D&D 5E Ideas for magical candies that emulate potions from the DMG?

Between Halloween and me remembering there was a store in Planescape: Torment that sold candies that functioned as potions. And thinking more on the idea that there's some Artificer/Wizard/Druid/whatever that's like Willy Wonka who has a store in Sigil or some other planar metropolis, what sort of candies would they sell?

So there's candies that function like Potions of Healing or Potions of Invisibility, well any ideas of what kinds of candy they are? What would they taste and look like?

I think there'd certainly be some exotic flavours, or just plain weird ones, something like the equivalent of a Chocolate Covered Habanero or jelly candy that's slowing shifting around.

And I guess that's not counting that they might have cheaper candies sold in packages that have the equivalent effect to some spell like Prestidigitation.
 

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My current campaign has a gnome named Aenis Feysputter who sells magical candies and such. (He also sells normal candies to children for a copper piece, so he's known as "the copper penny candy man" - which is ironic, as he's really a copper dragon in gnome form.) But for magical effects that are instantaneous, they're made in candy form (eat it and the effect takes place), whereas for spells of longer duration (like mage armor), he makes them in gum form (the effect continues as long as you keep chewing, but it wears off at the end of the spell's duration).

Johnathan
 

Borrow the extra-fizzy lemonade from Willy Wonka for levitate. Drinking half the bottle activates it and sends you into the air, then you have to burp to descend and swig more to go up.

A more extreme variant of the same recipe, this one based on cherryade, does gaseous form. The logo on the bottle is a cherry bomb, and when you drink it down you literally explode into mist. It works like the spell, except that creatures can smell cherries when you waft near to them.
 

Salt water taffy (laughy taffy) that acts like both a potion of watchful rest AND a spell scroll of hideous laughter targeting the drinker.
 


The Harry Potter series also has a few magical candies that might be relevant. The Ton-Tongue toffee might put silence on the person who eats it.
 

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