Candy Candy is sweet treat food item ( using the term ' food ' loosely , although in WoW , unlike real life , candy is good for you . ) Candy is odd because it is not one of the six main types of food in WoW , but there are quite a few examples of candy and it is available from vendors . Candy is most often encountered at holiday event s . Presumably , since candy is not one of the food types that are referenced as being able to be eaten by hunter pet s , hunter s cannot feed candy to their pets . Like other kinds of food , not all candy is " food " ( provides health recovery over time ) . Some are consumable s with an instant effect , some are cosmetic , and some are quest item s . In WoW , candy is defined by real world analogy and flavor text , who vends it , and the holiday contexts where it is used . It seems that WoW uses a broader definition of sweets than just candy , so ice cream cones are candy in WoW . Uses . Some candy items are quest objects . Food candy . is available all year round from at the Mirage Raceway in Thousand Needles , and from and in Nagrand for . During Love is in the Air , you may receive : During Children ' s Week , in Stormwind City and in Orgrimmar vend candy . During Hallow ' s End , in Ironforge and in Orgrimmar vend candy . During Hallow ' s End , candy may be looted from given out by innkeeper s in Azeroth and Outland . In 2009 , a two day event , Day of the Dead was added . This has one candy item , , which can be purchased from , the Day of the Dead vendor , found in graveyards near the eight faction cities , Shattrath , and Dalaran . The Skull Candies only last during the event , then disappear . During Feast of Winter Veil , the Smokywood Pastures vendors in major cities vend candy canes , candy recipes , and other non - candy items . During Feast of Winter Veil , you may receive candy as loot from a gift . During Noblegarden , you can find and loot Brightly Colored Egg s . Most of these will contain one of : Buffing candy . Some candy is not food ( no health recovery over time ) but is a buff ing consumable like an elixir . During Hallow ' s End , in Dun Morogh and in Orgrimmar vend a non - food candy item . They will only sell these to you if you complete or . During Hallow ' s End , is also a quest reward from the following quests : During Hallow ' s End , if you defeat the , small pumpkin ' meteors ' fall from the sky , landing on the party members . Each of these contains a small random number of : During Hallow ' s End , each Inn has a candy bucket on the floor that can be looted once per character for a . Looting the candy bucket at each inn is a separate quest . The contains 0 , 1 , or 2 of each of the following : Cosmetic candy . Some candy is just cosmetic ; you see a message when you ' eat ' it . During Love is in the Air , you may receive : Quest item candy . Quest item s are items that are " only " quest objects . Quest items that look like food are not food , but food items can be quest objects . Some candy is a quest item , and is not ingestible candy . During Hallow ' s End , the quest objects of and look like candy and are talked about as if they were candy . They cannot be eaten . Seasonal events . The candy schedule :