Secret Santa sweets Looking for ideas for the perfect Secret Santa sweets gift and need to stick to that budget? DaffyDownDilly has really got the perfect thing for you! Our Secret Santa sweets are the ideal choice; affordable and fun. Full of exciting, colourful and delicious treats for all budgets and to suit every wallet…
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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…
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…
Pick and Mix Box of Sweets
A pick and Mix box of Sweets… Doesn’t matter how old or young you are, a quality pick and mix is bound to make you smile, just the thought of those delicious flavour and texture combinations is enough to make you mouth water isn’t it? We have hundreds of pick and mix sweets at DaffyDownDilly,…
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…
Sugar Free sweets and gifts
DaffyDownDilly specialises in Sugar Free sweets and gifts. As we all start to get back to our pre Covid lives our focus is changing and this is apparent at DaffyDownDIlly with a surge in interest in sugar free sweets and gift ideas. Always popular as an accessible treat for diabetics, sugar free sweets are becoming…
Blue Sweet gift boxes
Blue sweets gift boxes… All new and exclusive for 2021… our new kilo boxes of sweets containing yes, you guessed it – just blue sweets. Whether you’re looking for a fabulous Birthday gift, a tongue painting dream of a Christmas present or a box of sweets suitable for gifting throughout the year, you’ve definitely come…
Milk and Dark chocolate Brazil nuts
1 kilo of assorted milk and dark chocolate Brazils in a gift box Milk and Dark Chocolate Brazil nuts are one of our bestselling gift boxes and it’s easy to see why! Delicious quality Brazil nuts are covered in a thick layer of milk or plain chocolate bringing that famous sweetness to the Brazils. At…
Personalised sweet boxes
Personalised sweet boxes are us!! You will have already have seen no doubt our fantastic sweet gift boxes and we’re proud and delighted to say that all of these are now available online with a personalisation option too! So if you want to buy personalised sweet boxes for your loved ones, look no further! Not…
Say Happy Birthday with a gift box of Pick and Mix Sweets!
Sweet gift box suitable for birthday present for all ages! Do you want to wish someone special a very happy Birthday? Well, a gift box of our very finest pick and mix sweets is just the way to do it! Straight from DaffyDownDilly HQ, our gift box of sweets is packed freshly to order and…
So who are team DaffyDownDilly Confectioners Sidmouth?
Want to meet the DaffyDownDilly Confectioners Sidmouth team? Intrigued as to who packs and prepares your sweet orders? Want to put some faces to the names? We’re delighted to say hi 🙂 Louise, Keeran and Natalie in the middle of the Christmas mayhem! So we are a small but perfectly formed team with a love…
Sweet Shop DaffyDownDilly in 2020
Happy New Year from us all at DaffyDownDIlly Confectioners, our Sidmouth sweet Shop. So as we enter not just a new year but a new decade, here are some thoughts on where we’ve been and we’re going over the next few years… So since opening our sunny seaside sweet shop in 2014 we have learnt…
Chocolate Brazils Box with Milk and Dark chocolate.
1 kilo of milk chocolate brazils in a gift box We are well known at DaffyDownDilly for Chocolate Brazils Box with Milk and Dark chocolate and our Chocolate Brazils Gift Box…We’re excited to announce that our delicious milk chocolate Brazils and dark chocolate Brazils in a kilo gift box are now available right here, at…
Vegetarian sweets box – 1 kilo gelatine free treats!
Our vegetarian sweets box. It’s new. It’s ace. And it’s vegetarian. Our new Vegetarian sweets box has hit the shelves and we couldn’t be happier! Vegetarian sweet box 1 With a delicious mix of vegetarian fizzy sweet, vegetarian jelly sweets and vegetarian chocolate this sweet gift box is the bomb. Often we hear the people…
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…
Haribo Sweets
Amongst our most popular sweets are those manufactured by Haribo Sweets. Haribo’s fizzy and jelly sweets are timeless and enjoyed by children of all ages! We have a really super range of Haribo sweets available at our online sweet shop – check these out! Haribo Giant Strawberries – delicious fruit jelly sweets! Giant Strawberries are…
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…
Liquorice Box for Father’s Day!
Father’s Day 2018 and our Liquorice Box. Like Mother’s Day, the date for Father’s Day in the UK changes annually but always falls on a Sunday. Father’s Day always falls on the third Sunday in June, and is celebrated in various ways. So whether with cards, gifts and exciting days out or in our experience…
Corporate sweet gifts page now live!
We are over the moon to announce that our Corporate Sweet gifts page is now live! You can find it right here. DaffyDownDilly have been working with the Corporate sector for some time now and we wanted to formalise our offer. We have already worked with numerous local, National and International companies to brand and…
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…
Sweet news for DaffyDownDilly Confectioners
The nation is set to get that little bit sweeter as Devon based confectionery shop DaffyDownDilly throws open the doors of its new online emporium. Located in the seaside town of Sidmouth, Devon. The award winning family owned business has grown in leaps and bounds since opening in 2014. Now, the owners are ecstatic to launch a…
DaffyDownDilly Sweet Shop
A business enjoying the sweet taste of success. For one Sidmouth business, creating the sensation of a child in a sweet shop is a real labour of love. And as Clarissa Place found out, the shop’s tasty treats are now going global. Since coming to town in 2013, DaffyDownDilly has made its mark with bespoke…
Easter Sweets and Treats at DaffyDownDilly
Easter Sweets and treats. The sun is shining, the trees are full of budding leaves and the promise of a beautiful seaside summer, there’s even a bird nesting in my parent’s bird box… it can only mean one thing – Easter is nearly here! Our sweet shop is busy, buzzing and happy and that’s just…
Buy Sweets Online for Mother’s Day!
Mother’s Day Sweet choices. Not long now until Mother’s Day 2017 and the perfect opportunity to show your Mum how important she is in your life by buying sweets online to make an awesome gift! If your Mum has a sweet tooth (and most of us do!) then a special sweet gift can be just…
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…
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…
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…
Our Third and Sweetest Christmas Yet!
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…
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…
American Candy Selection box
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,…
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…
When is Christmas acceptable in store?
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 –…
Mega Sour Sweets and Vomit Beans!
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…
Father’s Day presents
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…
Gummy and Jelly Sweets
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…
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…
What is the most popular sweet in the UK?
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…
Beautiful Bonbons
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…
Mother’s Day – Say it with Sweets!!
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…
Father’s Day sweets are here!
Now, please don’t panic… but Father’s Day is nearly upon us. We’re always looking for that perfect, special and original gift to let our Dad’s know how great they are and how much we appreciate them, right? Father’s Day sweets! Well, we have news… Lots of Dads like sweets 🙂 and we have lots and…
New additions to our sugar free sweets selection!
In response to the huge and growing demand for Sugar Free sweets, we have just expanded our range to include 25 varieties of boiled, jelly and chewy Sugar Free sweets. Why not try a sugar free sweets selection to find your favourite? Gift box filled with sugar free sweets
Valentines Day sweets now in stock!
From fantastic boxes of jelly hearts, to Sweethearts, to beautiful hand prepared boxes of delicious chocolates and Valentines candy cakes, we have plenty to choose from to make Valentines Day 2015 extra special! Just pop in and ask if you have a favourite you would us to present for you. So Valentines Day Sweets are…
Award Winning Sweet Shop!
Award Winning DaffyDownDilly We are proud and delighted to announce that on the 10th January 2015 we won the New Enterprise of 2015 Award as part of the Sid Valley Business Awards. Well, are we chuffed? Especially in our first year of business… We would love to take the opportunity to thank our amazing supportive…
