Sweet Sweet Canyon

Not to be confused with Sweet Sweet Galaxy or Sweet Sweet Kingdom.

Sweet Sweet Canyon
Information
Appears in	Mario Kart 8 (2014) Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (2017)
Cup(s)	Mushroom Cup
Online play	Available (Wii U, Switch)
Music sample Shiho Fujii Frontrunning
Course map Mario Kart 8 / Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Staff ghost(s) 8 Nin★Fausti 2:12.107 8DX 150cc Nin★Fausti 2:07.205 8DX 200cc Nin★Alice 1:40.972

Sweet Sweet Canyon is the third race course of the Mushroom Cup in Mario Kart 8 and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Similar to Cookie Land from Mario Kart: Double Dash!! and Tart Top from Mario Kart DS, this course takes place in a land filled with pastry confections and desserts, including cakes, cookies, ice creams, candies, donuts, macarons, and chocolates. Gingerbread Toads can be seen cheering at the start/finish line, and waffle-cone windmills with blades made out of different-colored wafer cookies appear in the background. There are twenty-five Coins located on this track. This course can be seen on some of the posters for Galaxy Air.

Course layout

The course starts out in a place where gingerbread cookie characters are watching, while Yoshis are situated on the other side, cheering for racers. The track then enters a cave made out of cookies, followed by a glider cannon that launches the racers onto a cake tower with a soda waterfall. Here, there are traffic cones made out of ice cream cones on a large right turn, and racers then drive inside orange soda. As the soda section ends, racers can either choose a blue path or a pink path, both of which are anti-gravity routes that spiral around each other. After the anti-gravity paths meet up again, drivers encounter a number of pink Piranha Plants, hiding inside green Pipes. After a few turns, players hit a drop-off before reaching the start-finish line.

Shortcuts

• Just before the tunnel at the start of the course, there is a small section of pink frosting on the right that players can cut through using a Mushroom.
• On the blue anti-gravity route, players can fall off the track at the chocolate part, and land on the pink anti-gravity route. This shortcut is best performed with a Mushroom.
• Both of the anti-gravity paths feature a small patch of chocolate frosting where players can use a Mushroom to cut a corner.
• If one uses a Mushroom, it is possible to drive through the chocolate donut and cut off the final turn before the start-finish line.

Sponsors

• Peach & Daisy Royal Patisserie (Cookies, cookie boxes, logos)
• Princess Orange (Bottles)

Mario Kart 8 Original Soundtrack liner note

"We wanted a cute and cuddly feel for this candy-filled world, so we wanted to use toy-like sounds along with a light and breezy violin."

Gallery

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  The course icon

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  Overview of the entrance to the glider cannon

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  Audience at the starting line

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  Toadette, driving around the course

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  Baby Mario in the underwater section

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  An anti-gravity section of the course

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  Panorama of Sweet Sweet Canyon

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  Piranha Plants are also present on the course

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  The off-road shortcut

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  A released screenshot, revealing the name of the course

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  The stamp obtained for beating the staff ghost at this course

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	スイーツキャニオン[?] Suītsu Kyanion	Sweets Canyon
Chinese (simplified)	甜点峡谷[?] Tiándiǎn Xiágǔ	Dessert Canyon
Chinese (traditional)	甜點峽谷[?] Tiándiǎn Xiágǔ	Dessert Canyon
Dutch	Zoetekauwcanyon[?]	Sweet Tooth Canyon
German	Zuckersüßer Canyon[?]	Sugar-Sweet Canyon
Italian	Dolce Dolce Canyon[?]	Sweet Sweet Canyon
Korean	스위트 캐니언[?] Seuwiteu Kaenieon	Sweet Canyon
Portuguese	Desfiladeiro Doce[?]	Sweet Canyon
Russian	Каньон сладостей[?] Kan'on sladostey	Sweets Canyon
Spanish	Barranco Goloso[?]	Sweet Tooth Gorge

Trivia

• One of the Yoshis near the starting line occasionally hums Totaka's Song. This also occurs in other courses featuring Yoshi spectators.
• This is the only Mushroom Cup course in the Mario Kart series to have a cannon.