Hello my naughty knotties. I have a tendency to go a little overboard so I need some opinions. How many different kinds of candy is everyone using for their candy buffets? We are doing a cookie/candy buffet with the apothecary jars and I am having trouble knowing when enough is enough. We will have about 100 guests, and will also have cake for dessert. I know I am going to do WAAAY too much, I often do, I am aiming for plentiful and impressive. I don't want it to look ridiculous.
Re: XP: Too many options??
I went waaaay overboard on the candy. We had 99 people at the reception and I had about 65 lbs of candy. It was all pretty much gone at the end of the night but that was because I kept going around to people telling them to fill up their bags because I didn't want to take any of it home! Plus a few of Todd's younger cousins filled up about 3 bags full.
We had about 10 different candies: skittles, laffy taffy (2 flavors), reese's peanut butter cups, gumballs, caramels, jelly beans, tootsie pops, sour patch kids, m&ms, and something else I'm forgetting at the moment.
[QUOTE]Cool, thanks. I was thinking 6-8 types of candy and 5-6 types of cookies. I keep finding more cool jars though! <strong>We are going for all black and white, </strong>which is hard to do if you aren't crazy about licorice. Now I just need to find someone who wants the pink Good n Plentys lol.
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<div>What candies are you planning to use if it's all going to be black and white? </div><div>
</div><div>Also, like Liz said - 35lbs should be fine. You can go overboard, but be prepared to either take home a lot or go around making sure people fill up. My cousin has an awesome candy buffet with a huge selection but there was a lot leftover. </div>
I know I will have a TON left over no matter what! I just don't want it to look stupid!!