Alabama's Favorite Chocolate Candy

Alabama Craves Which Chocolate Candy the Most?

While not an officially recognized holiday that comes with a day off from work or school, Halloween is wildly popular in the United States. The last day of October is set aside for costumes, haunted houses, spooky decorations, pumpkins and perhaps most important of all, candy.

Coincidentally, three days before Halloween, Oct. 28, the country also recognizes National Chocolate Day, making the end of October a dream for chocolate enthusiasts.

With the 28th and then the 31st of the month rapidly approaching, BetAlabama.com – your source for Alabama sports betting - wanted to see which chocolate candies are the most popular in the state and in the country. We did so by using Statista’s research on the most consumed chocolate candy as a starting point. From there, we used Google Trends to search the level of interest in each chocolate candy from Oct. 1, 2022 to Oct. 18, 2023. We then determined the top three chocolate candies in each state and came up with the following results.

Favorite Chocolate Candies by State

State	Winner	Second	Third
Alabama	Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups	Kit Kat	Snickers
Alaska	Snickers	M&M’s	Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
Arizona	Kit Kat	Snickers	Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
Arkansas	Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups	Snickers	M&M’s
California	Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups	Kit Kat	Milky Way
Colorado	M&M’s	Kit Kat	Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
Connecticut	Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups	M&M’s	Twix
Delaware	Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups	Milky Way	Snickers
Florida	Milky Way	Kit Kat	Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
Georgia	Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups	Twix	Kit Kat
Hawaii	M&M’s	Twix	Snickers
Idaho	Snickers	Kit Kat	Twix
Illinois	Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups	Milky Way	Snickers
Indiana	Snickers	Milky Way	Butterfinger
Iowa	Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups	Kit Kat	Snickers
Kansas	Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups	M&M’s	Kit Kat
Kentucky	Butterfinger	Kit Kat	Twix
Louisiana	Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups	M&M’s	Hershey’s Milk Chocolate
Maine	Kit Kat	Twix	M&M’s
Maryland	Milky Way	Snickers	Butterfinger
Massachusetts	Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups	Snickers	M&M’s
Michigan	Kit Kat	Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups	Twix
Minnesota	Kit Kat	Butterfinger	Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
Mississippi	Kit Kat	M&M’s	Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
Missouri	Milky Way	Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups	Kit Kat
Montana	Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups	Twix	Hershey’s Milk Chocolate
Nebraska	Milky Way	Twix	Snickers
Nevada	Kit Kat	Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups	Twix
New Hampshire	M&M’s	Snickers	Butterfinger
New Jersey	Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups	Milky Way	Snickers
New Mexico	Kit Kat	Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups	M&M’s
New York	Kit Kat	Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups	Twix
North Carolina	Snickers	M&M’s	Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
North Dakota	Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups	Hershey’s Milk Chocolate	Kit Kat
Ohio	M&M’s	Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups	Milky Way
Oklahoma	Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups	Twix	Kit Kat
Oregon	Twix	Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups	Butterfinger
Pennsylvania	Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups	Milky Way	Twix
Rhode Island	Snickers	Twix	Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
South Carolina	Kit Kat	M&M’s	Hershey’s Milk Chocolate
South Dakota	Kit Kat	Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups	Snickers
Tennessee	Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups	Kit Kat	Twix
Texas	Snickers	M&M’s	Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
Utah	Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups	Milky Way	Twix
Vermont	Kit Kat	Twix	M&M’s
Virginia	Twix	Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups	M&M’s
Washington	Kit Kat	Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups	Butterfinger
West Virginia	Snickers	Kit Kat	Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
Wisconsin	Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups	Twix	Butterfinger
Wyoming	M&M’s	Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups	Hershey’s Milk Chocolate

The Chocolate Choices in Alabama

Alabama’s top three candies, in order, are Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Kit Kat and Snickers. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups ranked as the top chocolate in 19 total states, trailed by Kit Kat (12).

Not surprisingly, Reese’s are the top-selling candy brand worldwide, generating more than r 2 billion in sales annually with Alabama doing its part to support them. Thousands of Alabama trick-or-treaters no doubt will be hoping to come home with several Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups to enjoy this year. Reese’s is part of the Hershey family of chocolates.

Kit Kat bars are produced by Nestle and are a staple of their aptly named Nestle’s Favorites candy box that is sold in high quantities this time of year. It also includes Smarties, Aero bars and Coffee Crisp. The standard Kit Kat comes with four “fingers” that can be snapped off and enjoyed individually, but many Alabama trick-or-treaters will come home with smaller sized two-finger varieties as part of their Halloween haul.

Coming in third for Alabama is Snickers, a nougat bar topped with caramel and peanuts and encased in chocolate and distributed by Mars, Inc. With more than $3 billion in worldwide sales annually, it is safe to say that Snickers is not exclusive to Alabama when it comes to its popularity.

It’s a great time of year for candy lovers, and in the state of Alabama it is clear which candy bars trick-or-treaters are hoping for the most. Keep an eye on BetAlabama.com for updates on possible sports betting legislation as well as Alabama sports betting promo codes.

Author

Cecil Peters

@CecPetes

Cecil Peters is a Senior Betting Analyst for BetAlabama.com. A professional sports bettor in Canada, Cecil specializes in analyzing the latest odds impacting professional sports teams, with a focus on golf, the NFL and NHL.