Handmade in Minneapolis since 2021

Handmade lollipops with a flavour you have to guess

Sweets with an unexpected twist you won't find in an ordinary supermarket. Every piece is cooked, pulled, folded and wrapped by hand in our kitchen on 3rd Avenue — in trays of forty or fifty, never forty thousand.

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Pickup by appointment in south Minneapolis · Order requests answered within two business days

Six handmade lollipops in violet, teal, amber, rose and pale green standing in a wooden stand.

Six flavours in rotation

Pulled by hand, on a slab

Every sheet of sugar is folded and pulled over marble before it is shaped. That is where the layers, the shine and the way it breaks come from. There is no machine in this kitchen doing that part.

Batches of forty or fifty

We cook small so we can taste as we go. If a batch clouds over or the colour muddies, it doesn't leave the kitchen — it goes into the jar by the door that we all eat from.

Flavour first, colour second

We design what you taste before we decide what you see. A few of our favourite pieces are the least photogenic things we make, which is why we photograph them slowly and in good light.

This month's tray

A few of the candies on the bench right now

Our list is short on purpose. Seven candies, some of them seasonal, all of them made in this kitchen from sugar, colour and whatever we have been arguing about that week.

Lollipop · 2.5 in round

Nocturne Nebula

Blackcurrant first, then burnt sugar, then a cool herbal finish that takes a second to name.

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Lollipop · tall rectangle

Ember Line

Smoked honey and orange peel, then a warmth that stays in the back of your throat.

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Lollipop · 2.5 in round

Tidepool

Lime zest and sea salt, then vanilla, then something that tastes like cold air.

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The guessing game

Can you guess the flavour at first bite?

That question is the whole reason this shop exists. Most candy tells you everything before you open the wrapper: the colour, the name, the cartoon on the front. Ours asks you to slow down for ten seconds and pay attention.

So we leave the ingredient list off the website. Not because there is anything to hide — we will tell you exactly what is in a batch if you ask — but because knowing the answer in advance spoils the only trick we have. Taste it, guess, then write to us and we will tell you whether you were right.

Hand-pulled Small batch Wrapped by hand Flavour first

A candymaker pulling a rope of hot golden sugar across a marble slab in the Sugarwren kitchen.

Ordering

How an order works

There is no basket and no checkout on this site. Candy is made in small runs, so we confirm every order by hand before anything is cooked.

Pick your candies

Read the flavour notes and choose what sounds good, or ask for a mixed box and let us decide.
Send a request

Use the order form with the quantities you have in mind. No payment is taken on this website.
We reply by email

Within two business days you get availability, the total price and the next pickup windows.
Collect your box

Pick it up at the kitchen by appointment, or we will quote shipping within Minnesota and beyond.