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…
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Confectionery Trends
Welcome to our update on what’s new and upcoming with our focus on Confectionery Trends 2023. Soft and juicy fruit jelly sweets 2023 has definitely been the year of the vegan sweet not least the fruit Jellies featured above. We have so many new fizzy and jelly sweets to talk about here and they’re all…
Sweet Party Bags | Sweet Treats Inspiration
Welcome to DaffyDownDilly, home of quality Sweet Party Bags. As parents ourselves we wanted to create a range of party bags that stand out from the rest and we really think we have done that with our Sweet Treats Inspiration. All of our bags are prepared to order so you are guaranteed the freshest and…
Pick and Mix Sweets Delights
What are Pick and Mix Sweets? Well, remember the fantastic collection of sweets in clear tubs at Woolworths? Admittedly you do need to be a certain age but I remember many happy hours spent admiring the colours and smells emanating from those tubs before choosing a few favourites which were then paid for by weight…
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…
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…
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,…
Vegan sweets
We’re delighted to say we have found, tested and loved an amazing selection of jelly sweets and fizzy sweets all suitable for both vegans and vegetarians. I know, good isn’t it! And they’re so delicious that these pick and mix sweets are not just for vegans and vegetarians either… well worth a try! From space…
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…
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…
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…
Fizzy Sweets and Sour Sweets Online
Fizzy and Sour sweets Our Huge range of fizzy and sour sweets is truly awesome. And available to anyone wishing to buy sweets online from our Award Winning UK sweet shop. Whether you like a gentle tang or a super sonic sour hit, we’re sure to have just the right fizzy sweet for you! Fizzylicious…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Beans or tomatoes?
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…
WHY BUY A SWEET SHOP FRANCHISE?
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…
Buy Sweet hampers online
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
