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    "title": "What is a sweet cart?",
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    "modified": "2026-09-26T01:58:54+01:00",
    "excerpt": "A sweet cart is a decorated cart or stand of sweets in jars, where guests at weddings and parties scoop their own. What hire includes and costs.",
    "content_text": "A sweet cart is a decorated cart or stand, filled with jars of sweets, that guests help themselves from at a wedding, party or other event. It is also called a candy cart or a sweet trolley. Guests scoop the sweets they want into paper bags.\nWhat hire usually includes\nSweet carts can be hired from event companies. Looking at the services listed on the hire marketplace Poptop in 2026, packages typically include:\nthe decorated cart or stand itselfglass jars and containersa selection of sweets, in quantities that vary by packagescoops and serving utensilspaper bags for guestsdecorations such as flowers, fairy lights and garlandsset up and collection, and for some packages an attendant\nWhat it costs\nPrices depend on the number of guests and the sweets chosen. In 2026 Poptop gave the average price for a sweets and candy cart as about £4 per guest. The services it listed ranged from about £100 to £995 per event, and per person options from about £2 to £16. Some hire companies advertise wedding sweet carts from about £100.\nDoing it yourself\nYou can also fill your own jars. Pick and mix is sold by weight, so you can buy exactly the mix you want: see why is pick and mix sold by weight? For help with quantities, see how much pick and mix do you need per person? We sell every sweet by the 100 g.\nAllergies and safety\nAllergen information. Food businesses must give allergen information for any loose item they sell that contains one of the 14 main allergens, such as milk, eggs, nuts, peanuts, soya or cereals containing gluten. It can be given verbally or in writing. If you run a cart yourself, labelling each jar helps guests with allergies: see which sweets contain nuts? and what does may contain mean on sweets?Diet choices. Some jelly sweets contain gelatine, which matters to vegetarian, vegan, halal and kosher guests: see what sweets are gelatine free?Younger children. The NHS advises not to give younger children hard foods, such as boiled sweets or whole nuts, because of the risk of choking. It is worth keeping boiled sweets out of reach of little ones at a family party.",
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