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Right lovely ones, I have a genuine question for you. Now Sidmouth Folk week is over, it’s our traditional time to start planning our Christmas in store sweet offers. Designing new American candy hampers and this years ‘in’ sweet gift. We have a cracking traditional sweet Christmas Eve pack in mind for this year –…
We’re so proud and happy to report that DaffyDownDilly’s award winning sweet shop is growing. Our Award Winning Sweet shop and Online sweet shop offering customers the opportunity to buy sweets online are super popular. And to support that growth we have a strong and knowledgable team in place to ensure that our strong standards…
The rise of challenge level mega sour sweets is truly amazing. There will always be a place for traditional and retro sweets of course, but our younger cutomers particularly are very much looking for the extremes in confectionery. If you’re up for a sweet challenge we’ve got just the sweets for you. Whether you want…
Our Award Winning sweet shop is sure to have just the sweet treat you’re looking for whether you prefer to buy sweets online or in store. From the very best in sour and fizzy sweets, gummy and jelly sweets, American chocolate, retro sweet hampers and American candy hampers. To quality traditional sweets and retro sweets,…
The perfect ideas for Father’s Day presents! Well already it’s June… amazing! In all the shop hustle and bustle and preparation for the hectic summer season in Devon, time is genuinely flying! Our stockroom and shelves are filled to bursting and new staff are building up confidence and speed as they go – we’re looking…
Jelly Sweets – In our quest to find the nation’s favorite sweet, it’s the turn of Jelly and gummy sweets this week to face our popularity test… We love jelly sweets… from soft and squishy Jelly Bones to Giant Strawberries, Happy Cherries to Baby Dolphins. Jelly sweets are timeless and not restricted by any means…
Last week was a tale of two halves for me at Daffydowndilly. Tuesday, working on my own, was a quiet day but I still needed my sense of humour, which gave me the chance to have a bit of a sort out in the stock room. Sunday, on the other hand was busy busy busy…
So our Traditional Sweets section is super popular and growing as more and more younger people are introduced to the delights of Sherbet Lemons. Winter Mix, Grays’ Herbal Tablets and Victory V’s. Whether you prefer to buy sweets online including of course traditional sweets. Or in our award winning sweet shop you can be sure of…
There is something exciting about the arrival of sunnier days, it lifts the mood and everybody seems to have a spring in their step. Gardens are blooming and it’s almost time to dig out those flip flops and sunglasses!! So what better way to enjoy the delights of Springtime than with one of our delicious…
Sweets – Well you will all know by know that we live and breathe sweets at DaffyDownDilly! There are without question standout favourite sweet choices in our shop, and we thought we’d share them with you… we have a huge range available so to make it a little bit simpler, this time I’m going to…
We have been asked this week to answer a few questions about DaffyDownDilly Confectioners for the newspaper. So if you fancy a sneak preview, here you are… Please Introduce yourself. Hi, My name is Natalie Brittain and I’m a co-founder and proprietor of DaffyDownDilly Confectioners at 63 High Street, Sidmouth. I’m married to Rob and we…
My 4th day working at Daffydowndilly has flown by with a focus on American sweets! We spent most of this morning restocking our American range of goodies. Including cereal boxes of Reeces Puffs and Lucky Charms. And jars of Reeces Peanut Butter which I’m told are very popular. It has been a steep learning curve so…
Wowzers, what a busy DaffyDownDilly Easter we’ve had! So many children in with their pocket money choosing a selection of their favorite sweets… it’s been brilliant! And the number of boxes of Beanboozled jelly beans that have left the building is extraordinary. Hope you’ve all enjoyed the experience? I will never forget those flavours, that’s…
Our range of beautiful bonbons is increasing! It’s an unusual name if you think about it, that originates from German and translates as meaning candy, or sweetie. Bonbons are a real traditional sweet, with the first report of them way back in the 17th Century at the French royal court. Bonbons And over time, they…
Our Sweet shop Sidmouth. A recent article in the Daily Mail featured our wonderful town and some of it’s heritage. And it’s inspired me to write this time about what a fantastic place Sidmouth is to live and work in and just how lucky we are! Daffy-down-dilly Confectioners is a family business and we are…
We are thrilled to say that our beautiful cardboard Easter Eggs are back again this year! Imported specifically by us from Germany our Easter eggs really are super special! As always, we really wanted to offer something a little different for Easter. And know from experience that children of all ages love a mix of…
This Sunday 6th March is Mother’s Day in the UK – hope you’ve all remembered!! The Day when we all offically say thank you to our Mums. No matter how old we are they remain our constants, our supports and they’re just pretty fabulous really. I’d certainly be lost without mine! These days, more and…
The Wedding Season and it’s wedding favours is fast approaching and we love it at DaffyDownDilly! It’s fabulous to be part of a couples’ plans and special day. And we take great pride in delivering quality and stunning favours and sweets. From sweets for candy buffets, to tiered Candy Cakes and individually designed favours. We…
I can’t believe it’s that time again! Pancake Day, or Shrove Tuesday to give it it’s proper name, is on Tuesday the 9th of February this year. The word ‘shrove’ derives from the English word ‘shrive’, which means to obtain absolution for your sins by making a confession and paying a penance. The custom was for…
At our Devon sweet shop, we have well in excess of 300 jars of loose sweets to choose from. And absolutely no minimum purchase requirement. So our customers are free to mix and match from our sweet treats as much as they want to! It’s well worth it when you see the smiles on particularly…
What is it about chocolate? It’s a well-known fact amongst confectioners that sales of the brown stuff always go up in the winter… We’re always interested in why our customers choose the sweets that they do. We have an awful lot to choose from so why chocolate raisins and not coated cinder toffee? Why Chewing…
At DaffyDownDilly we love designing bespoke sweet party bags for our customers. Often colour themes are in demand, and we have to admit, we have made an awful lot of Frozen themed party bags!! Our customers say that they love our matching cone gift bags and that they take away a lot of the stress…
We have been delighted by the on-going popularity of our range of Sugar Free Sweets. Both in our Sidmouth shop and online. From Mint Humbugs to Chocolate Eclairs and Cola Bottles. To Rhubarb and Custard and Rosey Apples, there is a huge range to choose from. Suitable for diabetics and for those customers wanting to…
We have a lovely range of authentically Mexican Piñatas always in stock at DaffyDownDilly. Colourful, fun and different, Mexican Piñatas are so popular for party games, weddings and celebrations and suitable for all ages! Our online sweet shop offers the opportunity to buy sweets online as well as many funky Mexican Piñatas. So if you’re…
Well, Christmas is nearly upon us and the most asked question of the week in DaffyDownDilly must be ‘Have you got any Christmas Candy Canes?’ ‘Absolutely we have – which size would you like?’ I wondered what started the tradition of hanging minty hooked sticks of candy from our Christmas trees in the first…
A sweet treat. Christmas is a time for buying gifts and treating those who you hold closest to you; however the difficulty can come when you are not sure exactly what to buy them. Perfume, bath sets, socks and even a bottle of wine are all standard gifts for those who are running out of…
I thought it was time that I talked a bit about what it is like to own and run a DaffyDownDilly Confectioners store, so here we go… Well, we’ve all seen sweet shops and when Daffy was born we were clear that we wanted to be different to the rest. We wanted to provide a…
I was in DaffyDownDilly the other day looking at the fabulous selection of sweets. Along with the American candy and other confectionery gifts we offer our customers when I noticed a very nice lady with a little girl who was choosing sweets to buy with her pocket money. After about 10 minutes this little girl…
Time to be grateful… So, as you know DaffyDownDilly Confectioners sell a lot of American sweets, candies and treats and it hasn’t escaped our notice that it’s Thanksgiving on November 26th. Our American fans and customers are focussed on Candy Corn and Pumpkin Pie – delicious! Thanksgiving originated as a way to celebrate a bountiful…
DaffyDownDilly What on earth has the name DaffyDownDilly got to do with a Sidmouth High Street confectioners and on-line sweet shop? Well, it’s the name we chose for our business and we chose it for a very good reason. But why DaffyDownDilly? Any guesses? I can tell you for starters that the name has nothing…
Thinking back to my childhood, one of the sweets I enjoyed the most, not just for it’s great flavour but also for the seemingly endless collectability of its dispensers was PEZ. Remember trying to safely transfer your 12 sweets from the packet safely into the dispenser without them escaping the column? Easier said than done…
GIFT HAMPERS There can’t be many affordable presents that are as well received as a wicker hamper crammed full with the recipient’s favourite treats. Quite often gift hampers contain items that you love to have but they’re a bit of a luxury. So you don’t buy them very often for yourself. They’re fabulous to receive…
With only a couple of weeks to go, we have Halloween firmly on our minds at DaffyDownDilly. Our shelves are full of skulls, pumpkins, ghosts, snakes, rats and frog sweets and candies… yum! But being surrounded by all these themed sweets got us thinking… Where did Trick or Treating come from? How did it start…
Sweet Weddings It’s no surprise to anyone that sweets and candies at weddings and family celebrations are incredibly popular. Indeed, what better things could there be to add to a sharing table than a beautiful sweet wedding cake and a candy buffet! We’ve found that retro sweets in particular are a fantastic talking point and…
So… this summer in Sidmouth there has been a definite trend towards the more adventurous flavour sweets… It’s fascinating to watch the queues of eager smiling people ready to put themselves through the Bean Boozled challenge. Or participate in a Bertie Botts Beans or mega sour contest! While we continue to sell copious amounts of…
Our DaffyDownDilly Franchise Opportunity. If you’re keen to start up your own business to enjoy all the benefits of working for yourself and you don’t have business experience it’s a jolly good idea not to underestimate the challenges of doing so successfully on your own. Franchising is a proven, safer, way of going into business.…
Now, please don’t panic… but Father’s Day is nearly upon us. We’re always looking for that perfect, special and original gift to let our Dad’s know how great they are and how much we appreciate them, right? Father’s Day sweets! Well, we have news… Lots of Dads like sweets 🙂 and we have lots and…
Sweet Candy Cakes With the summer party feeling as though it’s firmly on it’s way (in Devon anyway!), we thought we would share some of our Daffy-down-dilly sweet Candy cakes. Over the last year we have tweaked and adapted our candy cakes which can be made with your own choice of sweets in colour or…
We are thrilled to say that our beautiful cardboard Easter Eggs have safely arrived. Are you looking for different Easter Eggs this year? We really wanted to offer something a little different for Easter this year and know that children love a mix of goodies. So we were over the moon to find these fantastic…
Candy Cakes Are you looking for something just that little bit different to celebrate a special birthday or event? Candy cakes could be just the thing you’re looking for. At DaffyDownDilly we specialise in creating to your specification delicious cakes made entirely of sweets – brilliant huh? Cakes can be singular or displayed in several…
In response to the huge and growing demand for Sugar Free sweets, we have just expanded our range to include 25 varieties of boiled, jelly and chewy Sugar Free sweets. Why not try a sugar free sweets selection to find your favourite? Gift box filled with sugar free sweets
From fantastic boxes of jelly hearts, to Sweethearts, to beautiful hand prepared boxes of delicious chocolates and Valentines candy cakes, we have plenty to choose from to make Valentines Day 2015 extra special! Just pop in and ask if you have a favourite you would us to present for you. So Valentines Day Sweets are…
Award Winning DaffyDownDilly We are proud and delighted to announce that on the 10th January 2015 we won the New Enterprise of 2015 Award as part of the Sid Valley Business Awards. Well, are we chuffed? Especially in our first year of business… We would love to take the opportunity to thank our amazing supportive…
Sugared Almonds Sweets
£1.20 – £5.20
Heart Throb Jelly Sweets
£1.20 – £5.20
Green Sweets Cone Bag
£2.75 – £3.95
Lions Sports Mixture Sweets
£1.25 – £3.00
Pick and Mix sweet Jar Ultimate Selection
£21.50
Indulge in Dark Chocolate Brazil Nuts
by Dean
Giant Fizzers Sweets
by Linda H.
Jelly filled Turtles sweets
by Linda H.
Baby Dolphins Jelly Sweets
by Linda H.
Snail jelly sweets
by Linda H.