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Check out the most popular Halloween candy in each state

Megan Swift
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With just hours until Halloween, last-minute candy shoppers are stocking up for trick-or-treaters.

In Pennsylvania, though, shoppers are likely purchasing Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.

Reese’s cups are the most popular Halloween candy in the Keystone State, according to DoorDash.

The company analyzed customer candy orders made between Oct. 1 and Oct. 31 last year to find the rankings, Reader’s Digest reported.

These are the most popular in every state, according to DoorDash:

  • Alabama: Sweet Smiles Candy
  • Alaska: Nerds
  • Arizona: Red Vines
  • Arkansas: Sweet Smiles Candy
  • California: Snickers
  • Colorado: Haribo
  • Connecticut: Sour Patch Kids
  • Delaware: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
  • Florida: Skittles
  • Georgia: Trolli
  • Hawaii: Cadbury
  • Idaho: Red Vines
  • Illinois: Twizzlers Twists
  • Indiana: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
  • Iowa: Laffy Taffy
  • Kansas: Sweet Smiles Candy
  • Kentucky: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
  • Louisiana: Sweet Smiles Candy
  • Maine: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
  • Maryland: Snickers
  • Massachusetts: Airheads
  • Michigan: Twizzlers Twists
  • Minnesota: Laffy Taffy
  • Mississippi: Sweet Smiles Candy
  • Missouri: Twizzlers Twists
  • Montana: Red Vines
  • Nebraska: Laffy Taffy
  • Nevada: Snickers
  • New Hampshire: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
  • New Jersey: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
  • New Mexico: Sweetarts
  • New York: Twizzlers Twists
  • North Carolina: Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Bar
  • North Dakota: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
  • Ohio: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
  • Oklahoma: Sweetarts
  • Oregon: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
  • Pennsylvania: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
  • Rhode Island: Trolli
  • South Carolina: Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Bar
  • South Dakota: Sweetarts
  • Tennessee: Sweet Smiles Candy
  • Texas: Trolli
  • Utah: Sweetarts
  • Vermont: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
  • Virginia: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
  • Washington: Twix
  • West Virginia: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
  • Wisconsin: Twizzlers Twists
  • Wyoming: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups

Pennsylvania had the same pick as the No. 1 most popular Halloween candy across the United States. The Reese’s chocolatey peanut butter cups held the No. 1 spot in 14 states.

Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups were the top-ordered candy on Instacart last October, followed by Peanut M&Ms, regular M&Ms, and Kit Kats, Food & Wine reported.

The full list of the Top 10 Halloween candy, DoorDash said, include:

1. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups

2. M&M’s

3. Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Bar

4. Snickers

5. Skittles

6. Nerds

7. Sour Patch Kids

8. Twix

9. Kit Kat

10. Airheads

Megan Swift is a TribLive reporter covering trending news in Western Pennsylvania. A Murrysville native, she joined the Trib full time in 2023 after serving as editor-in-chief of The Daily Collegian at Penn State. She previously worked as a Jim Borden Scholarship intern at the Trib for three summers. She can be reached at mswift@triblive.com.

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