Danish Candy
After a busy week it is finally time to start off the weekend! And how to do that better then with some delicious candy. Also known as ‘Fredagsslik’ in Denmark. Friday night is traditionally the time when the family meets for some coziness on the couch in front off the tv and spoil themselves with some danish sweets. This is the candy that danish people are crazy about:
BOLCHER aka SWEETS
Kongen af Danmark
The story goes that they are named after King Christian the 5th because his doctors would give him his medicine in hard candy form as he refused to take it otherwise. This dates back to the 17th century, since he died in 1699. These sweet bolcher has a hint of anise oil in it, that gives it a light and sweet liquorice-like taste and scent.
Tyrkisk Peber
This salty liquorice sweet was created in Denmark in 1977. In Finland, it has been produced by Fazer since the 1990s.
Tip: use this bolcher to spice up your vodka. Crush them and let sit in vodka to create a strongly flavoured shot, find the whole recipe for home made Tyrkisk Peber Vodka here.
LAKRIDS aka LIQUORICE
Danes love their liquorice! While most countries just eat liquorice as candy itself, the Danes love getting creative with it. You would maybe think that ice-cream and liquorice is a strange combination, the Danes definitely think otherwise. It is also very common to find chocolate with liquorice, cookies with liquorice, gum with liquorice, cupcakes with liquorice and they even cook meals with liquorice.
Create your own opinion by trying it out yourself! These unique products will definitely surprise your taste buts:
Blok Chocolate Liquorice Strong
Blok Chocolate Liquorice Mild
Carletti P-tærter Liquorice
Coop Liquorice Chocolate
Toms Yankie Liquorice
Stimorol Liquorice
V6 Chewing Gum Dental Liquorice
Funny fact:
If you think that Danish people eat a lot of liquorice, the Dutch are topping it off! With consumption of over 4 pounds of liquorice (almost 2 kg) per person per year, the dutch are the number one liquorice lovers in the world.
CHOKOLADE & KARAMELLER aka CHOCOLATE & CARAMELS
Flødeboller
These delicious treats are filled with sweetened egg white foam surrounded with a layer of thin chocolate. The first Danish flødeboller maker was the chocolate factory Elvirasminde in Aarhus. Flødeboller - then called Negerkys - saw the light of day either in late 1905 or early 1906.
Karameller 
Chewy, sticky and all in between your teeth. Be aware; If you take one, it’s likely to take an other one.......and an other one. These delicious karameller are hard to resist:
Toms Classic Gold Caramels
Anton Berg Sweet Moments Chocolate & Caramel
Fazer Dumle Original
Skildpadder
The first Toms Skildpadder saw the light of day in 1948, inspired by tropical turtles, which washed ashore at Denmarks northwest coast Sjællands Odde. The turtles became newspaper headlines and thus the idea was born to make them into a chocolate form. In 1967 the turtles grew into giants and so a bigger version was created. You can find these with caramel filled chocolates in different sizes here:
Toms Kæmpe Skildpadder
Toms Mini Skildpadder
VINGUMMI aka WINE GUMS
An old time danish favourite is Matador Mix from Haribo, a mix of wine gums, liquorice and drage which was introduced in 1983. It was the first Haribo bag in Denmark to contain a mixture of their products and has since the introduction been the best selling candy bag from Haribo in Denmark. Matador Mix is named after the TV series Matador which many people watched.
For the extreme liquorice lovers they made Matador Dark Mix. Same concept but then with some more liquorice flavour. Find all the danish winegum variations here.
Funny fact:
Wine gums are eaten all over the world, but did you know that there is a difference in flavour in Europe and in the USA? American green coloured ones are strawberry flavour and in Europe they taste like apple.
You can find our full selection of danish candy here.
Have a delicious weekend!
