I like a good sour candy and all the weirdness that accompanies eating it…. the lip-puckering, the eye-watering, the body-twitching. Now’s your chance to share your involuntary, sour candy-eating reflexes with the world!

Sour Punch candy announced a contest called “How Far Would You Go?” The winner of the contest gets 5000 big ones, and there are some weekly prizes too. Get all the details on the Sour Punch Facebook page.

“We designed this contest … to give our fans the opportunity to show us what great lengths they’re willing to go to for their favorite sour candy,” explained Kristi Shafer, Brand Manager of Sour Confections for American Licorice Company. “We have been blown away with the creative submissions that Sour Punch® fans have submitted in our past video contests and can’t wait to see what they’ll come up with this year.”

So, Candy Addicts, let’s give Ms. Shafer her money’s worth! Get your cameras and record yourself shoving your piehole full of those sour straws, or doing the Lady and the Tramp with your sweetheart, or the cherry stem-in-a-knot trick with one, or… wait! That’s a good one! I’m outta here to record it!

Meanwhile, leave your big idea in the comments or link to your video after it’s uploaded. Contest ends July 10th, 2011

• Press Release announcing contest
• Sour Punch Facebook page.
• Sour Punch website
• Buy Sour Punch candy online

Okay, that was a little bit of a tease. You can’t win Dylan’s Candy Bar, but you can win a Dylan’s Candy Bar-themed stroller for your wee Candy Addict!

Babble.com and Maclaren are giving away a Dylan’s Candy Bar stroller. Entry into the giveaway is easy peasy. All you have to do is leave a comment on the blog post. Act quick because the winner will be announced June 20th.

Maclaren and Dylan’s Candy Bar have teamed up for the sweetest summer stroller of the year. Part of Maclaren’s “Objects of Design Collection,” the Dylan’s Candy Bar buggy is a whimsical, colorful, edible-looking Volo stroller in the same color scheme as the always-yummy Dylan’s Candy Bar company. It might be the happiest little stroller I’ve ever seen! Perfect for summer strolling.

Good luck Candy Addicts! Soon your budding chocoholic could be strolling in style!

• Enter to win Dylan’s Candy Bar Stroller

Instructables is having a DIY candy contest where you can win an iPad!

Everybody loves candy! And we want you to share your favorites with us. Chocolatey, gooey, sticky, or chewy, we want to know what kind of candies make your pulse race. Recreate your favorites, share your grandma’s recipes, or make up something completely new! Create a new Instructable, Photo, or Video sharing your favorite candy recipes and techniques with us for a chance to win a custom-etched iPad loaded up with Instructables eBooks or other great prizes. We can’t wait to see what you make!

They already have a bunch of really cool entries, so check them out and enter yours now! Contest closes for entries at 11:59pm PST, March 13, 2011.

• Instructables candy contest

Contest closed
Thanks for the winning comment, Amy! What a great memory! I once pantsed someone and am often reminded of it. ;) Here’s the winning comment:

i love the peppermint bark, but i was really intrigued by the caramel filled squares i tried last summer. great combination.

my favorite holiday tradition is getting to open one gift on christmas eve. as a kid, having to choose just the right one was soooo hard.

and i remember the year my mom gave us christmas themed underwear. each pair had rudolph or santas, etc… anyway, she told us we had to wear them, and she threatened to check later on. that was such a fun day. running around and being carefree. i miss that feeling of not having a care in the world. and the fear of being pantsed at any moment was pretty funny. oh, and she never checked. :)

Keep reading for more fun giveaways to come!
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If it’s better to give than receive, we must be excellent! We’ve got a fantastic one-day only giveaway for our readers!

THE GIVEAWAY
To celebrate the holidays, Ghirardelli wants to give one lucky Candy Addict reader a Ghirardelli Peppermint Bark Party Pack! To enter, post a comment below sharing your favorite Ghirardelli flavor and tell us about your favorite winter holiday tradition by midnight EST December 13, 2010. We’ll choose our favorite entry from all valid entries and you get the goods. Simple, eh? (Psst… we’re always interested in new ideas, so unique traditions will catch our attention. And, well, if your favorite flavor happens to be my own, you’re gonna get noticed, too!)

Be sure and use your real email address when you post a comment (it will not be shown on the site) and make sure emails from candyaddict.com don’t get labeled as SPAM. You can’t win if you can’t receive the winning email!

Offer open to U.S. residents only and prize must be shipped to a U.S. address. Limit one entry per person. Entries accepted until midnight EST, December 13, 2010. Winners must be 18 years or older to win. Void where prohibited by law. If the winner does not reply by email within 24 hours when we send the winning email, the prize will be forfeit and another winner will be chosen.

• Ghirardelli website

I love Tootsie rolls. Absolutely love them. I also like Tootsie Pops, but have pretty much always considered them a hassle because I have to wait so long to get to the delicious Tootsie Roll. Despite all the trouble, I’ve never passed one up. So, when some angel at work brought in a ginormous box of them, I was freakin’ thrilled. Free Tootsie Pops at work? Can this place get any better? Incidentally, yes, because when that box was gone, miraculously, another appeared.

Back to the point of the story – the folks at Tootsie Roll are having a “How Many Licks” to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop sweepstakes. Enter to win $50,000 or free candy – I did! I’m not gonna tell you what my guess was because I don’t want to influence your guess, but I suggest you do a little experimenting yourself. I was less than successful and stopped at about 142 licks – how many can you do?

• Enter the sweepstakes
• Tootsie Roll website

I love everything about Ritter Sport chocolate. I love that it’s a family-owned business since 1912. I love the cheerful colors of the wrappings. I love the squareness of the bars. I love that there are so many unique flavors – Butter Biscuit, Yogurt, Milk Chocolate with Strawberry Creme – and regular Dark and Milk chocolate, too. Most of all, I seriously love the taste of this chocolate. It’s all incredibly good! I’m talking, “I want to try every variety ever made and will hunt for them across the globe”, obsessively good.

Now I know what I was missing when I walked right by those funny-named, uniquely-squared, chocolate bars. I think the name Ritter Sport threw me off; what did “sport” have to do with chocolate? Well, back in 1932, Mrs Ritter conjured up the idea that their chocolate bars should fit perfectly in a sport jacket, be the same weight as rectangular chocolate bars, and not break. Voila – the square Ritter Sport bar! The coolest and unexpected thing about these bars is the Snap Open Pack – totally unlike anything else I’ve ever seen in a chocolate bar.

The quality of this chocolate blew my mind! Every flavor was fantastic! I don’t even like hazelnuts, but I actually happily ate some of the Whole Hazelnut Milk and Dark Chocolate bars. Even the nuts were perfect – whole, fresh, and plentiful. Ridiculously good. Dangerously good. WOW! My favorites are the Milk Chocolate with Strawberry Creme (to die for), Milk Chocolate with Butter Biscuit (a butter cookie hidden in chocolate? Brilliant!), and the super smooth Alpine Milk Chocolate (this stuff’s going on my special occasion list for eternity).

For a limited time, you can enter for a chance to get some free chocolate, too! Send a Halloween e-card to trick your friends and possibly win a treat from Ritter Sport! Each day from October 18 to November 6, 2010 a box of Ritter Sport Minis will be raffled off. Get entered in to win! The e-card are pretty cool, too! If you don’t win, I’m telling you… you REALLY want to try Ritter Sport! There’s a flavor for everyone!

• Ritter Sport US
• Trick your Friends – enter a raffle to win!

Candy Addict received this product as a sample from the manufacturer. No payment was received for this review and all opinions represent an unbiased view of the product.

Now that the contest has ended, Tic Tac would like to offer our Canadian Candy Addict readers a chance to wear the Small Fun Revolution. The first 50 Canadian Candy Addict readers to email tictac@noisedigital.com before August 15, 2010 with:

1. The name of the winning video
2. Preferred t-shirt design (“Tic Tac Guy” or “I Heart Small Fun”)
3. Preferred t-shirt size (Sizes are S, M, L or XL)
4. Their Canadian mailing address

will receive a free Tic Tac t-shirt! (how cool is that?!?!?) What are you waiting for? Send that email! (If you don’t have a Canadian mailing address, you cannot get the free tee)

How far would you go to defend your BUTTERFINGER®?

Butterfinger has partnered with the G4 TV network to announce a search for the 4th member of the Butterfinger Defense League (BFDL). Two lucky semi-finalists will meet current members of the BFDL — Erik Estrada (CHIPS), Lou Ferrigno (The Incredible Hulk) and Charisma Carpenter (Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel) — and G4’s Attack of the Show! hosts Olivia Munn and Kevin Pereira at Comic-Con in July when G4 broadcasts the announcement of the winner live.

THE GIVEAWAY
Butterfinger is looking for those who best demonstrate an ability to ensure the Butterfinger tagline “Nobody’s Gonna Lay A Finger On My Butterfinger!” Audition videos must show a unique ability that would make the candidate a great defender of Butterfinger and thus a perfect fit for the BFDL. Two finalists will win a VIP trip to Comic-Con in San Diego where one will be named honorary member of the BFDL and receive the $20,000 grand prize.

Entries are being accepted through June 24 at G4tv.com.

• ButterfingerDefenseLeague.com.

Did you know that every time you buy Hershey’s part of the proceeds go to support the Milton Hershey School? The school began 100 years ago as a dream and vision shared by Milton Hershey and his wife Kitty. Unable to have children of their own, they took their wealth and created a home and school for orphaned boys in 1909. After his wife died, Milton Hershey gave his entire fortune to the School. Mr. Hershey has been quoted as having said, “The School was Kitty’s idea. If we had helped a hundred children it would have all been worthwhile.” One hundred years later, Milton and Kitty Hershey’s legacy lives on and has educated thousands of students. You can read more about Milton and Kitty’s story and the school at www.thehersheylegacy.com.

THE GIVEAWAY
To celebrate 100 years of giving, Hershey’s wants to give two lucky Candy Addict readers a gift basket like you see above full of things like Kisses, Twizzlers, Whoppers, Reese’s, and much, much more. To enter, post a comment below sharing your own story of uncommon love in general, a story about favorite Hershey’s candies from childhood or adulthood, or a story about how a (your?) child loves Hershey’s candy. We will pick our favorite as one winner and the other we will choose randomly from all valid entries.

Be sure and use your REAL email address (it will not be shown on the site) when you post a comment and make sure you do not auto-mark na email from candyaddict.com as SPAM. You can’t win if you can’t receive the winning email!

Offer open to U.S. residents only and prize must be shipped to a U.S. address. Limit one entry per person. Entries accepted until midnight EST, May 14, 2010. Winners must be 18 years or older to win. Void where prohibited by law. If the winner does not reply by email within 48 hours when we send the winning email, the prize will be forfeit and another winner will be chosen.

• http://www.thehersheylegacy.com/

Tic Tac Canada has launched their “Small Fun Revolution” campaign. They are encouraging Canadian Tic Tac candy fans to submit their own small fun creation for a chance at 24 hours of small fun with $5000!

How to Enter:
Create a video or photo of something made out of Tic Tacs or Tic Tac boxes and submit it at tictacsmallfun.ca for a chance to win the grand prize, 24 hours of small fun with $5000. Creations will be judged on originality, creativity, and of course, overall fun-ness. Also, the first 1000 entries get a free t-shirt from Tic Tac. For more information, visit tictacsmallfun.ca.

They have already seen Tic Tac artwork, buildings and contraptions – the possibilities for creativity are endless!

Check out this awesome video that was entered… Tic Tac Micha:

And, for everyone that owns an iPhone – you can download two different FREE Tic Tac games for the iPhone and if you finish all the levels (and live in Canada) you can win a free t-shirt! (non-Canadians just get to play some free, fun iPhone games.

• Small Fun Revolution