Level 1001

Difficulty

 * A three-layered sugar chest blocks the spawning ingredients from the candy cannon.
 * One sugar key spawns after the first move, and subsequent keys spawn as soon as the previous one is collected. A match must be made under the key dispenser in order to cause keys to spawn.
 * Five-layered icing and a five-layered sugar chest block the ingredient path.
 * 10-move candy bombs will spawn from the candy cannons.
 * Liquorice locks with swirls in the center also reduce board space. This limits the player's ability to create special candies, which are essential in bringing the ingredients down.
 * The mystery candies sandwiched in between the liquorice locks and icing can produce harmful items which hinder your progress, if you are unlucky.
 * The mystery candy contained in the sugar chest in the ingredient column requires at least one additional matches to be made, before an ingredient can exit brought down. Sometimes, the mystery candy contains a candy in marmalade, which requires yet another match before the exit is accessible.
 * The ingredients are worth 60,000 points, which is equal to the one star target score.

Strategy

 * First, collect the sugar keys as quickly as possible. Play from top where you have more candies available try to make striped candy combinations. This will help to take out blockers from the bottom at the same time, and open up more room. If possible, combine a striped candy with a colour bomb or a wrapped candy to break the blockers on the bottom row and bring down the ingredients.
 * Then focus on clearing the ingredients. Since there is a column of five-layered icing underneath the ingredient dispenser, watch for opportunities to switch your ingredients to another column with fewer blockers. This will enable you to clear some ingredients while you continue to attack that central column of icing.

Trivia

 * This level has subtle coincidences with its level number:
 * This is the 272nd ingredient level, and the fourth level to have five colours in episode 68 (note that 4 x 68 = 272).
 * Moreover, this level has 77 spaces and is in World 13 (note that 13 x 77 = 1,001).
 * This was formerly one of the hardest levels in the game.