Liquorice Sweets

What are Liquorice Sweets?

Liquorice sweets are chewy confectionery flavoured with liquorice root extract, giving them a bold, slightly bitter, and distinctly earthy taste. Brands like Haribo, Barratt, and Kingsway produce them in formats including liquorice wheels, allsorts, laces, and catherine wheels.

Liquorice sweets have been a British retro sweet shop fixture since the 70s, 80s, and 90s, when liquorice laces and allsorts sat alongside penny sweets in every corner shop jar. Those same classic retro sweets remain some of the most recognised and consistently bought confectionery in the UK today.