Best candy bars

Kit Kat▲ Rising

That snap before the bite became its own sound effect, and 'Have a break, have a Kit Kat' turned a wafer bar into a ritual instead of just a snack. Its four-fingered design invented candy bar sharing etiquette, whether you snapped off a piece for a friend or hoarded the whole thing guiltily. Simple, crisp, endlessly re-flavored worldwide, it earns its spot for making texture the main character.

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Reese's Peanut Butter Cups▲ Rising

Two flavors that had no business tasting this good together, sealed in a corrugated cup since 1928, and the world simply agreed it was right. It turned peanut butter and chocolate into America's default flavor combo and spawned an empire of seasonal shapes, but the original cup remains the standard everyone else is measured against. This tops the list because it didn't just win the category — it defined it.

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Snickers▲ Rising

Nougat, caramel, peanuts, chocolate — a full meal disguised as a candy bar, which is exactly why 'you're not you when you're hungry' landed as the perfect slogan decades after its 1930 debut. It's the bar people actually keep in desk drawers and glove compartments because it functions as edible emergency fuel. Hearty, dense, and satisfying in a way that flimsier bars never manage, it ranks high for sheer substance.

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Twix▲ Rising

The cookie crunch under caramel and chocolate gave candy bars a whole new architecture, and the 'left Twix vs right Twix' ad campaign turned a manufacturing non-issue into a genuinely fun cultural debate. Two individually wrapped bars in one pack made it the rare candy built for pacing yourself, or not. It lands mid-pack for being a genuine innovator that still tastes like a treat, not a trick.

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Milky Way▲ Rising

The bar that started it all for Mars in 1923, its fluffy malted nougat and caramel under chocolate practically invented the American candy bar template everyone since has riffed on. It never chased peanuts or wafers — just stayed soft, sweet, and unpretentious for a century. Its place here is earned as the quiet ancestor whose DNA runs through half this list.

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Butterfinger

That impossibly crispy, flaky peanut-butter center shatters unlike anything else in the aisle, and Bart Simpson's decade-long endorsement burned its jingle into a generation's brain. It's messy, it gets stuck in your teeth, and somehow that's part of the charm — nobody eats a Butterfinger gracefully. It ranks here for being the most distinctive texture in candy, love it or curse it.

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100 Grand

Chewy caramel, crisped rice, and chocolate compressed into a bar that's basically a candy bar's answer to a Rice Krispie treat with ambition. It never got the marketing muscle of its Nestlé siblings but built a quiet cult following among people who prize crunch-to-chew ratio above all else. It ranks near the bottom of this list only because it's more of a beloved sleeper hit than a mainstream titan.

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M&M's▲ Rising

'Melts in your mouth, not in your hand' wasn't just a slogan, it was a battlefield-tested promise from WWII soldiers who needed chocolate that survived heat, and that hard shell became one of the most recognizable candy innovations ever. The anthropomorphic mascots turned a simple button of chocolate into a marketing juggernaut that's lasted generations. It sits here for changing how the world thinks about portable chocolate, even if the shell adds more convenience than flavor.

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Hershey's Cookies 'n' Creme▼ Falling

No cocoa, no caramel, no nougat — just white chocolate studded with cookie bits, and somehow it carved out real estate in a category dominated by dark, gooey classics. It's the bar for people who find regular chocolate bars too intense, proof that 'cookies and cream' is a flavor category all its own outside of ice cream. It ranks lower here for being genuinely good but a genre unto itself rather than a true contender against the heavyweights.

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Almond Joy▼ Falling

Coconut and almonds draped in chocolate made this the bar for people who think candy should taste like a tropical vacation, not a sugar bomb, and its 'sometimes you feel like a nut' campaign leaned hard into its polarizing identity. It's divisive by design — you either crave that chewy coconut or actively avoid it. It lands last here because its niche appeal, while devoted, simply can't out-vote the crowd-pleasers above it.

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