What would this "sound" like?

Hardboiled sweets falling on a wooden floor, scattering all over. What would the sweets hitting the floor sound like? Trying to come up with words to properly describe the sound. PS: they are in a bowl which topples scattering the sweets. Thanks for any suggestions.

 

pitter-patter: can be noun or verb
or there are lots of similar onomatopoeic words like skitter and clatter and stutter - could make a coinage or mix two different ones

 

My mind immediately went to skitter.

 

Think of other hard things that fall onto hard surfaces and draw analogies.

Gravel
Shrapnel
Sleet/Ice
Marbles
Ball Bearings/Other Hardware

Which comparison you use will depend upon the context of your story/passage.

 

What kind(s) of "sweets"? To me, "sweets" could be hard candies, gummie bears, chocolate bonbons, petite fours, ... The sound each would make is quite different.

 

A swarm of excited mice wearing tiny Japanese geta sandals.

 

The OP did say hard boiled sweets, which are hard candies.

 

Thank you for clarifying that. "Hard boiled sweets" is a phrase I have never encountered in my almost 80 years on the west side of the great pond.

So the sound is going to be something akin to a rattle, in my estimation.

 

My local dialect calls the “suck sweets” or “suck”, pronounced to rhyme with book or look. Usually used within the phrase “bagga suck”.

“Ahm’a gooin’ dow-un Woolies forra bagga sook”