Candy Canes!

I desperately wanted to make peppermint bark today, but alas, cannot find candy canes anywhere!  Anybody know where I can buy a pack of either candy canes, or those little round mints with the red lines on them?

I've only seen them in the Whittard tea shop, where they sell 1 with a mug or something...So I know they exist, but WHERE?!


Edited to add:  I have seen them advertised online at Tesco, Poundland, and Tiger, and will continue to look, but I can't actually find them in-store anywhere (Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's Poundland, Tiger, RobertDyas, TK Maxx...)

Sorry I can't help with finding them, but do be careful with the red striped candy canes.  They're not necessarily peppermint!  In fact, I don't think I've ever seen peppermint candy canes here.  Once I thought I had one, but it turned out to be strawberry 

I saw candy canes in Poundland about a week ago. I assumed they were peppermint, but after what Historyenne said, I can't be certain.

They can be found, but you have to look around a bunch.  I bought a bunch last year and also made peppermint bark.

I bought these for our work xmas tree, definitely peppermint, great for stirring into hot chocolate!

http://www.johnlewis.com/231608191/Product.aspx

Cant remember if it was Aldi or Lidl, but I saw peppermint and 'tropical fruit' candy canes.

... but WTH is 'peppermint bark'??
Is there anything else with peppermint flavour you could use?

I used to get them from BHS or Works, but sometimes the peppermint wasn't a true peppermint.

Thanks CB and TamaMoo, I'll try John Lewis/BHS tomorrow.  Was planning to avoid Oxford Street on the weekends this month, but I guess I'll have to make an exception

Tracey--Peppermint Bark  OR, if you want to get real fancy, you can use a silicone mold to make cute shaped peppermint bark!  (I'm a big fan of this!)

And yes, you can use other peppermint stuff, but this is festive and pretty (which is one of the main reasons I wanted to make it).  Normally you would add peppermint extract to the chocolate too, but a) I can't find that either, and b) I bought some nice dark chocolate with mint so figured that will do...

I found proper peppermint ones at Debenham's. First batch of bark made and eaten already LOL.

Oh wow... thanks for the link to the Bark... that looks lovely!
I can see why you actually do need the stripey candy now, rather than just peppermint flavouring.

I'm going to the German Christmas market today, and am going to have a look for some peppermint canes...

That's odd.  I've had no problem finding peppermint oil in the regular grocery stores.

That's odd.  I've had no problem finding peppermint oil in the regular grocery stores.

Could be that the biggest shops I go to are "Metro" or "Local" versions, probably.

Ah, I see.  I go by "Extra" ones on my way to work, so I do most of my shopping there.

I got mine at the pound store. I'm going to use it to make peppermint bark too. It'll be my first time to make it, so fingers crossed it works!