Butterfields Candy: A Century of North Carolina Sweetness
Some flavors do more than taste good. They take you somewhere.
A peach candy can bring back a summer afternoon. Muscadine can taste like vines along a Carolina roadside. Cherry can remind you of the candy jar at someone’s house—the one you knew you were allowed to reach into.
Butterfields Candy Buds have been creating those kinds of memories since 1924.
Made in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Butterfields Buds are still crafted with pure cane sugar using the company’s original copper kettles. Each batch is poured, folded, rolled, and tossed by hand, continuing a candy-making tradition that has lasted for more than a century.
The result is a delicate hard candy with a soft, creamy center and flavors that feel unmistakably Carolina.
Peach Bud. Muscadine Bud. Cherry Bud.
Each one is small enough to hold in your hand, but carries a much bigger story: generations of candy jars, familiar flavors, and a North Carolina company still making its signature sweets the old-fashioned way.
That is exactly the kind of product we love carrying at A Bit of Carolina. It is not simply made here. It holds a piece of what “here” tastes like.
What makes Butterfields Candy distinctly North Carolina?
Butterfields has been making candy in Rocky Mount since 1924. Its Carolina-inspired flavors include peach and muscadine, and its traditional production process remains central to the brand.
The original copper kettles are still part of the process. So are the hands that pour, fold, roll, and toss each batch.
There may be easier ways to make candy now. Butterfields has kept making it the way people remember.
Butterfields Candy at A Bit of Carolina
Butterfields Candy Buds make an easy addition to a North Carolina gift box, a thoughtful treat for someone who has moved away, or a sweet introduction to Carolina flavors for someone experiencing them for the first time.
They are also perfectly good eaten one after another from a candy jar.
Some traditions do not need reinventing. They just need to keep disappearing.
