Words & TermsFood and drink
honey joy
Also: honey joys, honey crackle, honey crackles
A small sweet made by coating cornflakes with a baked mixture of butter, honey and sugar, usually set in a paper case.
In a sentence
The party table had chocolate crackles and honey joys.
Where it came from
A commercial or recipe-style compound of honey and joy. The located evidence does not establish who coined the name. A 1979 Australian newspaper describes honey joys and their ingredients; current Australian food sources treat them as a familiar children's-party sweet.
- First recorded
- August 1979
- Initial era
- 1950–1999
- Where used
- Australia; honey crackles is common in parts of South Australia and Western Australia
- Use today
- Current