Candy

Candy is sweet treat food item (using the term 'food' loosely, although in WoW, unlike real life, candy is good for you.) Candy is odd because it is not one of the six main types of food in WoW, but there are quite a few examples of candy and it is available from vendors. Candy is most often encountered at holiday events.

Presumably, since candy is not one of the food types that are referenced as being able to be eaten by hunter pets, hunters cannot feed candy to their pets.

Like other kinds of food, not all candy is food (provides health recovery over time). Some are consumables with an instant effect, some are cosmetic, and some are quest items.

In WoW, candy is defined by real world analogy and flavor text, who vends it, and the holiday contexts where it is used. It seems that WoW uses a broader definition of sweets than just candy, so ice cream cones are candy in WoW.

Uses

 * Player Characters can eat candy to recover health.
 * Some candy provides a Well Fed buff as well.
 * (These are the same uses as other types of food.)

Some candy items are quest objects.


 * Buying a Tigule and Foror's Strawberry Ice Cream for your orphan is an object of

Food candy
Tigule and Foror's Strawberry Ice Cream is available all year round from at the Mirage Raceway in Thousand Needles, and from  and  in Nagrand for.

During Love is in the Air, you may receive:
 * Box of Chocolates: Contains a random assortment of six chocolates:
 * Buttermilk Delight
 * Dark Desire
 * Sweet Surprise
 * Very Berry Cream

During Children's Week, in Stormwind City and  in Orgrimmar vend candy.


 * Styleen's Sour Suckerpop for
 * Tigule and Foror's Strawberry Ice Cream for
 * Moonbrook Riot Taffy for
 * Bellara's Nutterbar for

During Hallow's End, in Ironforge and  in Orgrimmar vend candy.


 * Styleen's Sour Suckerpop for
 * Tigule and Foror's Strawberry Ice Cream for
 * Moonbrook Riot Taffy for
 * Bellara's Nutterbar for
 * (also see Non-food candy below)

During Hallow's End, candy may be looted from given out by innkeepers in Azeroth and Outland.


 * Candy Bar (Hallow's End)
 * Candy Corn
 * Lollipop (Hallow's End)

(These used to also be included in the rewards, but as of 2009, these items no longer available from that source.)

In 2009, a two day event, Day of the Dead was added. This has one candy item,, which can be purchased from , the Day of the Dead vendor, found in graveyards near the eight faction cities, Shattrath, and Dalaran. The Skull Candies only last during the event, then disappear.


 * Candy Skull, price for 5 candies.

During Feast of Winter Veil, the Smokywood Pastures vendors in major cities vend candy canes, candy recipes, and other non-candy items.


 * Candy Cane (item) for
 * Recipe: Gingerbread Cookie for, teaches a cook how to make
 * Gingerbread Cookie


 * Recipe: Egg Nog for, teaches a cook how to make
 * Egg Nog
 * Though you would 'drink' Egg Nog, it has the health benefits of a food, not the mana benefits of a drink.
 * But, like many drinks, Egg Nog is alcoholic.
 * Game-wise, both eat and drink are use actions.
 * Only real-world concept, flavor text, and benefit type distinguish food and drinks.

During Feast of Winter Veil, you may receive candy as loot from a gift.


 * Winter Veil Cookie (has a well-fed buff)

During Noblegarden, you can find and loot Brightly Colored Eggs. Most of these will contain one of:


 * Lollipop (Noblegarden) (has a well-fed buff)
 * Candy Bar (Noblegarden) (has a well-fed buff)
 * Chocolate Square (has a well-fed buff)

Buffing candy
Some candy is not food (no health recovery over time) but is a buffing consumable like an elixir.

During Hallow's End, in Dun Morogh and  in Orgrimmar vend a non-food candy item.


 * Hallow's End Pumpkin Treat for provides random form changes that have in-game effects.

They will only sell these to you if you complete or.

During Hallow's End, is also a quest reward from the following quests:

During Hallow's End, if you defeat the, small pumpkin 'meteors' fall from the sky, landing on the party members. Each of these contains a small random number of:


 * Tricky Treat - provides a speed buff.

During Hallow's End, each Inn has a candy bucket on the floor that can be looted once per character for a. Looting the candy bucket at each inn is a separate quest.

can also contain a.

The Handful of Candy contains 0, 1, or 2 of each of the following:
 * Chewy Fel Taffy - Increase Hit Rating by 5 for 30 minutes.
 * G.N.E.R.D.S. - Increase Defense Rating by 5 for 30 minutes.
 * Soothing Spearmint Candy - Increases Healing by up to 11 for 30 minutes.
 * Pyroblast Cinnamon Ball - Increases Spell Damage by up to 6 for 30 minutes.

Cosmetic candy
Some candy is just cosmetic; you see a message when you 'eat' it.

During Love is in the Air, you may receive:
 * Bag of Candies: Binds on pickup. Has 10 charges and a cooldown of 10 minutes. When used, creates a Heart Candy with the player character's name stamped on it. Heart Candies are based on the real world Valentine's Day chalky confection. Each one bears an expression of affection such as "I'm all yours!" or "I'll follow you around Azeroth." Their only purpose is to give to other players.

Quest item candy
Quest items are items that are only quest objects. Quest items that look like food are not food, but food items can be quest objects.

Some candy is a quest item, and is not ingestible candy.

During Hallow's End, the quest objects of
 * Ironforge Mint
 * Stormwind Nougat
 * Gnomeregan Gumdrop
 * Darnassus Marzipan

and
 * Undercity Mint
 * Orgrimmar Nougat
 * Darkspear Gumdrop
 * Thunder Bluff Marzipan

look like candy and are talked about as if they were candy. They cannot be eaten.

Seasonal events
The candy schedule: