Sugar Babies are an American confection

Confectionery

Confectionery is the set of food items that are rich in sugar, any one or type of which is called a confection. Modern usage may include substances rich in artificial sweeteners as well...

 originally developed in 1935 by the James O. Welch Co.

James O. Welch Co.

James O. Welch Company was an American confectionery manufacturer. James O. Welch founded the company that bore his name in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1927. The company introduced many enduring brands, including Junior Mints, Sugar Daddys, and Sugar Babies. Other candies they produced were...

 Sugar Babies were named after a song called "Let Me Be Your Sugar Baby."

The company was purchased by the National Biscuit Company (Nabisco

Nabisco

Nabisco is an American brand of cookies and snacks. Headquartered in East Hanover, New Jersey, the company is a subsidiary of Illinois-based Kraft Foods. Nabisco's plant in Chicago, a production facility at 7300 S...

, now Kraft Foods) in 1963. The candies originally had a slight amount of bacon extract inside, which led to the addition of the red and white bacon design on the packaging. The extract was removed when the Welch brands were sold to Warner-Lambert in 1988; Tootsie Roll Industries

Tootsie Roll Industries

Tootsie Roll Industries is a manufacturer of confectionery in the United States. Its best-known products have been Tootsie Rolls and Tootsie Pops....

 acquired them in 1993. They are bite-sized, pan-coated, chewy milk caramel

Caramel

Caramel is a beige to dark-brown confection made by heating any of a variety of sugars. It is used as a flavoring in puddings and desserts, as a filling in bonbons, and as a topping for ice cream, custard and coffee....

 sweets, and are based on the company's original caramel lollipop

Lollipop

A lollipop, pop, lolly, sucker, or sticky-pop is a type of confectionery consisting mainly of hardened, flavored sucrose with corn syrup mounted on a stick and intended for sucking or licking. They are available in many flavors and shapes.- Types :Lollipops are available in a number of colors and...

 named Sugar Daddy

Sugar Daddy (candy)

Sugar Daddy is a candy bar on a stick manufactured by Tootsie Roll Industries. A bite-sized candy based on the Sugar Daddy is marketed under the name Sugar Babies....

. Tootsie Roll Industries now makes Sugar Babies.