Bulk Gold Candy Wholesale

That warm amber-to-bronze color usually means caramel or toffee underneath (sometimes butterscotch or praline) and it turns up in more places than you’d guess, from a pick-and-mix jar on a deli counter to a cellophane gift basket on its way out of a specialty food shop. Our bulk gold candy wholesale section at CandiesWholesaler runs to 38 SKUs from six countries. Sweden leads. Italy and Holland send some. The USA does too, and Belgium and Ukraine are in there as well.

Kolafabrikens is where the Swedish side begins. They’ve been making Scandinavian caramels for decades and it shows in how many flavors they bother with, starting from a plain Lemon Caramel. Wild Strawberry Caramel and Raspberry Caramel sit next to it. Then comes a Chocolate Caramel along with a Mint Chocolate Caramel. After those it’s Strawberry Caramel and Banana Caramel (a slightly odd one, we like it), every one packed as Sweden Bulk. If the brand is new to you we’d open with the Firm Caramels Mix because people half know it already, then bring in a flavor or two once the mix is moving. Cases in this part of the range run 0.44 to 2.2 lb. Small enough to try, and you won’t need a back room.

Softer than all of that is Bako Fudgekola Extra Soft Caramels. It’s Swedish as well and really closer to fudge, with a pull that holds at room temperature and then gives way quicker than you’d expect. Gift baskets are where it earns its spot. Tuck one beside a firm Kolafabrikens piece and the basket suddenly looks like it took more thought (and money) than it did.

The little ones are Bravokola Swedish Mini Square Caramels. A scoop-by-weight bin at an import grocer or a candy boutique is honestly where we’d put them, since a piece that small feels cheap per piece and people tend to scoop more than they meant to. Taste is the other thing. Swedish caramel is usually made with a clean dairy fat and goes easier on sugar. You notice it at the finish, which comes out richer and less cloying than the mass-market American kind.

Malaco Caramel Marshmallow Mushrooms are Swedish too, and a funny little thing. Soft marshmallow cap. Caramel-flavored base underneath. What gets noticed in the bin is the gold mushroom shape, especially by anybody who grew up near a European pick-and-mix wall and goes a bit misty about it. Malaco is a name Scandinavians know, so you won’t need to hang a sign explaining it.

Belgium gives us Golden Champagne Bear Gummy (Non-Alcoholic), which is about what it sounds like, a gold gummy bear with the whole celebration look and no alcohol in it at all. It keeps fine on a shelf. We picture it on New Year’s tables and in wedding-season impulse buys, or tucked into a graduation basket. Since there’s no alcohol, a shop that normally passes on novelty candy can carry it without a second thought.

Swiss Made Caramel Truffles are the fancy end of the page. A hotel amenity program goes for this sort of thing. Same with an upscale cafe counter or a fine-dining dessert cart, anywhere the person eating it actually cares that it’s European. The chocolate shell has a gold-ish look so it sits right in a gold-foil gift box. Swiss on the label helps as well, because people who think Swiss chocolate means quality will pay a bit more for it and the operator gets some margin without having to move a mountain of truffles.

Then the American side, which is a different animal. Peanut Butter Caramel Corn (Made in USA Bulk Snack) is here with Milk Chocolate Caramel Bites (Made in USA Bulk Candy), and so is Milk Chocolate Caramel Corn (USA Bulk Candy). Nothing exotic. That’s the point of them really. A c-store can run the European novelty down one side of a fixture and these familiar ones down the other, and the snack crowd (who think salty-sweet long before they think candy aisle) wanders over as well.

Gerrit and Ragolds are the smaller names on this page. Ragolds is European hard candy that keeps on a shelf a lot longer than the soft caramels, which we like if your display is meant to stay up all year. Cases from both have been steady. Narr is our odd favorite. It’s Swedish and it puts chocolate with salty licorice inside a caramel piece, which sounds strange until you see what it does for a shelf, since it lets the gold drift over toward the black-and-gold licorice that Scandinavia is known for without the colors falling apart.

Who buys gold candy from us is all over the map, honestly. The import grocer wants a European corner that hangs together. Warm amber does a lot of that on its own, plus there’s always somebody who came in for one thing and walks out with a scoop of Bravokola too. Gift-basket folks (corporate gifting people as well) fill baskets by color. A 2.2 lb case stretches over quite a few of those for a mid-size outfit, and the cost per piece stays sane. Delis and food halls tend to set up a pick-and-mix by the till. Hotels take it by the case for the lobby or for turn-down, and caterers do too when every portion has to look the same. Then c-stores, where our favorite setup is Peanut Butter Caramel Corn at one end and Kolafabrikens at the other, so the regular grabs what he knows and maybe tries the Swedish one next week.

Toffee people should look at gold toffee and caramel, which goes deeper on it than we do here. Caramel tucked inside chocolate lives over in bulk milk chocolate (filled pieces and enrobed ones both). Pull from the two and gold through brown comes from one place. One account to keep an eye on, which we’d take over juggling several any day.

Ordering doesn’t take much. Anyone can buy at retail or wholesale and there’s no minimum order. Depending on the item a case runs about 5 to 10 kg, enough for a decent per-unit cost without saddling you with a pile of something that turns out slow. Approved accounts get account pricing, and everything ships within the US. On the shelf card we’d name the countries. Kolafabrikens from Sweden next to the Belgian champagne bear. Swiss truffles a step over, then caramel corn from home at the end of the row. It’s one golden flavor done four ways, and label readers enjoy spotting that. Some of them come back just for the one they skipped.

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