Bruce’s Candy Kitchen

Friendly staff! Fun things to look at. You can watch and talk to the taffy makers too while enjoying a free sample!

It’s the Honeydukes of the Oregon Coast! Come in and prepare your body for a sugar overload. You cannot breathe without taking on a few 100 calories. Filled with wide eyed adults and kids, both excited at the sight of their fave treats. Each visit I’ve always encountered crowds and lines. But all for very good reasons, here are a few of the things you can expect to find:
* Saltwater taffy, I’m not a taffy fan, but I will eat Bruce’s. They make it in front of you… it’s a kiddo highlight to see how candy is born. Some of our fave flavors include root beer, peanut butter, watermelon, strawberry, and banana.
* Chocolate covered «fill in the blank»…there’s covered nuts, raisins, gummy bears, etc. If chocolate is good on it they’ll have it
* Homemade fudge and truffles
* Caramel Apples… with all the extra fixins like nuts, peanut butter, chocolate, etc
* Color coded candies to match local OR & WA College teams… even specialty football team pasta
* Caramel and candied popcorn… there’s even a Skittles popcorn for all you Seahawks fans
* Seasonal treats… we’ve seen displays like Easter and Halloween, always fun and creative holiday ideas
* Jelly Belly fans… look no more
* This is the place where you have good odds of finding your childhood flashback treats… like astro pops!
Give yourself a calorie free weekend, channel your inner child, avoid the dentist, make like sugar bandits, and just indulge yourself!

Typical candy store. Taffy made daily and you can see it as it is fed into the machine while it cuts, wraps, and spits it out. Local ice cream.

Amazing place. We were in search of licorice pipes for my boyfriends mother at the end of our beach trip and we found them right by the register, instantly checked out and we were out! So adorable and lots of great selections!

We love visiting candy stores on the Oregon Coast… it has a feeling of nostalgia. This candy store certainly fits the bill… with its pink and white striped exterior and the buckets of homemade salt water taffy, it completely takes you back to being a kid.
They have a wonderful selection of candies, taffy and chocolates. Their taffy is really great… some pulled and some unpulled. The staff was very friendly and helpful.
This candy store is a great way to take you back to your childhood.

Bruce’s Candy Kitchen has the best candy… the Salt Water Taffy is the best I have ever had. I love their chocolate. The place if full of candy and fun things to look at. I even love the smell of Bruce’s Candy Kitchen. I grew up going there. I highly recommend a visit when you visit Cannon Beach. I feel less if I don’t stop there when I am in town.

No visit to Cannon Beach is complete without a stop to Bruce’s Candy Kitchen, with its happy pink stripes and the guy making salt water taffy while you watch through the window. Yes, they have taffy, and lots of it, but they have everything else too, including lots of old-​fashioned favorites (sour balls), hard to find items like winegums, and wonderful homemade sea foam, caramels, chocolate bark. The quality is consistently good, as are the prices. The best part is the staff, who are just so helpful and friendly, every time we’ve ever stopped in.

Bruce’s feels a little bit like you’ve stepped into Willy Wonka’s little sister’s factory. Adorned in pink and white overhang from the outside, and exploding with color and candy on the inside, it’s definitely a feast on the eyes as much as it is on your taste buds. The space is small, and they fit in a lot so on busy days it can get pretty crowded.
I came here originally in search of saltwater taffy — isn’t cannon beach a good spot to find this stuff? But I was surprised at the smaller selection. They don’t say that they specialize in the stuff, but they do seem to focus on it a bit, making it there on site. I came in and loaded up on taffy to bring back to my coworkers in addition to pigging out on it myself.
The taffy is just so-​so. I’ve had better here in WA, Leavenworth specifically, where they have one store that is dedicated to it (taffy leavenworth) and another that has a HUGE selection and is the best around (the alps candy store).
But if taffy isn’t what you’re looking for, there are plenty of other things here to tickle your sweet tooth. One corner is dedicated to chocolates, and various other kinds of candy are littered without. You can even get some popcorn while you’re here.
The staff is very friendly, and the prices are reasonable. Despite what it lacks in taffy, it’s still worth a stop while you’re at the shops in Cannon Beach.

This 5 star rating is for several reasons. The first and foremost reason is the on site made Salt Water Taffy. Hands down the best I have ever tasted. I love they have a bucket for free samples that comes right off the machine. This is melt in your mouth taffy. The Flavors are excellent and the selection is so good. They have a few unique ones too. The building is striped with pink and white and it just makes you feel happy about candy! They have other candies and chocolates too. Cannon Beach is our favorite place to go. This is spendy to some degree, but you are in a hot spot on the Oregon coast, everything costs more. Oh, and don’t forget to pick up some Milk Chocolate Sea foam as well. Love it!
So you know, this place is hopping busy from open til close and you will need to get in there and be seen to get checked out. I don’t find this poor customer service at all because people come out of nowhere and it’s the adults that are pushy, not the kids. I have seen people that seem to think they are more important than you, so move over or get ran over. This has happened every time we have visited here. By all means, get your stuff and go because I love being in the candy store and it smells so good in there, I don’t mind the wait most of the time.
Lastly, don’t forget to grab another free piece of taffy on the way out! It’s most likely a different flavor from when you went in.

Cool shop near the end of the Hustle and bustle of cannon beach tourist area. They’ve got all your candy options from jelly belly to taffy to fudge and fancy truffles. Reasonable prices. Just look for the pink and white awning.

So many choices of candy. I love the popcorn and chocolate salt water taffy. The employees are very friendly and helpful. I would say take your time looking through the candy because there’s some tasteful gems to be found.

I have gone to this candy store since I was a child. I’m nearly 60 now. My husband and I went there last week and bought a lot of candy. Got all the way back home to Oregon city and wasn’t too fond of a few of the candies I bought and some were a bit stale and tasted odd. I decided to write the company first rather then do a Unilocal review! I’m glad I did! They got back to me within two days and not only refunded me in the mail within a couple days the amount I paid for the candy I disliked but also gave me an additional coupon for my next visit with no expiration which is good because I rarely get down to the Oregon coast anymore. Now that’s a great business!
The candy store is pleasing to the eye the moment you walk through the door, and the smells delight your senses with intoxicating sweetness! Their saltwater taffy is the best as is some of their chocolates! I can’t imagine a person not leaving the store with a bag of candy because it would be hard to not be able to find something you would love including the good old classics from back in the 1950s and 60s!

This candy store rocks! The caramel corn is super delicious! The taffy has a whole bunch of flavours to choose from and they have lots of chocolate truffles, candied apples, gifts, water bottles and toys. It’s a very fun addition to anyone’s trip to Cannon Beach!

Do not miss!
The best salt water taffy I have ever tasted!
The store is like a Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory in extreme miniature. Every bit as much fun and delight as a toy store, but you can eat the goods.
We had their Rocky Road Chocolate Covered Marshmallows and I wish we’d bought much, much more of it. Also tried their Almond Toffee and their divinity (SO good). It was HARD to leave this place.
Check out all the novelty items, too… we left with some Army men gummis.
Joyful service.

I’m not a fan of saltwater taffy but this was first time I ever had chocolate covered sea foam– AMAZING!

Real talk: Bruce’s Candy Kitchen either sounds like a) the most delicious, magical coastal find you’ll make all weekend, or b) the thing you’re perennially warned a stranger will promise is in the back of his creepy, windowless van. Luckily, it’s the former. So while I’m never one to advocate taking candy from a stranger, buying candy from Bruce is a-​ok.
A-​ok, that is, if you can handle hoards of kids (and adults) justifiably jacked up on such sugar-​high anticipation that you’ll tangibly feel shockwaves pulsating through the entire store.
Why justifiably, you ask? Because everyone will be happy here — you name it, Bruce has it. Carmel apples, saltwater taffy, rock candy, those perplexing wax juice-​filled bottles, jelly beans, anything and everything gummy and/​or chocolate-​dipped, licorice, brittles, corns, caramels, sours, hard candies, jawbreakers, candy blocks, candy pebbles, candy seashells, mints, and a case of chocolate everything that I am still drooling over.
Try to make it out of here with less than a pound of candy and all of your teeth, and I’ll be impressed!

This is a yearly stop for me! The saltwater taffy is the best and they have some cute and unique gift items.
Service was not good, the girl who waited on me seemed like she didn’t want to be there and I don’t blame her. I’m not taking off stars for service because I have worked with the public and it is draining and not fun and I can’t even imagine dealing with tourists all day.
Anyway, this place is just awesome! :)

Saw this place on Unilocal,read the reviews, and knew I had to stop. However, I had no idea just how amazing this place would be! There is a huge selection of gummies in various shapes (fighter jets, army men, scrambled eggs, toy blocks, etc), malt balls in many flavors, chocolates (which were just «Meh»), salt water taffy, caramel and cheese corn, homemade licorice, caramel apples (thoroughly enjoyed my butterfinger caramel apple), and fun cards/​gifts. They also have a small sugar-​free section for diabetics and low carb folks.
If you’re planning to buy Jelly Bellies or Taffy, The Picnic Basket has a much larger selection. Overall, this is a must stop! So much fun!

I was on a mission for sea foam. There is probably not a bigger (or more fantatical) sea foam fan on the West Coast than moi!
Now, I did not start out knowing I was a sea foam fan. In fact, I didn’t start out knowing what sea foam was.
Technically, in high school, I started on Violet Crumbles. I worked at a store that sold the heavenly aussie Violet Crumble bar, and I quickly and quietly became addicted.
Chocolate on the outside. Crumbly honeycomb toffee on the inside. Heaven.
Several years passed and I found myself living in San Francisco, where I discovered that Violet Crumble had changed her name to honeycomb and was hiding out in gourmet candy stores. Trying to elude me apparently. No such luck! I found myself a steady supply, post haste.
Flash forward to living in Seattle, where I managed to score some honeycomb, only to find out that in the PNW, this glorious stuff is called sea foam. Can I get a WHAT? Yes, that’s right, my Violet Crumble disguised as honeycomb is now hanging out under the pseudonym of sea foam, and tasting just as addictive. Even better, you can buy the whole thing covered in dark chocolate, or milk chocolate, or (get this) at Bruce’s you can buy just the crumbly honeycomb toffee center ON ITS OWN! Shudder. Why didn’t someone think of this sooner?!?
Well, try as you might Violet Crumble, you can’t hide from me. You can change your name, you can try to «dissapear» into the Pacific Northwest, but I will stalk you all the way to your home at Bruce’s Candy Kitchen in Cannon Beach Oregon. You will not escape me!!!

Love the variety of candy and novelty items at Bruce’s.
There’s lunch boxes with Sesame Street characters, Star Wars mugs, T-​shirts and just about every candy I’ve ever eaten during my childhood. One of my favorite type of candies of all time is salt water taffy and oh my, there were a lot of flavors! Mango, strawberry, green apple, root beer, liquorice, chocolate peanut butter and etc. You know the taffy were fresh because you can watch them being made on the other side of the shop.