Key facts
- Alternative names
- Peppermint stick
- Type
- Confectionery
- Place of origin
- Germany
- Main ingredients
- Sugar , flavoring (often peppermint )
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- hard candy
- Country of origin
- Germany
- Material used
- sugar
- Location
- United States
- Image
- Candy-Cane-Classic.jpg
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- Commons category
- Candy canes
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Encyclopedic overview
A candy cane is a cane-shaped stick candy often associated with Christmastide as well as Saint Nicholas Day. The canes are typically white with red stripes and flavoured with peppermint, but the canes also come in a variety of other flavours and colours.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “candy cane” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.