It is released to the game along with the release of Waffle Ward, It was introduced earlier, on HTML5 only, on the 33rd episode, now named Waffle Workshop (formerly named Cherry Chateau), with the original first appearance being on level 476.
For the list of levels with this blocker, see here.
Properties[]
It's movable, but cannot be matched. It also cannot be switched with a colour bomb.
The toffee swirl is very similar to multilayered frosting (even having up to 5 layers), except it is mobile, like a multilayered liquorice swirl that doesn't block special candies' effects.
One-layered toffee swirl is one of the weakest blockers in the game.
Like liquorice swirls, toffee swirls are immune to chocolate.
A candy frog landing on a toffee swirl will remove it completely, regardless of the number of layers it has. However, if a toffee swirl is destroyed by a candy frog landing directly on top of it, then it only counts as one toffee swirl. This is particularly problematic in level 4127. However, said glitch is now fixed.
Cake bomb explosions could blow away one layer of toffee swirls.
Before the change, the explosions would blow away toffee swirls regardless of the number of layers they have, leaving some levels with toffee swirl orders unwinnable if toffee swirls did not respawn.
Types of Toffee Swirls[]
As the game progresses the toffee swirls get a little more sophisticated. When a match is made next to a toffee swirl, it changes in appearance representing the number of layers left. Here is a list of the types of the toffee swirl blocker:
Two-layered Toffee Swirl - Introduced in level 356 in the 25th episode, Fudge Islands. This toffee swirl takes two hits to destroy. It consists of a layer of chocolate on top of a one-layered toffee swirl.
Three-layered Toffee Swirl - Introduced in level 359 in the 25th episode, Fudge Islands. This toffee swirl takes three hits to destroy. It consists of milk-coloured cream on top of a two-layered toffee swirl.
Four-layered Toffee Swirl - Introduced in level 373 in the 26th episode, Pudding Pagoda. This toffee swirl takes four hits to destroy. It consists of chocolate-coloured cream on top of a three-layered toffee swirl.
Five-layered Toffee Swirl - Introduced in level 377 in the 26th episode, Pudding Pagoda. This toffee swirl takes five hits to destroy. It consists of pink-coloured cream on top of a four-layered toffee swirl.
Notable levels[]
Level 351 - First appearance of one-layered toffee swirls and toffee swirl order.
Level 373 - First appearance of four-layered toffee swirls.
Level 377 - First appearance of five-layered toffee swirls.
Level 378 - First appearance of toffee swirl cannons. They spawn one-layered toffee swirls.
Level 385 - First level with all five toffee swirl layers on the board.
Level 428 - First appearance of locked five-layered toffee swirls.
Level 454 - First appearance of toffee swirls in marmalade (specifically, five-layered toffee swirls in marmalade).
Level 457 - First appearance of locked four-layered toffee swirls.
Level 475 - First appearance of locked three-layered toffee swirls.
Level 486 - First appearance of toffee swirls in sugar chests (specifically, one-layered toffee swirls inside one-layered sugar chests). Also the first level with sugar chests overall.
Level 513 - First appearance of two-layered toffeee swirls in one- and two-layered sugar chests.
Level 516 - First appearance of two-layered toffee swirls in three- and five-layered sugar chests.
Level 529 - First appearance of three- and four-layered toffee swirls in marmalade.
Level 535 - First appearance of three-layered toffee swirls in two-, four-, and five-layered sugar chests.
Level 545 - First appearance of three-layered toffee swirls in one- and three-layered sugar chests.
Level 556 - First appearance of one-layered toffee swirls in two-, three-, four-, and five-layered sugar chests.
Level 572 - First appearance of four-layered toffee swirls in three-layered sugar chests and five-layered toffee swirls in four-layered sugar chests.
Level 594 - First appearance of locked one-layered toffee swirls.
Level 597 - First appearance of locked two-layered toffee swirls.
Level 3501 - Originally the first level with all five layers of toffee swirls.
Level 3503 - First appearance of two-layered toffee swirls in liquorice lock.
Level 3506 - First appearance of one-layered toffee swirls in sugar chests
Level 3509 - First official appearance of striped candy + toffee swirl cannons.
Level 3513 - First official appearance of ingredient + toffee swirl cannons.
Level 3515 - First appearance of five-layered toffee swirls in liquorice locks.
Level 3553 - First level with toffee swirls in marmalade, due to redesigning.
Level 3569 - First official appearance of candy bomb + toffee swirl cannons.
Level 3639 - First official appearance of wrapped candy + toffee swirl cannons.
Level 3644 - First official appearance of liquorice swirl + toffee swirl cannons.
Level 3659 - Officially the first level with toffee swirls in marmalade (two and three layers).
Level 3703 - Officially the first level with 5 layered toffee swirls in marmalade.
Level 3898 - Officially the first jelly-order mixed level with toffee swirls.
Level 3922 - First level where lucky candies can yield toffee swirls.
Level 4000 - A milestone level requiring toffee swirls as part of the order.
Level 4014 - First level with non-spawning toffee swirl order.
Level 6900 - Was the first official appearance of extra moves candy + toffee swirl cannons.
Level 7210 - Officially the first level where two-layered toffee swirls can spawn from candy cannons.
Level 7211 - Officially the first level where five-layered toffee swirls can spawn from candy cannons.
Level 7408 - Officially the first level where four-layered toffee swirls can spawn from candy cannons.
Level 7442 - Officially the first level where one-layered toffee swirls can spawn from candy cannons.
Level 7907 - First level where toffee swirl order is required to unlock order locks.
Level 8050 - First level with toffee swirls in skull pedestals.
Level 8511 - First rapids-order mixed level with toffee swirl order.
Level 9005 - First level with a different colour scheme where toffee swirls appear.
Level 10001 - First five-digit level with toffee swirls.
Level 10466 - First level with toffee swirls in candy cobra baskets.
Trivia[]
This blocker was called waffle before it was changed to toffee swirl in February 2021.
Originally, this was going to be Mini Icing that had precisely the same properties before becoming its blocker. Also, there are a couple of differences between toffee swirls and mini icing (i.e. chocolate can eat toffee swirls, but not icing).
This is the first blocker to be reskinned twice. However, the reskinning from Mini Icing to Waffle also comes with interaction changes.
This is the first movable multilayered blocker. It's also the first multilayered blocker that can be eaten by chocolate.
This is the third type of blocker which can have up to five layers, after frosting and sugar chests.
Formerly (when waffles appeared for one day so they could be tested) the three-layered waffle had a light green cream on it. After waffles were brought back (when the official tutorial for waffles was available and waffle cannons were introduced) the cream is now yellow.
In some old versions, toffee swirls could be "eaten" by chocolate.
This is the first blocker to be dispensed from cannons since candy bombs. The toffee swirl dispenser only became available once toffee swirls were given a proper tutorial, when it was called waffle at the time (on May 9th, 2018).
This is the first blocker which has been introduced on an episode much earlier than the last episode of its time before its official introduction.
Furthermore, this blocker even changed the name of Cherry Chateau to Waffle Workshop. At the time, the blocker was called "Waffles".
However, only levels 476, 480, 494, 501, 505, 519, 526, 533, 540, 548, 558 and 560 had toffee swirls until they were officially introduced.
Toffee swirls are the first blocker to be required for candy orders in its debut episode and the first element since Sugar Keys to have the associated Candy Cannon introduced in the debut episode.
Just like frosting, each layer of a toffee swirl counts towards the order.
Formerly, toffee swirls couldn't appear from lucky candies. This has changed in a recent update. Unlike frosting (only Regular Icing can appear from lucky candies in levels with frosting order), all five layers of toffee swirls can appear from lucky candies in levels with toffee swirl order.
Formerly, toffee swirls couldn't be spawned by Magic Mixers at all. From April 2019, they could only be spawned by special magic mixers (due to them being able to spawn any blocker, and toffee swirls were added to the list of blockers able to be spawned by the magic mixer). From June 2019, regular magic mixers could spawn toffee swirls, starting from the redesigned level 4755.
Toffee swirls make up the numbers 079 to 083 in the tilemap code.
One-layered toffee swirl: 079
Two-layered toffee swirl: 080
Three-layered toffee swirl: 081
Four-layered toffee swirl: 082
Five-layered toffee swirl: 083
There is a blocker in Candy Crush Soda Saga called "pancake", which behaves the same as toffee swirls in this game.
Before toffee swirls were added to Candy Crush Saga officially, blockers with similar properties (multi-layered movable blocks) have been appearing in some copycat games.
Toffee swirls have the order number "25".
Formerly, toffee swirl cannons could only spawn three-layered toffee swirls. From version 1.177, any type of toffee swirl can spawn from candy cannons; the specific type depends on the level, similar to sugar coats, with the first level being the redesigned level 572. Toffee swirl cannons can officially spawn two-layered toffee swirls and five-layered toffee swirls for the first time in level 7210 and level 7211, respectively.
Toffee swirl order is required to unlock order locks from Level 7907.
The toffee swirl is similar to Liquorice Shell in the sense that it's a blocker that reskins an old blocker but functions the exact same way as its former appearance.
Toffee swirls were redesigned slightly in July 2022. Now, toffee swirls with less than 5 layers have a brownish base, as opposed to being ring-like.