Why Freeze Dried Sweets Are Great for Creating Your Own Sweet Challenge

Trying sweets is already enjoyable, but turning it into a competition can make things even more entertaining. With different shapes, textures and levels of crunch, freeze dried sweets are perfect for creating your own sweet challenge with friends or family.

You don’t need complicated equipment or rules. Choose a selection, hide the packaging and see who really knows their confectionery.

Can You Guess the Original Sweet?

The simplest challenge is a blind guessing game.

Choose several varieties of freeze dried candy and place them into numbered bowls without showing anyone the original packaging. Each player tries one piece and writes down what they think the sweet was before it was freeze dried.

This can be more difficult than it sounds.

Freeze drying removes moisture from confectionery, causing many soft or chewy sweets to become light and crunchy. Some can also expand considerably, changing their appearance as well as their texture.

Give one point for every correct answer and reveal the results once everyone has tried the full selection.

Create Your Own Crunch Ranking

The next challenge is completely subjective: which sweet has the best crunch?

A freeze dried gift set gives you several varieties that can be compared side by side. Give everyone a scorecard and ask them to rate each option out of ten.

You could have separate categories for crunch, appearance, texture and overall enjoyment.

Once everyone has finished, combine the scores to create your final ranking.

This is where things can become unexpectedly serious. The sweet one person immediately gives ten out of ten could end up at the bottom of somebody else’s list.

No changing scores because your favourite is losing.

Crown Your Sweet Challenge Champion

For the final round, combine everything you’ve done so far.

Award points for correctly identifying the original sweets, predicting the group’s favourite and remembering which varieties received the highest scores.

The person with the most points becomes the sweet challenge champion.

You could even give the winner their favourite freeze dried variety as a prize – assuming everyone else hasn’t already eaten it.

It’s an easy activity for parties, family gatherings or an evening with friends, and every challenge can be different depending on the sweets you choose.

Just remember to keep the original packaging hidden until the end.

There are few things less impressive than correctly identifying every mystery sweet while quietly reading the answers from the bag.