5 best new candy shops

From a store filled with classic hard-to-find sweets to a shop specializing in handmade confections, F&W names the country’s best new candy shops.

Sugarfina Online
Candies from around the world—chile-ginger gummies from Germany, soft strawberry licorice from Finland—are the specialty at this new online shop. The site recently launched a Tasting Bar section that focuses on flights of candy, like a tasting of eight cocktail-inspired sweets or 20 different gummies.

(Photo: Omotomi Omololu-Lange) Sugar Shop, Brooklyn, NY

Apothecary jars and retro candy cases in this Cobble Hill store are filled with all kinds of sweets—classics like Pop Rocks and Bit-O-Honey, small-batch chocolates from Mast Brothers and Fine & Raw and loads of colorful suckers.

(Photo: Amy's Candy Bar)Amy’s Candy Bar, Chicago, IL

Owner Amy Hansen, a graduate of Chicago’s French Pastry School, sells more than 200 different candies, along with her own handmade confections—like soft caramels and pistachio-almond nougat—at this Lincoln Square shop.

(Photo: Aspen Candy Company)Aspen Candy Company, Aspen, CO
This rainbow-colored shop opened by three friends near Wagner Park offers an enormous range of sweets by the pound: gummies, sours, jawbreakers, chocolates, fudge, nuts, malt balls and more.

(Photo: Best of Luck Candy) Best of Luck Candy, Baltimore, MD

Baltimore native Lucky Thompson moved back home to open a shop stocked with nostalgic candies like Whirly Pops and vanilla Charleston Chews, plus locally made favorites like Jeppi candy-and-nut mixes.