November 4 is National Candy Day. It celebrates popular types of candy (like chocolate and fruit candies) and less popular candies (like licorice and candy corn).
There’s so many ways to observe this November national day. You can read the list of fun facts about candy below, or make one of the candy recipes at the bottom of this post.
Don’t let the love for candy stop now that Halloween is over. Keep your sweet tooth happy all year long!
How to celebrate National Candy Day
The answer to this question is obvious! Treat yourself to your favorite candy sweet treat. Here are some other ways to celebrate the day.
- Get this free November word search puzzle of national days and look for National Candy Day in it.
- Make one of the candy recipes at the bottom of this post.
- Help spread the word on social media, using the hashtag #nationalcandyday
- Make a trip to the candy shop to discover some new varieties of candy.
- Take a candy making course.
- Make some caramel apples covered in candy (it’s just one of dozens of caramel apple toppings!)
- Make some home made candy at home.
- Send your friends a Candy Gram.
- Donate some candy to the food bank.
- Make a candy pizza.
- Learn the fun facts about candy below.
Fun facts about candy
Whether you have a fondness for caramels, gummy worms, hard candy or chocolate, National Candy Day is the day that you’ll be interested in these fun facts about the history of candy. 
- Believe it or not, less than 2% of the calories in the average American diet comes from eating candy.
- A one-ounce chunk of milk chocolate has just about the same amount of caffeine as a cup of decaf coffee.
- In Germany, they eat twice as much candy as we do here in the USA!
- Candy was not always available to the masses. In the middle ages, the high cost of candy made it a treat that only the wealthy could afford.
- 65% of the candy manufactured in the USA is consumed by those over the age of 18. (I guess we keep the best stuff for ourselves!)
- The Snickers candy bar, (introduced in 1929,) was named after the family horse of Frank and Ethel Mars.
- Milk Chocolate was created in 1875 by Daniel Peter and Henri Nestle.
- Some candies actually are free of fat and cholesterol, which makes them a healthier choice. Options are hard candy, gum drops, Twizzlers and lollipops.
- All candy is popular but there is a list of the top 10 top selling candy varieties. M&Ms and Peanut Butter Cups are at the top of the list!
Recipes for homemade candy
Making candy at home is much easier than you might think. If you have some kind of sugar, you’ll be half way there! Check out these delicious candy recipes.
- Perfect for this time of the year, this Salted Pumpkin Fudge is a Paleo and Vegan sweet treat that is perfect for the Thanksgiving dessert table.
- These raspberry cheesecake truffles are great for both Christmas and Valentine’s Day. They are super easy to make!
- Christmas will be here before we know it. Time to make up a batch of this Peppermint Bark. It makes a great home made Christmas gift.
- Do you need a Reese’s Peanut butter cup fix? Try making these chocolate peanut butter truffles. The candy leaf sprinkles makes them perfect for autumn.
- If you have someone in your family who is vegan, they don’t have to miss out. Normal fudge contains butter but this vegan peanut butter fudge has a great substitute that works just fine and tastes great.
- Who doesn’t love Bailey’s Irish Cream this time of the year. Instead of drinking it, use it to make this Bailey’s Irish Cream Fudge. The flavor is amazing!
- Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t… but you always feel like a piece of this homemade almond joy candy.
- Learn how to make the traditional Christmas favorite – chocolate covered cherries. You won’t believe how easy it is.
- One of my favorite Holiday treats is peanut brittle. Do you know you can make it in the microwave? Check out my recipe for homemade peanut brittle here.
- The holidays would not be complete in our house without some homemade buckeye fudge. It’s like a Reese’s peanut butter cup, but better!
- Combine the flavor of peanuts and chocolate with these peanut cluster recipes for National Peanut Cluster Day.
More November 4 national days
Did you enjoy learning about National Candy Day? You’ll be excited to know that there are over 150 national days in November to enjoy! Like National Candy Day, many of the observances are national food days.
Here is a list of all the November 4 national days:
- National Candy Day
- National Chicken Lady Day
- National Skeptics Day
- Use your Common Sense Day
- National Stress Awareness Day
For more ways to celebrate this month, check out these lists of national days in November and food days in November.
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Admin note: this post for National Candy Day first appeared on the blog in November of 2018. I have updated the post to add new recipes, and a video for you to enjoy.