Sour Boys Candy

Time it right at Sour Boys Candy and a child in your group might get to turn the crank. The maker says its shop in Origins Market, Busselton, has a machine for cutting pillow candy, and that children can sometimes have a go at it. No times are published, so count it as luck rather than a plan.

Sour Boys is a family business, and the maker says the family lives and works in Busselton. Sour Boys says its candy is hand-made locally in Busselton, and Origins Market's own page for the business says the candy is made by hand at the stall, where customers can watch it happen.

Mat is the person behind it. The maker says he worked as a chef for many years and has a circus background; lollies came after both. It is hard to think of better training for cooking sugar in front of a crowd. The maker dates the business to 2021.

What Sour Boys makes sits at the old-fashioned end of the lolly shop. There are hard-boiled style sweets in fruit flavours, and a sour range for people who like their lollies sharp. There is pillow candy, the small cushion-shaped sweets cut from a rope of cooked sugar, and there are lollipops. There is honeycomb, which the maker says is made with real honey, and big, soft cubes of marshmallow that it says it makes by hand.

The six on this page give a fair spread. The sour candy is one for the drive home, the honeycomb is one to crush over ice cream, and the aniseed humbug is for anyone who still goes looking for one in the lolly jar.

Sour Boys Candy sells online through its own shop. To see the candy being made, call in at Origins Market on West Street, Busselton, and check the market's own site for opening times before you go.