The American Candy Christmas Guide: Films, Adverts and the Sweets That Made the Season
The American Candy Christmas Guide: Films, Adverts and the Sweets That Made the Season
Something odd happens every November in Britain. The first Coca-Cola truck advert hits the television, the jingle starts, and the whole country collectively decides Christmas has officially begun. It's been happening since 1995. The red trucks, the snow-lit town, the chorus of 'holidays are coming' — all so embedded in British Christmas culture that it's easy to forget it's an American brand selling an American drink.
The same quiet Americanisation runs through most of our cultural Christmas. The films people watch on Christmas Eve — Home Alone, Elf, The Polar Express — are all American, and the candy on screen is mostly American. The adverts people associate with the season — the Coca-Cola polar bears, the Coca-Cola truck, the Hershey's Kisses bells — are American too. British Christmas still revolves around Quality Street tins and Cadbury selection boxes, but the emotional backdrop, the stuff that makes Christmas feel like Christmas, has been quietly American for at least three decades.
For sweet shops looking to capture Christmas spending from customers who grew up with these films and adverts, the opportunity is real. Stock the American candy that ties to the nostalgia. Lean into the references. Give customers a reason to browse your Christmas display that goes beyond 'we've got chocolate.' This guide walks through the specific films, adverts and stock connections — plus the broader Christmas categories every UK sweet shop should cover.
Elf has made the full transition from Will Ferrell comedy to Christmas classic. The breakfast spaghetti scene is the film's most quoted moment — Buddy cooks for his new human family and serves spaghetti topped with maple syrup, marshmallows, chocolate candies, chocolate sauce and sprinkles. His explanation: 'We elves try to stick to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns, and syrup.' The scene is so iconic that Chicago restaurants have put spaghetti sundaes on their menus for Elf anniversaries.
The stock connection is direct. Marshmallow Fluff — the spreadable American marshmallow launched in Massachusetts in 1917 — captures exactly the excessive American energy of Buddy's breakfast. Hershey's Chocolate Syrup is the iconic squeeze bottle that pours chocolate onto everything, and Reese's Pieces are the colourful peanut butter candy that gives the spaghetti scene its scatter of chocolate-coated treats. A small card quoting Buddy's 'four main food groups' above the American candy display is the kind of detail that stops customers mid-browse, makes them smile, and starts them shopping.
Home Alone is the most-watched American Christmas film in the UK, full stop. What viewers remember beyond the booby traps is the food — Kevin McCallister's unsupervised eating is central to both films, and specific American candy appears on screen in ways that have become part of shared cultural memory.
In the first film, Kevin discovers his brother Buzz's secret stash in a trunk. The camera lingers on three specific American candies: Junior Mints, Hostess Twinkies, and Sugar Babies. Junior Mints have been an American cinema concession since the 1950s — dark chocolate-coated mint candies known to UK audiences primarily through this Home Alone scene and Seinfeld. Hostess Twinkies are the golden sponge cakes with cream filling that Americans have been eating since 1930. Stocking them and pointing customers to the Home Alone connection produces immediate recognition and immediate sales.
Junior Mints have their own Christmas advertising heritage worth knowing about. The brand's seasonal campaign features the classic retro television set and snow globe aesthetic that has become synonymous with American nostalgic Christmas. For UK customers who've seen the Home Alone scene, the Junior Mints Christmas branding reinforces exactly the same cultural memory — making them one of the strongest American cinema-Christmas crossover products to display together with Hershey's Kisses and Hostess Twinkies in a Christmas feature.
In Home Alone 2, Kevin checks into the Plaza Hotel and orders an enormous ice cream sundae via room service. The Plaza still sells a 'Home Alone Sundae' in reference to the film, and TikTok is full of people recreating it at home. The on-screen sundae features scoops of ice cream, chocolate sauce, whipped cream, cherries and various American candy toppings — which maps directly to the Hershey's syrup range, Reese's Pieces, Whoppers, and Milk Duds theatre boxes in the Sweet and Glory range. A 'Build Your Own Home Alone Sundae' display cluster — syrup plus Reese's Pieces plus a theatre box — is a Christmas merchandising concept that sells multiple products in one purchase and generates genuine conversation.
The Polar Express hot chocolate scene is one of the most visually iconic moments in any Christmas film. The conductor announces refreshments, a troupe of chefs and waiters burst into song and tap-dance, hot chocolate gets poured from great heights into waiting mugs. The original Chris Van Allsburg book describes the drink as 'hot cocoa as thick and rich as melted chocolate bars,' served with 'candies with nougat centers as white as snow.' The scene has become the defining visual of the film — recreated on TikTok, featured in hot chocolate recipe blogs every Christmas, and celebrated on its 20th anniversary in 2024.
For sweet shops, the connection is simple. Hershey's Chocolate Syrup is the core ingredient for proper Polar Express-style hot chocolate — warm milk, squeeze in syrup, whisk. It's the easiest upgrade from powdered packets your customers will make. Marshmallow Fluff spooned on top creates a melting marshmallow layer that beats anything from a supermarket. Jelly Belly Toasted Marshmallow Jelly Beans capture the marshmallow-hot-chocolate flavour in a shelf-stable stocking filler format. Position these together as a 'hot chocolate upgrade' cluster and the merchandising does the selling.
On American television, one Christmas advert sits above all the rest — the Hershey's Kisses 'Christmas Bells.' It first aired in December 1989. The concept is impossibly simple: twelve Hershey's Kisses arranged in a Christmas tree shape, fashioned as handbells, playing 'We Wish You a Merry Christmas.' One Kiss at the end wipes its brow with relief. Fifteen seconds, no dialogue, no celebrities. Just animated chocolate.
It's Hershey's longest-running television commercial. It's aired every Christmas season for 36 years. In 2020 Hershey's tried to update the ad with a modern version and faced genuine consumer backlash — people wanted the original back. Hershey's Kisses is now officially the number one candy of the American holiday season, and a huge part of that cultural dominance comes from this single fifteen-second advert.
For UK sweet shops, the advert is less directly known than Home Alone or Elf, but the cultural weight it gives the product is enormous. Customers who have seen it on social media, TikTok throwbacks, or American TV feeds recognise Hershey's Kisses as the Christmas chocolate. The iconic teardrop foil shape has become shorthand for 'American Christmas.' The range covers peg bag formats for till-point impulse, larger bags for family sharing and gifting, Special Dark for customers who prefer a less sweet option, and the 1.95kg bag for retailers building their own gift selections.
The 'Holidays Are Coming' Coca-Cola advert first aired in 1995 and has aired in both the United States and the United Kingdom every Christmas since. It features an illuminated convoy of Coca-Cola trucks weaving through a snowy town, children gathering to watch them pass, and the jingle building to a chorus that Kantar research has identified as part of the cultural fabric of the British Christmas.
What's unique about the Coca-Cola advert is that it's the one American Christmas reference that UK audiences recognise as their own. When the truck advert airs, Christmas is officially beginning — that's a British convention as much as an American one. For sweet shops, that makes Coca-Cola flavour variants a smart Christmas stock. Coke Vanilla and Cherry Coke are almost impossible to find in UK supermarkets, which gives retailers a genuine point of difference. Customers already have the emotional association — they just need access to the American flavour variants that feel like a discovery.
Beyond the film and advert angles, Christmas sweet shop success depends on covering the core categories every UK customer expects. These are the stock lines to have ready from September onwards.
Stocking fillers drive basket size in the final two weeks before Christmas. Customers come in looking for 'something small to add to a stocking' and leave with several. Hershey's Kisses peg bags, Reese's single bars, Junior Mints and Whoppers theatre boxes, and Jelly Belly 70g flavour packs in Toasted Marshmallow, Hot Cinnamon, and Buttered Popcorn are all appropriate formats — small, branded, and in a price bracket that makes adding several to a basket feel easy.
Gift formats serve customers buying for a specific person. Hershey's Miniatures Party Bag (over 1kg of assorted miniature bars) is one of the best value Christmas gifting lines in the American range — substantial enough to feel like a proper gift, varied enough to suit most tastes. Reese's Thins, Peanut Butter Cups Snack Size, and Goetze's Cow Tales Mini all add variety to a gift section for customers who want something beyond the obvious.
Christmas baking is a huge UK tradition and American chocolate has a specific place in it. Hershey's is the standard American baking chocolate — customers making chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter blossoms, or s'mores bars from American recipes need the real thing. The syrup range (Chocolate, Caramel, Sundae Dream) covers both baking and hot drink applications, and Hershey's Kisses in the 1.95kg bag give baking customers the volume they need for peanut butter blossom cookies.
Savoury-sweet crossover has become one of the stronger Christmas entertaining formats. Hershey's Cookies and Cream Dipped Pretzels and Chocolate Dipped Pretzels, Reese's Dipped Pretzels and Popped Snack Mix — these work on Christmas cheese boards and entertaining spreads as sweet-side options. Customers hosting over Christmas pick them up for exactly that use case.
The biggest merchandising opportunity with American Christmas stock is building a coherent feature rather than scattering products throughout the general Christmas range. Customers should be able to walk past your shop window or display and instantly read 'American Christmas.'
Group by use case rather than brand. A 'make your own sundae' cluster (syrups, Reese's Pieces, theatre boxes), a 'hot chocolate upgrade' cluster (syrups, Marshmallow Fluff, marshmallow jelly beans), a 'stocking filler' cluster (peg bags, theatre boxes, small bars), and a 'family sharing' cluster (Miniatures, Giant Bars) — customers browse by what they're trying to achieve. Small printed cards with film and advert references ('Buddy's four main food groups,' 'what's in Buzz's trunk,' 'the Plaza sundae') turn a product display into a conversation piece.
Hershey's silver Kisses foils, Reese's orange packaging, red Coca-Cola cans, gold Hostess Twinkies wrappers — American Christmas branding is loud and colourful. A display that shows that off visually reads as distinctive from the muted British Christmas chocolate tradition of Cadbury purple and Quality Street green. For wider merchandising principles, see our American candy section setup guide and our confectionery planogram guide.
Christmas retail timing is tighter than it looks. Search demand for Christmas sweets starts building in September, customers begin stocking up in early November, and the peak two-week window before Christmas is when most sales happen.
The right timeline: place initial Christmas orders in June to August — American import lines have longer lead times than domestic stock and seasonal lines can sell through at the importer level. Start building the display in September alongside late-autumn product. Transition fully into Christmas mode in late October to early November, with the full feature prominent and stocking filler lines front and centre by the first week of November. Restock aggressively through mid-November to mid-December — Hershey's Kisses peg bags, Reese's single bars, and theatre boxes sell out fastest in the final ten days. Most American candy has long shelf life and can be carried into January as entertaining stock without clearance pricing.
For a full year-round stocking calendar with ordering timelines across all seasonal events, see our seasonal sweet shop calendar. Halloween, Bonfire Night, and Christmas form a continuous three-month retail push — see also the Halloween stocking guide and the New Year sweet shop guide for the full picture.
Sweet and Glory stocks the full range referenced throughout this guide — Hershey's Kisses, Miniatures, syrups and Nuggets; Reese's Pieces, Cups, Thins, Dipped Pretzels and Snack Mix; Junior Mints, Whoppers, Milk Duds, Hostess Twinkies, Marshmallow Fluff, Coke Vanilla, Cherry Coke, and Jelly Belly gift formats — plus thousands of other American and world candy lines.
Browse American sweets, American chocolate, American drinks, and American snacks for the full selection. Create a free account to browse and order across more than 2,000 active lines.
No minimum order. Free first parcel on orders over £150 ex VAT (additional boxes £7.10 each). Free pallet delivery over £650 ex VAT. Dispatched from Manchester.
What sweets are in Buzz's trunk in Home Alone? The camera lingers on three American candies in Buzz's secret stash: Junior Mints, Hostess Twinkies and Sugar Babies. It is one of the most recognised confectionery moments in any Christmas film.
What is the Hershey's Kisses Christmas advert? Hershey's longest-running television commercial, in which foil-wrapped Kisses are arranged as handbells playing a Christmas carol. It has aired every American Christmas season for decades.
What hot chocolate is used in The Polar Express scene? The film does not name a brand, but the thick American style it depicts is made with chocolate syrup rather than powder - warm milk, syrup, whisk - with a spoonful of Marshmallow Fluff on top.
When should a sweet shop order Christmas stock? Initial Christmas orders belong in the June to August window, because American import lines have long lead times. Topping up through the autumn works; starting in the autumn does not.
Where can I buy American Christmas candy wholesale? Sweet and Glory supplies American Christmas confectionery wholesale from Manchester with no minimum order. Create a free account to browse and order.
Related guides: Christmas stocking fillers · Two-phase Christmas stocking strategy · American candy advent calendars · Corporate Christmas sweet gifts · Christmas Eve box ideas and fillers · Bonfire Night sweet shop guide
Something odd happens every November in Britain. The first Coca-Cola truck advert hits the television, the jingle starts, and the whole country collectively decides Christmas has officially begun. It's been happening since 1995. The red trucks, the snow-lit town, the chorus of 'holidays are coming' — all so embedded in British Christmas culture that it's easy to forget it's an American brand selling an American drink.
The same quiet Americanisation runs through most of our cultural Christmas. The films people watch on Christmas Eve — Home Alone, Elf, The Polar Express — are all American, and the candy on screen is mostly American. The adverts people associate with the season — the Coca-Cola polar bears, the Coca-Cola truck, the Hershey's Kisses bells — are American too. British Christmas still revolves around Quality Street tins and Cadbury selection boxes, but the emotional backdrop, the stuff that makes Christmas feel like Christmas, has been quietly American for at least three decades.
For sweet shops looking to capture Christmas spending from customers who grew up with these films and adverts, the opportunity is real. Stock the American candy that ties to the nostalgia. Lean into the references. Give customers a reason to browse your Christmas display that goes beyond 'we've got chocolate.' This guide walks through the specific films, adverts and stock connections — plus the broader Christmas categories every UK sweet shop should cover.
Elf (2003): Buddy the Elf and the Four Main Food Groups
Elf has made the full transition from Will Ferrell comedy to Christmas classic. The breakfast spaghetti scene is the film's most quoted moment — Buddy cooks for his new human family and serves spaghetti topped with maple syrup, marshmallows, chocolate candies, chocolate sauce and sprinkles. His explanation: 'We elves try to stick to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns, and syrup.' The scene is so iconic that Chicago restaurants have put spaghetti sundaes on their menus for Elf anniversaries.
The stock connection is direct. Marshmallow Fluff — the spreadable American marshmallow launched in Massachusetts in 1917 — captures exactly the excessive American energy of Buddy's breakfast. Hershey's Chocolate Syrup is the iconic squeeze bottle that pours chocolate onto everything, and Reese's Pieces are the colourful peanut butter candy that gives the spaghetti scene its scatter of chocolate-coated treats. A small card quoting Buddy's 'four main food groups' above the American candy display is the kind of detail that stops customers mid-browse, makes them smile, and starts them shopping.
Home Alone (1990) and Home Alone 2 (1992): Kevin's Christmas Feast
Home Alone is the most-watched American Christmas film in the UK, full stop. What viewers remember beyond the booby traps is the food — Kevin McCallister's unsupervised eating is central to both films, and specific American candy appears on screen in ways that have become part of shared cultural memory.
Buzz's Trunk
In the first film, Kevin discovers his brother Buzz's secret stash in a trunk. The camera lingers on three specific American candies: Junior Mints, Hostess Twinkies, and Sugar Babies. Junior Mints have been an American cinema concession since the 1950s — dark chocolate-coated mint candies known to UK audiences primarily through this Home Alone scene and Seinfeld. Hostess Twinkies are the golden sponge cakes with cream filling that Americans have been eating since 1930. Stocking them and pointing customers to the Home Alone connection produces immediate recognition and immediate sales.
Junior Mints: The Christmas Advert Connection
Junior Mints have their own Christmas advertising heritage worth knowing about. The brand's seasonal campaign features the classic retro television set and snow globe aesthetic that has become synonymous with American nostalgic Christmas. For UK customers who've seen the Home Alone scene, the Junior Mints Christmas branding reinforces exactly the same cultural memory — making them one of the strongest American cinema-Christmas crossover products to display together with Hershey's Kisses and Hostess Twinkies in a Christmas feature.
In Home Alone 2, Kevin checks into the Plaza Hotel and orders an enormous ice cream sundae via room service. The Plaza still sells a 'Home Alone Sundae' in reference to the film, and TikTok is full of people recreating it at home. The on-screen sundae features scoops of ice cream, chocolate sauce, whipped cream, cherries and various American candy toppings — which maps directly to the Hershey's syrup range, Reese's Pieces, Whoppers, and Milk Duds theatre boxes in the Sweet and Glory range. A 'Build Your Own Home Alone Sundae' display cluster — syrup plus Reese's Pieces plus a theatre box — is a Christmas merchandising concept that sells multiple products in one purchase and generates genuine conversation.
The Polar Express (2004): The Hot Chocolate Scene
The Polar Express hot chocolate scene is one of the most visually iconic moments in any Christmas film. The conductor announces refreshments, a troupe of chefs and waiters burst into song and tap-dance, hot chocolate gets poured from great heights into waiting mugs. The original Chris Van Allsburg book describes the drink as 'hot cocoa as thick and rich as melted chocolate bars,' served with 'candies with nougat centers as white as snow.' The scene has become the defining visual of the film — recreated on TikTok, featured in hot chocolate recipe blogs every Christmas, and celebrated on its 20th anniversary in 2024.
For sweet shops, the connection is simple. Hershey's Chocolate Syrup is the core ingredient for proper Polar Express-style hot chocolate — warm milk, squeeze in syrup, whisk. It's the easiest upgrade from powdered packets your customers will make. Marshmallow Fluff spooned on top creates a melting marshmallow layer that beats anything from a supermarket. Jelly Belly Toasted Marshmallow Jelly Beans capture the marshmallow-hot-chocolate flavour in a shelf-stable stocking filler format. Position these together as a 'hot chocolate upgrade' cluster and the merchandising does the selling.
The Hershey's Kisses Bells Advert: America's Most Iconic Christmas Ad
On American television, one Christmas advert sits above all the rest — the Hershey's Kisses 'Christmas Bells.' It first aired in December 1989. The concept is impossibly simple: twelve Hershey's Kisses arranged in a Christmas tree shape, fashioned as handbells, playing 'We Wish You a Merry Christmas.' One Kiss at the end wipes its brow with relief. Fifteen seconds, no dialogue, no celebrities. Just animated chocolate.
It's Hershey's longest-running television commercial. It's aired every Christmas season for 36 years. In 2020 Hershey's tried to update the ad with a modern version and faced genuine consumer backlash — people wanted the original back. Hershey's Kisses is now officially the number one candy of the American holiday season, and a huge part of that cultural dominance comes from this single fifteen-second advert.
For UK sweet shops, the advert is less directly known than Home Alone or Elf, but the cultural weight it gives the product is enormous. Customers who have seen it on social media, TikTok throwbacks, or American TV feeds recognise Hershey's Kisses as the Christmas chocolate. The iconic teardrop foil shape has become shorthand for 'American Christmas.' The range covers peg bag formats for till-point impulse, larger bags for family sharing and gifting, Special Dark for customers who prefer a less sweet option, and the 1.95kg bag for retailers building their own gift selections.
The Coca-Cola Christmas Advert: The Crossover Icon
The 'Holidays Are Coming' Coca-Cola advert first aired in 1995 and has aired in both the United States and the United Kingdom every Christmas since. It features an illuminated convoy of Coca-Cola trucks weaving through a snowy town, children gathering to watch them pass, and the jingle building to a chorus that Kantar research has identified as part of the cultural fabric of the British Christmas.
What's unique about the Coca-Cola advert is that it's the one American Christmas reference that UK audiences recognise as their own. When the truck advert airs, Christmas is officially beginning — that's a British convention as much as an American one. For sweet shops, that makes Coca-Cola flavour variants a smart Christmas stock. Coke Vanilla and Cherry Coke are almost impossible to find in UK supermarkets, which gives retailers a genuine point of difference. Customers already have the emotional association — they just need access to the American flavour variants that feel like a discovery.
The Core Christmas Stocking Categories
Beyond the film and advert angles, Christmas sweet shop success depends on covering the core categories every UK customer expects. These are the stock lines to have ready from September onwards.
Stocking fillers drive basket size in the final two weeks before Christmas. Customers come in looking for 'something small to add to a stocking' and leave with several. Hershey's Kisses peg bags, Reese's single bars, Junior Mints and Whoppers theatre boxes, and Jelly Belly 70g flavour packs in Toasted Marshmallow, Hot Cinnamon, and Buttered Popcorn are all appropriate formats — small, branded, and in a price bracket that makes adding several to a basket feel easy.
Gift formats serve customers buying for a specific person. Hershey's Miniatures Party Bag (over 1kg of assorted miniature bars) is one of the best value Christmas gifting lines in the American range — substantial enough to feel like a proper gift, varied enough to suit most tastes. Reese's Thins, Peanut Butter Cups Snack Size, and Goetze's Cow Tales Mini all add variety to a gift section for customers who want something beyond the obvious.
Christmas baking is a huge UK tradition and American chocolate has a specific place in it. Hershey's is the standard American baking chocolate — customers making chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter blossoms, or s'mores bars from American recipes need the real thing. The syrup range (Chocolate, Caramel, Sundae Dream) covers both baking and hot drink applications, and Hershey's Kisses in the 1.95kg bag give baking customers the volume they need for peanut butter blossom cookies.
Savoury-sweet crossover has become one of the stronger Christmas entertaining formats. Hershey's Cookies and Cream Dipped Pretzels and Chocolate Dipped Pretzels, Reese's Dipped Pretzels and Popped Snack Mix — these work on Christmas cheese boards and entertaining spreads as sweet-side options. Customers hosting over Christmas pick them up for exactly that use case.
Display and Merchandising: Building the American Christmas Feature
The biggest merchandising opportunity with American Christmas stock is building a coherent feature rather than scattering products throughout the general Christmas range. Customers should be able to walk past your shop window or display and instantly read 'American Christmas.'
Group by use case rather than brand. A 'make your own sundae' cluster (syrups, Reese's Pieces, theatre boxes), a 'hot chocolate upgrade' cluster (syrups, Marshmallow Fluff, marshmallow jelly beans), a 'stocking filler' cluster (peg bags, theatre boxes, small bars), and a 'family sharing' cluster (Miniatures, Giant Bars) — customers browse by what they're trying to achieve. Small printed cards with film and advert references ('Buddy's four main food groups,' 'what's in Buzz's trunk,' 'the Plaza sundae') turn a product display into a conversation piece.
Hershey's silver Kisses foils, Reese's orange packaging, red Coca-Cola cans, gold Hostess Twinkies wrappers — American Christmas branding is loud and colourful. A display that shows that off visually reads as distinctive from the muted British Christmas chocolate tradition of Cadbury purple and Quality Street green. For wider merchandising principles, see our American candy section setup guide and our confectionery planogram guide.
When to Order for Christmas
Christmas retail timing is tighter than it looks. Search demand for Christmas sweets starts building in September, customers begin stocking up in early November, and the peak two-week window before Christmas is when most sales happen.
The right timeline: place initial Christmas orders in June to August — American import lines have longer lead times than domestic stock and seasonal lines can sell through at the importer level. Start building the display in September alongside late-autumn product. Transition fully into Christmas mode in late October to early November, with the full feature prominent and stocking filler lines front and centre by the first week of November. Restock aggressively through mid-November to mid-December — Hershey's Kisses peg bags, Reese's single bars, and theatre boxes sell out fastest in the final ten days. Most American candy has long shelf life and can be carried into January as entertaining stock without clearance pricing.
For a full year-round stocking calendar with ordering timelines across all seasonal events, see our seasonal sweet shop calendar. Halloween, Bonfire Night, and Christmas form a continuous three-month retail push — see also the Halloween stocking guide and the New Year sweet shop guide for the full picture.
Stock American Christmas Candy Wholesale
Sweet and Glory stocks the full range referenced throughout this guide — Hershey's Kisses, Miniatures, syrups and Nuggets; Reese's Pieces, Cups, Thins, Dipped Pretzels and Snack Mix; Junior Mints, Whoppers, Milk Duds, Hostess Twinkies, Marshmallow Fluff, Coke Vanilla, Cherry Coke, and Jelly Belly gift formats — plus thousands of other American and world candy lines.
Browse American sweets, American chocolate, American drinks, and American snacks for the full selection. Create a free account to browse and order across more than 2,000 active lines.
No minimum order. Free first parcel on orders over £150 ex VAT (additional boxes £7.10 each). Free pallet delivery over £650 ex VAT. Dispatched from Manchester.
Frequently Asked Questions
What sweets are in Buzz's trunk in Home Alone? The camera lingers on three American candies in Buzz's secret stash: Junior Mints, Hostess Twinkies and Sugar Babies. It is one of the most recognised confectionery moments in any Christmas film.
What is the Hershey's Kisses Christmas advert? Hershey's longest-running television commercial, in which foil-wrapped Kisses are arranged as handbells playing a Christmas carol. It has aired every American Christmas season for decades.
What hot chocolate is used in The Polar Express scene? The film does not name a brand, but the thick American style it depicts is made with chocolate syrup rather than powder - warm milk, syrup, whisk - with a spoonful of Marshmallow Fluff on top.
When should a sweet shop order Christmas stock? Initial Christmas orders belong in the June to August window, because American import lines have long lead times. Topping up through the autumn works; starting in the autumn does not.
Where can I buy American Christmas candy wholesale? Sweet and Glory supplies American Christmas confectionery wholesale from Manchester with no minimum order. Create a free account to browse and order.
Related guides: Christmas stocking fillers · Two-phase Christmas stocking strategy · American candy advent calendars · Corporate Christmas sweet gifts · Christmas Eve box ideas and fillers · Bonfire Night sweet shop guide
