilly is our kilo box of liquorice – perfect for gifts and treats. However, for those…
Fizzy Dracula Teeth Sweets
Fabulously fizzy sweets in the shape of Dracula teeth are here! Traditionally a favourite Halloween sweet, fizzy teeth are too good to wait for we think, so here they are – available any time as part of our fizzy sweets selection! Fruity in flavour and with a good sour sweet tang, these are a favourite…
Blackcurrant Bonbon Sweets
Fruity and chewy, we’re big fans of Blackcurrant Bonbons at DaffyDownDilly! We love the onset of the sweet bonbon with the tang and slightly sour edge of the blackcurrant flavour – yum! These bonbons are the modern type, fruity and chewy all the way through – if you’re looking for traditional bonbons – please click…
Easter pick and mix sweet kilo gift box
DaffyDownDilly celebrates Easter with our Easter pick and mix sweet kilo gift box. Our Easter Bunny themed kilo sweet gift box is full with quality sweets and nothing else. Traditionally a time for chocolate at DaffyDownDIlly we increasingly see customers looking for a good quality gift box with a fabulous pick and mix of fizzy…
Liquorice Flower sweets
Liquorice Flower sweets are at our online sweet shop now! We love Liquorice at DaffyDownDilly and we know you do too… so how pretty are these? A more unusual Liquorice offering – liquorice shaped into a flower shape and filled with fondant. Delicious and definitely one to try if you’re a liquorice lover. To have…
Fizzy Cola Bottles
Fizzy Cola Bottles are such a popular fizzy sweet mix we thought we’d do a little blog about them! So if you’re a fan of the fizzy bottle this is for you! At DaffyDownDilly it’s hard to miss the enduring popularity of the fizzy cola bottle in any fizzy sweets pick and mix. Without doubt…
Sweet Valentines gifts at DaffyDownDilly
1 kilo of pick and mix sweets in a Valentines day gift box with flower sticker Sweet Valentines at DaffyDownDilly. Valentines Day is traditionally a busy time of year for a sweet shop and online sweet shop. And this year looks set to be no exception! Who wouldn’t want to receive a beautiful hamper full…
Retro Sweets
So we have seen a massive resurgence in the popularity of Retro Sweets at DaffyDownDilly Confectioners, Sidmouth. Black Jacks, Flying Saucers and Fruit Salads of course are always popular. So add to the list Candy necklaces, Snowies and Jazzies and funny Money and you have a Retro sweet treat ready to go! So what makes…
Apple Bonbons
Apple bonbons are deliciously fruity bonbons and they’re fab! Why are our apple bonbons so popular? Well, we all love an apple flavoured sweet and they’re actually quite hard to come by. However, these are sweet, sharp and refreshing, in fact everything you’d hope for from an apple flavoured sweet. In the form of a…
Coconut Marshmallow
Who doesn’t love a coconut marshmallow? If you’re a coconut fan these will be right up your street! Delicious pink and white soft, puffy, pillowy cushions of marshmallow coated in coconut. Absolutely delicious traditional coconut marshmallow sweets! Perfect for toasting over the campfire or making your s’mores even more interesting.
Dusted Milk Bottles
Our dusted milk bottles are a traditional sweet favourite. What could be finer than this timeless classic? These are the proper Barratt ones; made by Barratt. We think they are the most delicious of all bottle-shaped sweets. They have a really smooth and silky dusting that coats a sweet, milky, creamy milk bottle. Delicious traditional…
Top 10 sweets we can’t be without!
It’s time for a top 10 sweets round up! One question we get asked all the time is ‘What is your most popular sweet?’ and so…here is our DaffyDownDilly list of the top 10 sweets of all time… 🍬 🍫 🍭 Of course to add a little anticipation and drama we’re counting backwards… Number 10…
Mixed Toffees
Mixed Toffees – a traditional favourite Delicious assorted toffee selection from Walkers. If you can’t decide which Toffee flavour is your favourite then here is the ultimate solution! Our mixed toffees contain plain chocolate covered toffee, plain toffee, milk chocolate covered toffee, Chocolate eclairs and more. A fantastic toffee collection that you can buy loose…
Chocolate gift box
All our favourite traditional chocolate gift box treat in a 1 kilo mixed gift box! Yes, you heard right… it’s 1 kilo of our favourite sweet shop chocolates – including Snowies Jazzies Pink and white mice Spinning tops Chocolate sportsballs Pink pigs White chocolate stars small chocolate eggs Fish and chips and more. I kilo…
Vanilla Fudge
Our deliciously creamy Vanilla fudge is super scruffy! Our Vanilla fudge is such an indulgent treat. Individually-wrapped traditional vanilla-flavoured fudge sweets.
Walkers chocolate eclairs
Walkers chocolate eclairs are a toffee sweet that’s hard to beat. The perfect combination of sweet toffee and creamy chocolate blends to make that traditional saviour flavour that we all know. Made by Walker, our chocolate eclairs are individually wrapped and a quality confectionery. Timeless, traditional favourite sweets.
Dark Chocolate Ginger
What a combination! Rich dark chocolate coated pieces of ginger are a dark chocolate lovers dream! Traditionally a chocolate treat for Christmas, this is absolutely not the case any more. We love dark chocolate ginger at DaffyDownDilly and we’re sure you will too. It’s a flavour combination that wakes up you’re taste buds and one…
Treacle Toffee
One of our favourite and quintessentially English traditional sweets – treacle toffee. Made by Walkers you can count on exactly the right chew on this tasty toffee. Individually wrapped of course and utterly morish.
Small chocolate eggs 1 kilo gift box – not just for Easter!
Small chocolate eggs 1 kilo gift box Our small chocolate eggs 1 kilo gift box is not just for Easter! Are you looking for chocolate? Chocolate in a gift box? Small chocolate eggs in a gift box? Small and realistic chocolate eggs packed to order in a beautiful presentation box? Hand tied with coordinating ribbons?…
The Fizzy One – our fizzy sweet gift jar filled with our awesome fizzy sweets and nothing else!
Welcome to ‘The Fizzy One’. Our fizzy sweet gift jar. A large traditional style sweet jar filled to bursting with the very best quality fizzy sweets. Now available from DaffyDownDilly Online sweet shop. Our fizzy sweet box is so incredibly popular that we thought it was time to mix it up! So we are proud…
The Liquorice One – A large sweet jar filled with Liquorice!
The Liquorice One is now available to buy online from DaffyDownDilly as well as in store in Devon! So welcome to The Liquorice One! A fabulous large traditional style sweet jar filled to the very brim and more with quality liquorice. The perfect gift or present for any liquorice lover! With a great mix of…
Vegan Fizzy Blue Babies Sweets
Scrummy Fizzy Blue babies are now available to buy online from DaffyDownDilly. Blue sweets are always super popular in our Devon sweet shop and fizzy sweets equally so. So welcome to Fizzy blue babies 🙂 And the really good news? They’re suitable for both vegetarian and vegan diets too! Excellent! Similar in design to a…
Bumper pick and mix sweets jar
Our fantastic Pick and Mix sweet jar is now available. Filled to bursting with an awesome selection of quality pick and mix sweets all arranged beautifully inside. We take a lot of time to present our range of sweet treats and gifts beautifully and our bumper Pick n mix jar is no exception. Pick and…
Fizzy and sour sweets
One of our favourite sweet shop blog subjects… delicious fizzy and sour sweets! Fizzy and sour sweets are the most popular sweets in our sweet shop and online sweet shop. And it’s easy to see why! We all love a little bit of zing and the tongue-tingling sensation that comes from truly delicious fizzy and…
SugarFree Sweets
Across Europe, Sugar-Free sweets have seen a massive increase in popularity over recent years. Subsequently choice and flavours have become much better and more varied – brilliant we think! We are delighted to be able to offer a really popular range of 26 sugar-free sweet options, from wrapped traditional boiled sweets to jellies, we have…
Jelly Sweets and Gummy Sweets
Love jelly sweets and Gummy sweets? At our sweet shop, we do too! We love a good Jelly and Gummy sweet at DaffyDownDilly Confectioners! Whether you’re a fan of a hard chewy and gummy jelly sweet or a more soft and delicate jelly sweet. We’re confident that our quality selection of jelly sweets provides a…
Corporate Gifts
Is your company looking for the very best in corporate gifts, incentives and rewards? Sweets as bespoke corporate gifts are a highly effective marketing tool for your business as well as being a fabulous incentive or reward for your top performing staff, or indeed as a thank you for the efforts of other businesses that…
Fruit Jellies
So delicious Fruit Jellies are available to buy from our online sweet shop right now. Jelly Sweets Oh my goodness we love Fruit Jellies. What a fabulous soft jelly sweet that appeals to customers of all ages. They’re a traditional fruit flavoured jelly in various colours and shapes to suit the flavours. So we’re really…
Quality pick and mix box – product feature
Welcome to our most popular gift and treat product feature – it’s our fantastic quality pick and mix box. Using our extensive customer and product knowledge we have designed a fabulous 1 Kilo assorted quality sweets pick and mix box. Which is available to buy online from our award winning Devon sweet shop as well…
Corporate Sweets
Corporate sweets, rewards, incentives and sweet gifts. Exciting times at Daffydowndilly. Corporate sweets, rewards and sweet gifts. We’re delighted to announce that we will shortly be launching a Corporate sweets gift section to our website. Making our sweet hampers and candy gift boxes available to buy online for even more customers and businesses. We are…
Trick or Treat Sweets
Halloween is an exciting time in our sweet shop – find out why here! It’s Trick or Treat sweets time! Well now all the children are safely back at school and the hectic summer season is over for another year we can feel the onset of Autumn as the days are starting to get shorter…
Sugar Free Cough Candy Sweets
Delicious Sugar Free Cough Candy Sweets are now available to buy online from our award winning UK sweet shop. With an aniseed flavour, cough candy is a traditional favourite to ease a tickly throat. Individually wrapped and true in flavour, these really are a popular and delicious option. Suitable for diabetics and the weight conscious,…
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about DaffyDownDilly Where is your sweet shop based? DaffyDownDilly, our sweet shop is based in the beautiful seaside town of Sidmouth in Devon. We count our blessings all the time that we are lucky enough to live and work in this stunning part of the county. All our online sweet orders…
Father’s Day 2017
So what’s Father’s Day like in our sweet shop? If you’re looking for some amazing ideas for sweet gifts for your Dad we hope this will help. From traditional and retro sweets to Liquorice, bonbons and the most delicious fizzy sweets and jelly sweets, we’ve got it all… Not long now until Sunday 18th and…
Buy sweets online – A day in the life of Daffy sweet shop
What’s it like in our sweet shop? So now we are in our third trading year. I thought it might be interesting to talk about what life is like on the other side of the counter. Our super busy sweet shop is going from strength to strength. Our website www.daffydowndilly.co.uk offers customers throughout the UK…
Buy Sweet Hampers Online
Retro Sweet Hampers and American candy hampers Did you know that you can buy sweet hampers online from DaffyDownDilly? Sweet Hampers are a popular option for anyone looking to buy sweets online and we wanted to tell you all about ours! Quality fizzy sweets, jelly sweets, traditional and retro sweets and chocolate in a fabulous…
Retro Sweets and Retro Sweet Jars
Welcome to our blog all about the very best in Retro sweets and Retro sweet gifts! Retro Sweets and Traditional sweets are undergoing a huge revival in the confectionery world both with customers in our Devon based sweet shop and with our customers throughout the UK wishing to use our website to buy sweets online…
Jameson’s Raspberry Ruffles
Jameson’s Raspberry Ruffles are available from our Award Winning Devon sweet shop to our customers across the country wishing to buy sweets online. A delicious traditional chocolate flavoured with coconut, fantastic raspberry fondant and dark chocolate wrapped in an attractive raspberry coloured wrapper. Fantastic on their own or teamed with the equally scrummy Jameson’s Chocolate…
Fizzy Sweet Jar Gift
A fab traditional sweet jar filled to bursting with the very best in fizzy and sour sweets – buying sweets online has never been easier! If you’re looking for a fantastic selection of delicious fizzy and sour sweets beautifully presented in a quality plastic traditional style sweet jar then this is just the thing for…
Gummy and Jelly Sweet Jar
A super traditional styled sweet jar filled to bursting with the very best in jelly and gummy sweets – if you like to buy sweets online, read on! We’re often asked for a jelly and gummy sweet gift that is suitable for everyone, and here is one of our solutions! A beautiful quality plastic sweet…
Chocolate Rumballs
Fabulous rum flavoured chocolate truffles with little chocolate sprinkles – available for you right now when you buy sweets online. We love Rumballs at Daffy-down-dilly, a traditional sweet treat at Christmas for sure, but loved throughout the year. Bite sized balls of chocolate flavoured strongly with rum, they’re a rich and decadent treat and perfect…
Fish and Chips Chocolate
Fabulous fish and chips white chocolate is available throughout the UK from our award winning Devon sweet shop for anyone wishing to buy sweets online. Fish and Chips are a traditional seaside chocolate treat – shaped into either fish or chip shapes they’re really delicious and good fun too. If you’re after a sweet to…
Milk Teeth Sweets
For anyone interested in the possibility of buying sweets online, you really should have a look at our award winning sweet shop – we have a fabulous selection of retro sweets including the famous and delicious Milk Teeth Sweets. With their powdery coating and distinctive teeth shape, Milk Teeth are a famous and delicious retro…
Bonbon Gift Box 1 kilo
If you like to buy sweets online and bonbons are your favourite sweets (I know they are mine…) or you know someone who is a bonbon fanatic then this 1 kilo assorted bonbon sweet box is a must! We have selected the very best in bonbon sweets to put into this box – Watermelon and…
Liquorice product Feature
Quality Liquorice gift box assortment available directly from our online sweet shop! Liquorice We would like to introduce our latest kilo sweet box and this time it contains nothing but Liquorice! Beautifully presented in a colourful and attractive presentation box, our sweet kilo boxes really make ideal gifts for any sweet lover. We have an…
Fizzy Sweets Gift Box
If you buy sweets online, and enjoy fizzy and sour sweets or know someone who does, then our 1 kilo selection box of quality assorted fizzy sweets is just the thing for you and available from our Award Winning sweet shop right now. We have chosen an awesome choice of fizzy sweets to fill our…
Retro Sweet Hampers
Quality Retro sweet hamper options from our sweet shop Retro sweet hampers are an ideal sweet gift for a special someone as they contain such an amazing mix of traditional sweets, retro sweets, fizzy sweets and jelly and gummy sweets as well as the very best in packets of sweets. If you’re looking for a…
Why you should buy sweets online
I’d like to take this opportunity to talk about the many advantages of being able to buy sweets online. As well as in our Sidmouth based award winning sweet shop. It’s a modern world out there, we hear this a lot. Times are changing and our perceptions and expectations of shopping and related experiences are…
Chewing Nuts Sweets
Traditional sweets, Chewing Nuts are available to buy online right now from our award winning online UK sweet shop. Delicious chocolate coats a hard toffee centre, we love Chewing Nuts – be warned though, they’re moreish!!
Our sweetshop virtual tour
Unlike many online providers of sweets, we are a physical sweetshop as well as a virtual one… Many of our customers see our sweetshop regularly of course and we love to see you all. But for our more remote, or online sweet shop customers we thought you’d like to have a look around. Come on…
Our Online sweet Shop from Sidmouth
We’d love to tell you about our sweet shop and Sidmouth, the beautiful town we live in! Where is your Sweet Shop and online sweet shop based? Daffy-down-dilly, our sweet shop is based in the beautiful seaside town of Sidmouth in Devon. We count our blessings all the time that we are lucky enough to…
Sugar-free (diabetic)Sweets
Our fantastic selection of sugar-free sweets is available for you to enjoy here. We are proud to offer a choice of quality sweets suitable for anyone diabetic from our Sweet Shop. Across Europe, Sugar-Free sweets have seen a massive increase in popularity over recent years. Subsequently, choice and flavours have become much better and more…
Sweet Shop news
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…
Liquorice Swirls
Liquorice Swirls are available to buy online from our UK award winning sweet shop. These lovely sweets with contrasting black and white colouring are as attractive to look at as they are yummy to eat! Individually wrapped liquorice treats that are sure to please – Liquorice swirls are a super popular choice in our Sidmouth…
Liquorice Catherine Wheels
Liquorice Catherine Wheels are available to buy online from our award winning UK sweet shop. Yum! We can never decide whether we like the aniseed jelly centre (like the ones you never get enough of in Liquorice Allsorts!) or the liquorice best… at just 25p each, all you need to decide is how many you would…
Jameson’s Chocolate Caramels
The perfect chocolate treat, Jameson’s Chocolate Caramels are available to buy online from our UK award winning sweet shop. Individually wrapped in appealing gold papers, Jameson’s chocolate caramels are a traditional and in our opinion unrivalled treat. Quality chocolate surrounds a tasty caramel centre that isn’t too hard or too soft – just right! A…
Sweet gift party bags
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…
Why I love sweets!!
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…
