There isn't finishing option for this quest with the candy lady.

Yep... Just posted it in another thread.

This is confirmed. I tried this quest and I the old woman does not respond as a quest giver recipient.

Additionally TWO blank error filled journal entries appear in addition to the main one for this quest.

Those blank journal entries are not from the quest, they seem to be from logging in.

The recipient is supposed to be the halfling candy girl, I thought? Regardless, her quest dialog isn't showing. I'll have that fixed in a week or two if no one else gets to it first.

The quest giver states a woman surrounded by children...there is an old woman with 3-4 children around that I thought was the recipient. But on the description states she is making soup for them. I thought this was the intended goal.

The candy selling hin is surrounded by bodyguards, not kids. (though they ARE halflings).

The Sugar Sweets gang are a bunch of cigar-smoking girls near to her; her dialog identifies them as children!