Boxes for chocolates, gummies, fudge and pick and mix, printed in full color. Tuck end, pillow box, a window lid or a proper rigid gift box with dividers, we’ll help you choose (a paper liner inside if your candy is unwrapped). Shop shelves, party favors, Christmas, Valentine’s, the lot.
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Candy is an impulse buy, and it’s also one of the most common gifts there is. So the box has two jobs. It has to grab someone walking past the shelf, and it has to look nice enough to hand to a friend. Custom candy boxes do both, while keeping sweets clean, separated and in one piece on the way home.
We work with candy shops, chocolatiers, bakeries with a sweets counter, party favor businesses and brands selling online. The details change a lot depending on the candy. Hard candy is easy. Fudge is heavy and a bit sticky. Gummies shift around. Chocolates melt if you look at them wrong. We plan the box around whatever you’re putting in it.
First question we ask: is it wrapped? If every piece has its own wrapper you can tip them loose into a tuck box or a pillow box and be done, but naked truffles are a different story, they scuff and stick and smudge, so they want a paper liner or a little cavity tray. Fudge and brittle? A flat lidded box, a sheet of glassine underneath.
A window is worth considering for any candy that looks good. Bright gummies, swirled lollipops and colorful hard candies sell themselves when people can see them. We can add a clear film window in any shape, though round and rectangular windows are the most common.
Most of our candy boxes are SBS paperboard, the bright white stuff that takes color nicely and is smooth enough to line without fuss. The old-timey sweet shops usually go kraft with a one color logo (we like that combo a lot, to be fair). Rigid board we save for the fancy end, a 24 piece chocolate assortment or wedding favors.
Humid where you are? Sugar pulls water out of the air, so hard candy sitting in an unlined box in a Florida summer goes tacky pretty fast, and wrappers or an inner bag sort it out. For chocolate, keep the boxes away from warm storerooms and shop windows (a sunny window display can soften chocolate in an afternoon).
Candy packaging is one place where fun shapes really pay off. A few that work well:
Many brands also do seasonal versions with the same box shape and new artwork for Valentine’s, Easter, Halloween and Christmas. That way your dieline stays the same and only the print changes. Take a look at our Christmas candy boxes and lollipop boxes for seasonal ideas, or browse chocolate packaging. If you’re working out gift sizes, our gift box sizes guide is a handy reference.
If it’s wrapped, sure, loose is fine. Unwrapped chocolate and fudge though, we’d put on glassine or a liner, or in a cavity tray.
Honestly that’s mostly down to the coating or dusting your kitchen puts on them, plus an inner bag when it’s muggy out. The box is more about keeping light off and stopping them getting crushed.
Once you approve the proof, figure 10 to 12 business days, and we can rush it if Valentine’s is sneaking up on you. You can start small too, often around 50 boxes depending on the style.
Brands ordering these often look at custom chocolate packaging boxes, macaron boxes, muffin boxes and custom truffle boxes as well. You can see the full range in bakery packaging boxes.
