19 Popular Easter Candies Ranked From Worst To Best

While one should always be grateful for a wicker basket full of treats, it must be acknowledged that not all Easter candy is created equal. Every spring, candy aisles and seasonal sections are overrun with pastel-colored chocolates, egg-shaped delights, and about 100,000 different kinds of jelly beans. So what candies are worth your time and dollar and which should be put into a plastic egg and launched into oblivion via trebuchet? Don't worry; we ranked the best and worst Easter candies for you.

Jelly beans and Easter go together like peanut butter and jelly. But have you ever stopped to think if jelly beans are actually any good? We're not talking about Jelly Belly or other brands of beans (more on those later). We're talking about that classic mixture or black, white, red, yellow, orange, green, and purple beans with vaguely fruity flavors that are at once so familiar and so foreign. The texture of these beans is oddly grainy on the inside and instantly stale on the outside. Respect your Easter basket enough to skip this treat.

One of the autumn's most divisive foods likes to reappear in the spring. Yes, candy corn is known as "bunny corn" for Easter. Don't let the swap from orange and yellow to pink and purple fool you; this is the same sticky, sweet, corn syrup-loaded confection you buy for Halloween. Candy corn — or whatever you call it — is bad in the fall, and it's bad in the spring.

M&M's are one of America's favorite candies, and for a good reason. They're simple, perfectly sweet, and an easy thing to eat either just a few of or a whole bag of. As an Easter candy, though, they're nothing special. While we love a different color of M&M, beyond pretty shades of blue, purple, yellow, pink, and light green, these candies aren't anything you can't get literally any other time of year.

These days, Cadbury Mini Eggs may shimmer and shine, but that doesn't make them any better than a mid-range candy. We love these eggs because the chocolate is a nice, creamy quality and an egg shape is festive fun for the Easter season. But we don't love the candy shell. Somehow, it just reminds us of old-fashioned candies we totally forgot existed (for a reason).

While Cadbury Crème Eggs are really only so-so, Cadbury's caramel-filled eggs are where it's at. When you take a bite into that egg-shaped milk chocolate confection, a caramel filling that is pure perfection oozes out. Not too sweet, smooth, or sticky, this caramel egg is something we dream about all year long.

If you're looking for something simple yet scrumptious to put in your Easter basket, consider the Dove Egg. This confection can be found pretty much anywhere and for a very reasonable price. But Dove makes really delicious chocolates, and their milk chocolate stands strongly on its own.

If you're not a big fan of ham, lamb, or other Easter dinners, just grab yourself a Snickers egg. Like the candy bar it comes from, this chocolate, caramel, nougat, and peanut combination is truly filling. And who doesn't like a Snickers bar? It's a classic for a reason!

Are solid chocolate bunnies really a top-five Easter candy while their hollow counterparts are left far, far behind? Yes. What it all boils down to is quality. Not all hollow Easter bunnies are cheap and chalky, but you're going to find a lot of cheap, chalky bun-buns hopping into baskets every spring. Meanwhile, if you try hard enough and head to the best chocolate shop in your state, you can get a high-quality and totally cute chocolate bunny if you want one.

While black jelly beans and jelly beans of unknown origin are our least favorite candies, we have to give credit where credit is due and say that Starburst jelly beans are the star of fruity Easter candies. A little sour, perfectly sweet, and in flavors that are actually familiar, these bright, bold candies are the best possible cargo for any plastic egg.