Snack Bar, Vol. 17: Candy Gets a Glow-Up

Harken Sweets gave the familiar candy bars of childhood an adult upgrade. These treats look and taste like a typical candy bar, but they’re high in fiber and contain just 7 grams of sugar each. The fiber comes from some unique ingredients, including tapioca and sunchokes, but you won’t taste the difference. These bars are sweet, salty, crunchy and easily satisfy your sweet tooth.

This Vermont farm makes soft, chewy caramels using goat milk from its herd. This box is full of the brand’s award-winning flavors, including chai, cocoa latte, and cider honey. The candies are delightfully tangy, thanks to their first ingredient: fresh raw goat milk. They’re not too sweet and have the perfect soft and chewy texture—no need to worry about losing a tooth with these caramels.

It just feels right for Shaq to have a line of giant gummies modeled after his face. He partnered with Hershey’s to make some of the biggest gummy candies I’ve seen, just in time for Halloween. The smiling faces make these hard to eat at first, but only for a moment.

Unreal makes sophisticated-tasting candies that kids and adults both love using less sugar and more organic ingredients than your typical commercial manufacturer. These peanut butter cups have an organic peanut butter filling and are coated in a thick layer of shiny dark chocolate. They’re individually-wrapped for easy hand-outs, unless you’d rather keep the box for yourself, of course.

These pared-back chocolate bars are all about clean ingredients without sacrificing flavor. The Salty Dark Chocolate flavor from Hu is made with four ingredients: cacao, coconut sugar, cocoa butter, and sea salt. This year, Hu is debuting their fan-favorite bars in miniature—perfect for trick-or-treaters (or an afternoon pick-me-up).

Dates are naturally sweet—they’re often called nature’s candy, and Date Better has enhanced the fruits’ caramel sweetness by filling them with deliciously rich nut butter. The brand’s hazelnut praline flavor features juicy Mejdools filled with organic chocolate, hazelnuts, and cacao nibs for extra crunch, topped off with a sprinkle of sea salt.

It’s fall, afterall, so you didn’t think you could escape all things pumpkin spice, did you? Then again, why would you want to? Chocolove has harnessed everything you love about your PSL in a one-bite sweet treat wrapped in creamy milk chocolate.

These gooey caramel-filled bites are perfect for sweet-and-salty lovers. Each piece is dotted with big flakes of sea salt, coated in a thick and crunchy layer of dark chocolate, and filled with soft and buttery maple-flavored caramel.

This is a one-of-a-kind Halloween specialty from Swiss chocolatier Andre’s. Shaped like chunky, witchy fingers, these chocolate bars are filled with a crunchy, sweet and slightly bitter mixture of soft caramel, candied orange peel, and roasted nuts. They’re as fun to share and eat as they are tasty.

If you’re more of a gummy lover than a chocoholic, Smart Sweets makes chewy sour bites with a fraction of the sugar. These tropical sours are sweetened with stevia, not sugar alcohols or cane sugar, and even contain 6 grams of fiber per serving.

If you love the airy fluff of marshmallows, you have to try them in freeze-dried form from Sow Good. These ’mallows are crispy and shatteringly crunchy—and unexpected flavor and textural combo that’ll make you scream.

These are not your average hard candies. The sweet citrus-spiked exterior gives way to an unexpected center flavored with chili, lime and sea salt. These handmade Mexican sweets are a surefire way to shake up your Halloween haul.

Big Picture Farm Caramels take the cake (er, caramel) for cuteness. Who can resist a box of candies featuring goats dressed like zebras and dinosaurs? And what’s inside is even better. These soft and buttery caramels have the sophisticated twang of goat milk with just the right amount of sweetness to delight trick-or-treaters of all ages.