gumdrop

/ˈɡʌm.dɹɑːp/

A small chewy candy made with corn syrup, gelatin, and flavouring.


fairy floss

Disconsolately they shot the water-chute, swung on the swings, ate fairy floss from the booth like nostalgic exiles from fairyland.

1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 74:

The girls were already bagging fairy floss, and stockpiling it as fast as they could.

2009, Rex Ellis, Chapter 3: Cocklebiddy, the Sydney Show and Kybo Station: Go with the Flow, page 25:

Sophie hands an impatient child a stick of fairy floss and sees Grace walk by, pushing the baby in his stroller.

2005, Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary, page 282:

Sergeant Snottle pulled out from under his long black chest plate a piece of pink and blue fairy floss.

2011, Jacqueline Delaney, Professor Yish Kabibble in the Curse of the Scruttles, page 22:

(Australia) Heated sugar spun into thin threads and collected into a mass, usually on a stick.


cotton candy

en-noun

cotton candy (usually uncountable, plural cotton candies)

cotton candies (plural)
cotton-candy (alternative)

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From cotton + candy; from being a candy appearing like a mass of cotton balls or cotton batting.

(US, Canada) Melted sugar spun into thin threads and collected into a mass, usually on a stick.


candy floss

candy floss (usually uncountable, plural candy flosses)

(UK, Ireland) Heated sugar spun into thin threads and collected into a mass, usually on a stick.


chewing gum

chewing gum (countable and uncountable, plural chewing gums)

chewing gums (plural)
chewing-gum (alternative dated)

→ Bengali: চ্যুইং গাম (cuiṅ gam)

desc

ချူးအင်းဂမ်း

→ Burmese: ချူးအင်းဂမ်း (hkyu:ang:gam:)

→ French: chewing-gum

→ Hindi: चूइंग गम (cūiṅg gam)

→ Japanese: チューインガム (chūingamu)

→ Korean: 츄잉껌 (chu'ingkkeom)

→ Maltese: ċuwing-gamm, ċjuwing-gamm, chewing gum, ċuwingam

→ Pannonian Rusyn: (Kucura) чунґам (čungam)

→ Portuguese: chuinga

→ Romanian: ciungă

→ Sicilian: ciunga, giggumma

چُوئِن٘گ گَم

→ Urdu: چُوئِن٘گ گَم (cūiṅg gam)

→ Urdu: چُوئِن٘گ گَم (cūiṅg gam)

→ Yoruba: ṣingọ́ọ̀mù

A flavoured preparation of chicle or synthetic rubber, made for chewing.

橡奶糖

chhiǔⁿ-lin-thn̂g, chhiūⁿ-ni-thn̂g, chhiū-leng-thn̂g, chhiū-ni-thn̂g


penny chew

(British) A chew (chewy confectionery) costing (or formerly costing) one penny.


fudge

en-noun

fudge (countable and uncountable, plural fudges)

Probably a variant of fadge (“to fit”), the confectionery sense having evolved from the meaning of “merging together” or “turning out as expected”.

Have you tried the vanilla fudge? It's delicious!

(chiefly uncountable) A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream.

Here comes the fudge!

(euphemistic, slang) Fecal matter; feces.


hundreds and thousands

100s and 1000s (alternative)
100s & 1000s (alternative)

PIE word
 *ḱm̥tóm
From hundreds + and + thousands. Sense 2 (“tiny balls or strands of multicoloured sugar”) is from the fact that the confectionery is made up of numerous sugar pieces.

So there you have them - Onoda, Gund, Eclipse - all squidged together on the same spoon, their flavours intermingling under a bleeding crust of hundreds-and-thousands.

2003, Neil Wills, “Surfers′ Paradise”, in Third Way, page 12:

Hundreds and thousands, commonly yet boringly called “sprinkles” in North America, are enough to make any child smile. Sprinkled over a cookie and sandwiched around creamy ice cream makes for sheer bliss!

2007, Pippa Cuthbert, Lindsay Cameron Wilson, Cookies!, New Holland Publishers (UK), archived from the original on 2016-09-17, page 96:

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Tiny balls or strands of multicoloured sugar, sprinkled over ice cream, desserts or party foods.


lolly

lolly (countable and uncountable, plural lollies)

Trim the lolly sticks, so that you have a stem of about 3–4cm to stick into the cake, and then plunge the sticks of the foreshortened lollies into the cake so that the ghoulish faces leer out from their black-frosted graveyard.

2004, Nigella Lawson, Feast: Food that Celebrates Life, unnumbered page:

A piece of hard candy on a stick; a lollipop.

Leaving the Domain, I walked back to the hotel, noticing the queer signs by the way. One was “Lollies for Sale.” It was over the door of a confectioner′s store where all sorts of candies were displayed.

1924, Frank George Carpenter, Australia, New Zealand and Some Islands of the South Seas, page 36:

Organise the students into small groups. Send a letter home to the parents stating that the science lesson will involve students eating a small amount of lollies. Check which students are allowed to eat lollies. Students with diabetes will only be able to observe or they could bring their own ‘special’ sweets from home.

2002, R.I.C. Publications, Primary Science, page 52:

He looked straight into Frau Diller′s spectacled eyes and said, ‘Mixed lollies, please.’
Frau Diller smiled.[…]‘Here,’ she said, tossing a single lolly onto the counter. ‘Mix it yourself.’

2008, Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, unnumbered page:

(Commonwealth) Any confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content; a sweet, a piece of candy.


lolly

en-adj

lolly (comparative lollier, superlative lolliest)

lollier (comparative)
lolliest (superlative)


taffy

en-noun

taffy (countable and uncountable, plural taffies)

Probably related to tafia (“a type of rum”).

(US) A soft, chewy candy made from boiled sugar, molasses, or corn syrup and butter.


candy

candy (countable and uncountable, plural candies)

→ Cebuano: kendi

→ Hindi: कैंडी (kaiṇḍī)

→ Hopi: kyenti

→ Japanese: キャンディ (kyandi)

→ Kashubian: kindus (United States)

→ Korean: 캔디 (kaendi)

→ Tagalog: kendi

→ Unami: kèntis

From Middle English sugre candy, from Old French sucre candi (literally “candied sugar”), from Arabic سُكَّر قَنْدِي (sukkar qandī), from Arabic قَنْد (qand, “rock candy”), from Persian کند (kand) from Sanskrit खण्ड (khaṇḍa, “piece, fragment, candied sugar, dried molasses”), root खण्ड् (khaṇḍ, “to divide, break into pieces”), or from Proto-Dravidian *kaṇṭu; compare Tamil கண்டு (kaṇṭu, “hard candy”).

der

سُكَّر قَنْدِي

They came down to buy sugar, flour, saltfish or candy from Nana, to collect letters and exchange gossip.

artificial sweetener
artificial sweetener

(uncountable, chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.

Unwholesome pink and yellow candies were sold from trays.

(countable, chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) A piece of confectionery of this kind.


candy

en-verb

candy (third-person singular simple present candies, present participle candying, simple past and past participle candied)

candies (present singular third-person)
candying (participle present)
candied (participle past)
candied (past)

der

سُكَّر قَنْدِي

(cooking) To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.

Fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.

(intransitive) To have sugar crystals form in or on.


bonbon

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Borrowed from French bonbon, reduplication of bon (“good”), from Latin bonus.

A sweet, especially a small chocolate-covered candy.


fondant

en-noun

fondant (countable and uncountable, plural fondants)

19th century. Unadapted borrowing from French fondant (“melting”), from fondre (“to melt”), from Latin fundere (“to melt”).

ubor

To produce most types of fondant, you cook sugar, corn syrup, and water and beat the cooled mixture into a creamy paste. You may find a fondant recipe that includes other ingredients, but the three primary ingredients are the ones listed here.

2011, David Jones, Candy Making For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

(usually uncountable) A flavored, creamy sugar preparation, used for icing cakes or as a base for candies.

"Don't!" said Mrs. Mallowe, feebly. "You make my head ache. I'm miserable to-day. Stay me with fondants, comfort me with chocolates[.]"

1889, Rudyard Kipling, “A Second-rate Woman”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 99:

At Chapter One, these chocolate fondants are served restaurant-style with a crème brulée ravioli and an unusual basil ice cream as well as the warm sauce given.

2005, Georgina Campbell, Irish Country House Cooking: The Blue Book Recipe Collection, page 62:

(countable) A candy or cake filled with such a preparation.

Stan made a heroic attempt at a tiered cinnamon cake with a rolled fondant icing that came out gray and tore when he draped it over the cake.

2012, Kathryn Williams, Pizza, Love, and Other Stuff That Made Me Famous, Henry Holt and Company (BYR), →ISBN, page 182:

(food) A sugar dough, usually prepared as large sheets (rolled fondant), used in place of icing to cover large areas of cakes, composed of sugar, water, gelatin, glycerine.

fondant chocolate

fondant cheese

Start with a Cortland apple salad, beets with goat cheese fondant, […]

2010, Paul Karr, Frommer's Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, →ISBN:

(slang) Facial makeup (cosmetics), when used excessively.


sucker

From Middle English souker, sokere, sukkere, soukere, equivalent to suck (verb) + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Suuger, West Frisian sûker (“sucker”), Dutch zuiger (“sucker”), German Sauger (“dummy; vacuum”).

(US, informal) A lollipop; a piece of candy which is sucked.

Thus to and again to our paſtime we went, / And my Cards I play'd fairly to Jenny's content; / I work'd at her Pump till my Sucker grew dry, / Then I left pumping, a good Reaſon why.

1750, “Ge ho, Dobbin or the Waggoner”, in The Tulip, page 2:

(obsolete, vulgar, British slang) The penis.


liquorice

en-noun

liquorice (countable and uncountable, plural liquorices)

From licorice by association with liquor.

UK, Ireland, India, and South Africa standard spelling of licorice.


liquorice allsorts

A confection made of liquorice, coconut and aniseed.


licorice

licorice (usually uncountable, plural licorices)

licorices (plural)
liquorice (alternative British India Ireland)
usage notes (alternative)

From Middle English lycorys, from Old French licoresse, from Late Latin liquiritia, alteration of Ancient Greek γλυκύρριζα (glukúrrhiza): γλυκύς (glukús, “sweet”) + ῥίζα (rhíza, “root”) (English glucose, English rhizome). Doublet of glycyrrhiza.

(uncountable) A type of candy made from that plant's dried root or its extract.

甘草

かんぞう, kanzō, あまくさ, amakusa, あまき, amaki (obsolete)


pashmak

From Persian پشمک (pašmak), diminutive of پشم (pašm, “wool”).

A type of Persian candy floss/cotton candy made from sesame oil and sugar.


Easter egg

/ˈiː.stəɹ ˌɛɡ/

From Easter + egg. Cognate with German Low German Ooosterei (“Easter egg”), Middle High German ōsterei ("Easter egg"; > modern German Osterei). So called because eggs would be eaten during Easter to break the fasting during Lent. (No eggs, dairy, meat except fish, lard, or foods containing these ingredients could be eaten during Lent.) The computing sense is from the early 1980s, popularized by the video game Adventure.

gloss

"Easter egg"; > modern German <i class="Latn mention" lang="de">Osterei</i>

I reached the first fork in the tree and there they lay—several melted Easter eggs[…] Quickly I tore open the foil and licked the melted chocolate until there wasn't a trace left on the paper.

2008, Christel Behnke Gehlert, Recollections of a Hamburger: Growing Up German, 1941-1962, page 143:

A chocolate confection in the shape of an egg, sometimes with chocolates or sweets inside.

復活蛋 /复活蛋

a chocolate confection in the shape of an egg


dragée

I opened the cupboard and found a bag of raisins, two empty sauce bottles, a packet of icing sugar, a tube of dragées and a paper packet of candles.

1971, Anthony Burgess, M/F, Penguin, published 2004, page 129:

A sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc.

مُلَبَّس

a sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc.


bubblegum

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(by extension) Sweet, perky, or youthful.


marshmallow

en-noun

marshmallow (countable and uncountable, plural marshmallows)

marshmallows (plural)
marsh mallow (alternative)
marsh-mallow (alternative)

Dutch: marshmallow

French: marshmallow

German: Marshmallow

Japanese: マシュマロ (mashumaro)

Korean: 마시멜로 (masimello)

Portuguese: marshmallow

Russian: маршмэ́ллоу (maršmɛ́llou)

/mɑːʃˈmæləʊ/

/ˈmɑɹʃˌmɛl.oʊ/

/ˈmɑɹʃˌmæl.oʊ/

From Old English mersċmealwe, corresponding to marsh + mallow.

The Disagreeable Girl is a female of the genus homo persuasion, built around a digestive apparatus that possesses marked marshmallow proclivities.

1906, Elbert Hubbard, Love, Life and Work:

It was an apple marshmallow sundae, I recollect. I dug my spoon into it with an assumption of gaiety which I was far from feeling.

December 1915, P. G. Wodehouse, “My Battle with Drink”, in Vanity Fair:

(countable, uncountable) A type of confectionery, originally (since Ancient Egyptian times) made from this plant, but now generally made of sugar or corn syrup, gelatin that has been presoftened in water, gum arabic, flavorings, and sometimes beaten egg whites, all whipped to a spongy consistency.


confection

From Middle English confescioun, borrowed from Old French confeccion (French confection), borrowed from Latin cōnfectiōnem, from confectus, past participle of conficere (“prepare”), from com- (“with”) + facere (“to make, do”). Originally "the making by means of ingredients"; sense of "candy or light pastry" predominant since 1500s.

The table was covered with all sorts of tempting confections.

A food item prepared very sweet, frequently decorated in fine detail, and often preserved with sugar, such as a candy, sweetmeat, fruit preserve, pastry, or cake.


butterscotch

butterscotch (usually uncountable, plural butterscotches)

/ˈbʌtɚˌskɑt͡ʃ/

From butter + scotch, with the second element deriving (not from scotch whiskey or Scotland, but) from Middle English scocchen (“to score, nick, cut”), in reference to how the candy is boiled and hardened and then usually scored to make breaking it apart easier. The word is usually said to have originally been a trademark of Parkinson's, who is claimed to have invented it.

der

A hard candy made from butter, brown sugar, syrup and vanilla.


banoffee

A British cream filling made from banana and toffee.


marzipan

en-noun

marzipan (usually uncountable, plural marzipans)

marzipans (plural)
marchpane (alternative obsolete)

/ˌmɑːzɪˈpæn/

Borrowed from German Marzipan, from Italian marzapane, Venetan marzapane. Believed to be, with influence from pane (“bread”), derived from Arabic مَرْطَبَان (marṭabān, “spice box”) which comes from the name of a Burmese port known for its spice exports, Martaban, now called in Burmese မုတ္ထမ (muthta.ma.).

der

A confection made from a paste of almonds, sugar and egg white as a binder.

marzipani

confection of almond paste, sugar and egg white

Place the hazelnuts on a baking sheet and grill […] then grind finely […] then add the caster sugar and ground hazelnuts [to egg whites] and mix to a stiff marzipan paste. Sandwich the pecan nuts together in pairs with a little of the hazelnut marzipan.

2009, Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Christmas Recipes: Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook, (Please provide the book title or journal name), Hamlyn, →ISBN:

Hazelnut marzipan. Hazelnuts are used as an alternative to almonds, ground together in a proportion from 11⁄2 to 2 parts nuts to sugar. Almonds may be mixed in according to taste.

2015, The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 433:

[…] cookie mini pack, watermelon Bubble Yum or, my favorite, de la Rosa, a peanut marzipan round packaged in a cellophane wrapper with a delicate rose printed on it. De la Rosa is a perfect confection. Just crumbly enough, just sweet enough […]

2019, Lagusta Yearwood, Sweet + Salty: The Art of Vegan Chocolates, Truffles, Caramels, and More from Lagusta's Luscious, Da Capo Lifelong Books, →ISBN:

To make the filling: In a food processor, blend the peanut butter, powdered sugar, salt, and cayenne together. […] THE FILLING RECIPE IS ALSO awfully close to that of peanut marzipan, which you can make yourself by adding more powdered sugar to create a sturdier, shape-able “dough,” or just look for the de la Rosa brand at your local Latino grocery.

2020, Amy C. Evans, Martha Hall Foose, A Good Meal Is Hard to Find: Storied Recipes from Deep South, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 87:

A similar confection made using another nut, such as peanut or hazelnut.

One afternoon not long afterwards you waited byher bedside as she swam through anesthetic. A box of cherry chocolates and a dozen roses in your lap. Cherry chocolates and chocolate-covered marzipans. Then you drove her home. Chocolate-covered marzipans being her favorite.

2002, Lance Olsen, Girl Imagined by Chance, University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 81:

In one hand she held a handkerchief, and in the other she held two cherry-shaped marzipans. Rosalia smiled when she saw the marzipans and took them and the handkerchief from Madre Carmela.

2016, Rosanna Chiofalo, Rosalia's Bittersweet Pastry Shop, Kensington Books, →ISBN:

(countable) A piece of such a confection.


marzipan

en-verb

marzipan (third-person singular simple present marzipans, present participle marzipanning, simple past and past participle marzipanned)

marzipans (present singular third-person)
marzipanning (participle present)
marzipanned (participle past)
marzipanned (past)
marchpane (alternative obsolete)

/ˌmɑːzɪˈpæn/

a marzipanned cake


Gummy Bears

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Calque of German Gummibärchen, the name of the confectionery in Germany.

A kind of gummy candy, a type of confectionery made from gelatine, in the miniature form of a toy bear.


Snickers

en-noun

Snickers (plural Snickers or (rare) Snickerses)

Snickers (plural)
Snickerses (plural rare)

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Coined in 1930, from the name of a favorite horse owned by the Mars family, from snicker (“to whinny”) + -s (hypocoristic suffix).

suffix

Over in a corner of the building, amid the packing crates and pallets, the snack bar is doing a land-office business. Burgers, hot dogs, potato chips, Snickerses, some fresh fruit and some tired-looking pastries, soda, and very respectable coffee are being dispensed by a hurried man named Willie and his three female assistants.

1982 May 25, Paul D. Lehrman, “Advent and departure: A day at the auction”, in Richard M. Gaines, editor, The Boston Phoenix, volume XI, number 21, Boston, Mass.: Media Communications Corporation, →ISSN, Home Entertainment supplement, page 11, column 1:

From his expression, it seemed that the only thing of importance taking place in the room was his deciding between a Snickers and a Babe Ruth!

1987, Jo Ann Algermissen, Couple Diamonds, page 78:

"Yep," said Robin, reaching into the cooler for a diet soda and a Snickers.

1990, Page McBrier, The Press Mess, page 23:

Yet, though Halloween has long been seen as a time for mild pranks, along with usually unverifiable eerie activity, the dread it inspires seems to us to be more mock than real. Not only are those caramel apples and miniature Snickerses positively delicious but, for many of us, so is the contemplation of those awful things briefly going “bump!” in the night beyond our windows—that is, as long as we’re safe inside.

1994, Michele Slung, Roland Hartman, “Preface”, in Murder for Halloween: Tales of Suspense, New York, N.Y.: Mysterious Press, →ISBN, page xiv:

He saw humans feed them something called a Snickers, and he could feel the pain of those same deer as their stomachs twisted and contorted, but they came back for more of these Snickers.

2001, Grant Guimont, A Carousel of Sorts: The Cynic's Secret Guide to Ultimate Happiness, page 269:

‘…I suppose it’s a bit like Snickers always being Marathon in my eyes. In about ten years only old people like me will remember it.’
 ’No!’ he protested. ‘It’ll never die. In the minds of right-thinking people it’ll always be Marathon. For goodness’ sake, Snickers! Rhymes with knickers, you don’t want to eat something that does that, do you?’

2004, Dorothy Koomson, The Chocolate Run, page 272:

They just filled up their cars, threw away a Kleenex, grabbed a Snickers, shook out a dress, and washed up.

2005, Ed Broth, Stories from a Moron: Real Stories Rejected by Real Magazines, page 135:

You can hop out of bed, visit the bathroom (and grin in the mirror), make a nice cup of tea, grab a Snickers and return to bed to daydream the morn away.

2007, Hugh Prior, They Flew So High, page 149:

Save room for such desserts as Snickers pie or tiramisu for two.

2008, Eric B. Wechter, Fodor's Pacific Northwest, page 554:

“Sylvie, you realize we’ll be eating lunch in an hour, right?” This was my older sister Kate, seated to my left, on the aisle. / “Yeah, if it was in an hour and a half, she would’ve gotten two Snickers.” This was my younger sister Meg, who always seemed to get the window seat. / “You mean two Snickerses,” I told her. “But here are two snickers, just for you,” and here I clicked my tongue disapprovingly—twice.

2008, Cheryl Cory, chapter 1, in Must’ve Done Something Good, 2nd edition, Worcester, Mass.: Thirteen Hundred Media, published 2009, →ISBN, page 1:

BOB. Jeanine used to pull out a Snickers from her purse every time we hit a snag, like when there was four hours of traffic to get to Hoover Dam, when I got a B on a chemistry test, or when we got to the Michelle Kwan Museum and it was closed for renovation. I could really use a Snickers right now.

2012, Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, Bob: A Life in Five Acts, page 24:

Sophie just came to the door and said, “Tad? I’m sorry you had a bad time at your party. You can have one of my Snickerses if you want.” Which was really nice of her. I mean, she’s allergic to peanuts, so I’m not sure why she didn’t let me have all the Snickers. But still . . . it was nice of her.

2012, Tim Carvell, “October 31”, in Planet Tad, New York, N.Y.: Harper, →ISBN, page 206:

A chocolate bar produced by the Mars company, with a peanut, caramel and nougat filling.


mint imperial

A small round confection having a hard sugar coat and a soft minty centre; sometimes given to customers at the end of a restaurant meal when they pay the bill.


bootlace

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A long, thin, chewy confectionery, typically with liquorice or fruit flavour.


apple fritter

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A type of fritter made with pieces of apple deep-fried in batter and often served covered with powdered sugar, honey or cinnamon.


peppermint

en-noun

peppermint (countable and uncountable, plural peppermints)

→ French: paparmane

→ Gujarati: પિપરમીટ (piparmīṭ)

→ Japanese: ペパーミント (pepāminto)

→ Korean: 페퍼민트 (pepeominteu)

(countable) Any of various sweets containing extract of the peppermint herb; peppermint confectionery.


macaroon

From French macaron. Doublet of macaron.

I will take charge of the cake department, including, if I remember rightly, plum and plain, rout cakes, and macaroons, finger biscuits, and cracknels.

1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 208:

A soft biscuit or cookie prepared with almond or coconut dough.


macaroon

Like a big wife, at sight of lothed meat,
Ready to travail; so I sigh and sweat,
To hear this macaroon talk on in vain.

1590s, John Donne, Satire IV, "Well; I may now receive, and die"


dulce de leche

From Spanish dulce de leche (literally “milk sweet”). Compare dolcelatte.

bor

Unlike dulce de leche, in which milk is cooked down with sugar until it thickens into gold, the milk stays white here — burfi comes from the Persian word for snow — for a purer flavor.

2023 May 24, Ligaya Mishan, “The Shortcut to Homemade Milk Candy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A South American sweet spread made from sugar and boiled milk.


caramel

en-noun

caramel (countable and uncountable, plural caramels)

caramels (plural)
caromel (alternative archaic)

General American, Mary–marry–merry merger

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Borrowed from French caramel, from Spanish caramelo, from Portuguese caramelo, dissimilated from Late Latin calamellus, diminutive of calamus (“reed”) (and a doublet of chalumeau and shawm). Alternatively from Medieval Latin cannamellis, which is a compound of canna + mellis.

The usual technique for making caramel is to mix table sugar with some water, then heat until the water has boiled off and the molten sugar colors.

2004, Harold McGee, chapter 12, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:

(uncountable) A smooth, chewy, sticky confection made by heating sugar and other ingredients until the sugars polymerize and become sticky.


jelly bean

jelly beans (plural)
jellybean (alternative)

Ronalda had gotten these jelly beans special, from Lenox Square. They were all colors, pink with brown flecks, purple, orange. The flavors had exotic names like Piña Colada and Fig Leaf.

2020, Tayari Jones, Silver Sparrow, Oneworld Publications, page 104:

A small, bean-shaped, chewy candy/sweet with a firm coating and a jelly-like center, made of sugar, flavoring, coloring and sometimes starch or other thickener, and usually sold assorted in a wide variety of flavors and bright colors.


jelly baby

(chiefly British) A piece of gelatine confectionery designed to approximate the shape of a human baby.


nonpareil

nonpareil (countable and uncountable, plural nonpareils)

nonpareils (plural)
non-pareil (alternative)
nonparella (alternative)
nonpareillo (alternative)

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/ˌnɑnpəˈɹɛl/

From Late Middle English non-parail (“unparalleled, nonpareil”) [and other forms], from Middle French nonpareille, nonpareil (“unparalleled”) (obsolete), from non- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + pareil (“alike, like, same”). Pareil is derived from Old French pareil, from Late Latin pāriculus (“equal; like; of a number: even”), from Latin pār (“equal; like; of a number: even; suitable”) + -culus (a variant of -ulus (suffix forming diminutives)). Doublet of umpire.
Noun sense 4 (size of type standardized at 6-point) is usually taken to derive from the attractive type cut by the brothers Giovanni and Gregorio De Gregori (fl. 1482–1503 and 1496–1527 respectively) for their 1498 edition of the divine offices in Venice; it was for a long time the smallest-sized type in use.

nb...

nonparaille, nonpareyl, nounparalle, nowimparaile

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(archaic) Any of various types of small sweets.


halva

en-noun

halva (countable and uncountable, plural halvas)

halvas (plural)
khalva (alternative)
halava (alternative)
halavah (alternative)
halawa (alternative)
halaweh (alternative)
halvah (alternative)
halwa (alternative)
halwah (alternative)
hulwa (alternative)

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From Hebrew חלווה (khálva), from Romanian halva, from Ottoman Turkish حلوا (helva), from Persian حلوا (halvâ), from Arabic حَلْوَى (ḥalwā). Cognate with Halwai.

Just before Christmas, Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, sent the White House a box of holiday gifts with a pointed political message. Inside were items (body lotion, halvah, olive oil) produced in Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

2016 January 26, Eyal Press, “When ‘Made In Israel’ Is a Human Rights Abuse”, in The New York Times:

A confection usually made from crushed sesame seeds and honey. It is a traditional dessert in South Asia, the Mediterranean and the Middle East.


cachou

From French cachou, from Portuguese cachu, from Malay kacu (“type of acacia”).

Dante gave him a cachou every time he brought her a piece of tissue paper.

1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, page 20:

But her husband, frowning, remembered those little sweets, or cachous, scented with something like violet, a synthetic smell, that had drifted on the more irritating afternoons above the smells of the sealing wax and ink.

1955, Patrick White, chapter 19, in The Tree of Man, New York: Viking, page 347:


toffee

toffee (countable and uncountable, plural toffees)

toffees (plural)
taffy (alternative)
toffy (alternative)

→ Cantonese: 拖肥 (to¹ fei⁴⁻²)

(Northern England) Any kind of sweets; candy.


toffee apple

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The weapon is named after the food item, having a similar shape, i.e. a sphere with attached stick or handle.

Toffee apples and fairy floss are often sold as fairground snacks.

(chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A candy apple.


lollipop

lollipops (plural)
lolli-pop (alternative)
lollypop (alternative)
lolly pop (alternative)
lolly-pop (alternative)

Multiple theories abound. One is that it is from Angloromani loli (“red”) + phabaj (“apple”); candy apples today are usually placed on a stick to keep the person's hands dry. Another is that it is derived from loll (“to dangle the tongue”) + pop.

unk

Multiple theories abound

An item of confectionery consisting of a piece of candy or sweet attached to a stick.


ras malai

From Hindi रस मलाई (ras malāī), from रस (ras, “nectar, juice”) and मलाई (malāī, “cream”).

A sweet dish found in the Indian subcontinent consisting of sugary cream-colored balls of dough and a creamy sweet liquid.


jawbreaker

jawbreakers (plural)
jaw-breaker (alternative)
jaw breaker (alternative)

If somebody microwaves a large jawbreaker and nibbles on the outside, a crack can cause molten candy to burst out and cause painful burns. Exploding jawbreakers have been documented on television news and in police reports.

2005, Keith Zimmerman, MythBusters: The Explosive Truth Behind 30 of the Most Perplexing Urban Legends of All Time, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

A large, extremely hard, boiled candy, typically spherical.


niggerball

en-noun

niggerball (countable and uncountable, plural niggerballs)

1972, Contrast, Volume 8, South African Literary Journal
Nigger-balls are the best sweets. You get four for a penny. When the black is sucked off you get pink and blue and blue-green, but you can't bite them until you've sucked them small or you'll chip your teeth.

That the words of Jeremy Taylor's Ag Pleez, Deddy have been changed to suit the times? No longer " … how we miss niggerballs and licorice … " but " … how we miss bullseyes and … " Ag pleez, Jeremy.

1979, Financial Mail, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

niggerballs and liquorice and the soft, brightly-coloured squares that the children loved.

(countable, South Africa, dated, offensive) A large black gobstopper (long-lasting candy).


Toblerone

Brand name, from a blend of Tobler (“surname of one of the creators”) + Italian torrone (“form of nougat”).

The H and N components, which Professor Oxford says are shaped like "Toblerones and mushrooms", are the ones that mutate and cause problems for the human immune system.

2000 January 9, “The killer shaped like a Toblerone”, in The Independent:

Below us the white granite and quartz of the most sacred of Inca sites sparkled, its Toblerone-shaped walls and deserted craters stretching over seventy acres.

2002, Richard Bangs, Ed Viesturs, Richard Bangs, adventure without end:

Hen number four was another bantam, living with three or four similar birds in one of the breeding arks. An ark is a Toblerone-shaped portable chicken enclosure, with a bedding/nest area at one end and a wire-mesh run at the other.

2005, Martin Gurdon, Hen and the Art of Chicken Maintenance, page 26:

You don't have to climb every mountain, just choose one: Kilimanjaro. The volcano stands out from the Tanzanian plains like a Toblerone triangle with a bite out of the top. But the mountain is far from sweet. It is high and, after the gentle slopes lull you, hard to climb. Climbing it takes from five to eight days, but if you reach the top you'll feel as strong as a lion.

2005 April 9, “The battered face of the Sphinx”, in Sydney Morning Herald:

The graph jags like a Toblerone, stabbing the heights in times of prosperity and the new-broom sweep of incoming governments.

2007, Lynsey Hanley, Estates: an intimate history, page 99:

A Swiss chocolate bar with honey, nougat and almonds, shaped like a triangular prism with triangular wedge-shaped pieces.

三角朱古力

A chocolate bar having triangular wedges

(cricket, slang) A length of soft sponge shaped like a triangular prism, usually printed with advertising, that can be placed over the boundary rope.


nougat

nougat (countable and uncountable, plural nougats)

desc

→ Cantonese: 鳥結糖 /鸟结糖 (niu⁵ git³ tong⁴⁻²)

→ Wu: 鳥結糖 /鸟结糖 (⁵gniau-ciq₇-daon₆)

→ Welsh: nyget

→ Wu: 牛軋糖 /牛轧糖 (⁶gnieu-gaq₈-daon₆)

→ Hakka: 牛軋糖 /牛轧糖 (ngiù-kâ-thòng)

→ Mandarin: 牛軋糖 /牛轧糖 (niúzhátáng, niúgátáng)

(UK, General Australian, New Zealand) -uːɡɑ

From French nougat, from Occitan nogat, from noga (“nut”), ultimately from Latin nux (“nut”) + -atus (“-ate, forming adjectives and substantives having or resembling some thing or trait”). Compare Spanish nuégado.

Cake Nogat: This nogat may be made in moulds, or square pieces.

1827, Guglielmo A. Jarrin, Italian Confectioner […] , 3rd edition, page 24:

[…](being twenty four and
never screwed but in her
soft nougat thighs)[…]

1999, Lyn Lifshin, “In Spite of His Dangling Pronoun”, in Before It's Light, page 29:

[…]it helps that Snickers offers the holy trinity of confection: nougat, caramel and peanuts[…]

2014 February 18, Sarah Begley, “The 13 Most Influential Candy Bars of All Time”, in Time:

(uncountable) A mixture consisting of egg white and a sweetener, variously mixed with (in western Europe) almonds or (in eastern Europe) hazelnuts or (in US) used without nuts as a filler in candy bars.

نُوغَة

a confection of egg white, a sweetener, and (usually) nuts — see also turron


confectionery

en-noun

confectionery (usually uncountable, plural confectioneries)

confectioneries (plural)
confectionary (alternative archaic dated)

(uncountable) Foodstuffs that taste very sweet, taken as a group; candies, sweetmeats and confections collectively.


bullseye

bullseyes (plural)
bull's-eye (alternative)
bull's eye (alternative)

→ German: Bullauge (calque)

→ Esperanto: bovokulo (calque)

From bull's + eye. May have come from the practice of English archers shooting an arrow through the eye socket of a bull's skull as a test of skill. The connection to philately comes from the shape of the key plate or vignette.

A hard striped peppermint-flavoured boiled sweet.


Anzac biscuit

Associated with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) established in World War I.

(Australia, New Zealand) A biscuit made from oats, coconut and golden syrup.


turron

turron (countable and uncountable, plural turrones or turrons)

turrones (plural)
turrons (plural)
turrón (alternative)
touron (alternative)

From Spanish turrón, probably from Latin torrere (“to roast”).

These loaves or blocks of turron are frequently a foot long and have the dimensions of American packaged bread. They come in many flavors, and may be pink, white, yellow, chocolate, green, or a stomach-churning blend of all five colors. […] The ubiquitous turrones in shop windows, frequently sliced to show the prospective consumer the texture and color pattern, range from what most generously could be described as uninspired to confections of a caliber hard to resist.

1982 December 26, Robert Packard, “Spain's Temptation for the Holidays”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A Spanish form of nougat made from almonds and honey.


sugar-plum

sugar-plums (plural)
sugar plum (alternative)
sugarplum (alternative)

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A round or oval sweet/piece of candy made of boiled sugar.


candy cane

(US, Canada) An edible candy in the shape of a cane or staff, generally consumed during Christmas time and usually having a peppermint flavor.


sherbet

sherbet (countable and uncountable, plural sherbets)

sherbets (plural)
sherbert (alternative)

From Turkish şerbet, from Ottoman Turkish شربت (şerbet), from Arabic شَرْبَة (šarba, “drink”).
Doublet of sorbet and sharbat, related to syrup.

A dessert of frozen fruit juice with a dairy product such as milk added; a sorbet with dairy ingredients.

sorbet laitier

recommended since 1997, mandatory since 1998

An effervescent powder made of bicarbonate of soda, sugar and flavourings, intended to be eaten alone or mixed with water to make a drink.

Directly they were trotted off in their little pea-green and gilt carriage, guardian negress and all, I went into the shop, about which I had all this time been loafingly prowling, and called, clapping my hands, for some violet sherbet, […]

1860, Walter Thornbury, Turkish Life and Character, volume 1, page 137:

Tea is becoming a favourite drink in Turkey, not instead of coffee, but of the sherbet or cool drinks that are handed to guests; it comes generally from Russia, and although a trifle dear on account of the carriage, is extremely good, when properly made.

1895, Oswald Hutton Parry, Six Months in a Syrian Monastery [2004 reprint], page 86

The beverages of the Turks were an interesting exception to their reputation for simple foods. While many writers mentioned the Turkish penchant for drinking “cleere water,” in light of the prohibitions against alcohol (although some writers, usually those who were more negatively inclined against the Turks, maintained that they were drunkards in secret), virtually all authors discussed the nonalcoholic drinks made by the Turks to replace alcohol, not only coffee, but also sweet refined drinks such as sherbet, a cold drink that usually included sugar, water, and a fruity or flowery flavoring. Sherbet was considered a delicacy, and it and other refined drinks were mentioned in detail by a number of travelers.

2008, Anna Suranyi, The Genius of the English Nation: Travel Writing and National Identity in Early Modern England, pages 101–102:

A traditional West and South Asian sweet drink prepared from fruits or flower petals.


sherbert

sherbert (countable and uncountable, plural sherberts)

(chiefly US, sometimes proscribed) Alternative spelling of sherbet (“food of frozen fruit juice with a dairy product added”).


angel hair

Sense 1 is a semantic loan from Italian capelli d'angelo.

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A traditional Portuguese sweet food, fios de ovos.


sugarallie

From sugar + Scots alicreesh, allacreesh (“liquorice”), earlier alacreische, probably through Dutch lakkeris from Old French licorece, licoresse, whence English licorice, liquorice.

sugarally (alternative)
sugarellie (alternative)
sugarelly (alternative)
sugarolly (alternative)


snow cone

(US) A confection of crushed ice covered with flavored syrup or fruit juice, usually served in a paper cone or a plastic glass.

raspado

Mexican standard usage, Nicaragua, Panama, Venezuelan standard usage


gummy bear

gummy bears (plural)
Gummy Bear (alternative)
gummi bear (alternative)

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A confectionery made of gelatin in the miniature shape of a toy bear


gummy worm

gummy worms (plural)
Gummy Worm (alternative)

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A confectionery made of gelatin and often, but not always, in the shape of a toy worm, and somewhat softer than a gummy bear.

confectionery made of gelatin

gummy, gummy bear, gummy candy, gummy sweet


Turkish delight

en-noun

Turkish delight (usually uncountable, plural Turkish delights)

Allegedly coined by an English traveller who could not pronounce the Ottoman Turkish name راحت الحلقوم (râhatü'l-hulkûm), 18th c.

A soft, sticky confection made from starch and sugar with various flavourings.


caramel apple

A dessert or snack made by dipping an apple in liquid heated caramel and often sprinkling with nuts etc., then allowing the caramel to cool and harden.


candy bar

He got another candy bar out of the refrigerator and ripped the wrapper and threw it on the floor. He was sick of candy bars, his mouth full of sugary slop.

1984, Daniel Curzon, The World Can Break Your Heart, page 229:

(US) A kind of candy in the shape of a bar, often made of chocolate.


praline

praline (countable and uncountable, plural pralines)

A typical praline is roundish, about three inches in diameter and a half-inch thick. The taste is faintly regressive, reminiscent of the pleasure to be found in a peanut butter and jelly sandwich when one is ravenously hungry.

1992 March 15, Frances Frank Marcus, “A Sweet Pleasure From New Orleans: The Praline”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

And so it is with praline, that crunchy, sweet, nut brittle that marries so irresistibly with chocolate.

2017 March 26, Nigel Slater, “Nigel Slater’s chocolate and praline recipes”, in The Guardian:

A confection made from almonds and other nuts, caramelized sugar, and sometimes milk or cream.


rock candy

rock candy (usually uncountable, plural rock candies)

(US) A form of confectionery made by crystallizing sugar around a string.

sucre candi

a form of confectionery made by crystallizing sugar around a string


dolly mixture

dolly mixture (countable and uncountable, plural dolly mixtures)

confectionery in the form of a variety of multicoloured soft candies and jelly sweets sold together as a mixture.


gobstopper

gobstoppers (plural)
gob stopper (alternative)
gob-stopper (alternative)

“Everlasting Gobstoppers!”’ cried Mr. Wonka proudly. “They're completely new! I am inventing them for children who are given very little pocket money. You can put an Everlasting Gobstopper in your mouth and you can suck it and suck it and suck it and suck it and suck it and it will never get any smaller!”

1964, Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, New York: A. A. Knopf, page 95:

Hence, gobstopper—something that stops the mouth. If you want to stop someone from prattling on, simply stuff a gobstopper in his or her mouth. The Everlasting Gobstopper, a jawbreaker that changes colors and flavors, was the brainchild of Roald Dahl in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in 1964.

2014, Richard W. Hartel, AnnaKate Hartel, Candy Bites: The Science of Sweets, Springer, →ISBN, page 183:

(British, Ireland) A type of hard long-lasting candy, usually spherical in shape.


pignoli

From Italian pinoli (“pine nuts”) (by confusion with pignoli (“fussy people”)?).

A cookie made with pine nuts, a type of amaretto.


barley sugar

barley sugar (countable and uncountable, plural barley sugars)

A traditional British boiled sweet, yellow or orange in colour, with an extract of barley added as flavouring.


boiled sweet

(British) A hard sweet, made by boiling sugar, which gradually dissolves when sucked.


lemon drop

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I remember those times. The corner bodega shops with the quarter waters and yellow lemon drops and the now and later, Do you remember then?

2013, Yanatha Desouvre, Walk Through This Journey: Volume One, →ISBN:

A yellow lemon-flavored and lemon-shaped candy.


berlingot

A hard candy made from caramel, usually in pyramidal form.


sugar mouse

A traditional sweet, based on icing sugar, in the shape of a mouse, often fitted with a piece of string for a tail.


marron glacé

marron glacé (countable and uncountable, plural marrons glacés)

marrons glacés (plural)
marron glace (alternative)

/məˌɹɑn ɡləˈseɪ/

Borrowed from French marron glacé (literally “iced chestnut”).

bor

MARRON SANDWICH: Cut the bread in rounds with a biscuit cutter; put a marron glace in the center and around it whipped cream that has sweetened and flavored. Nice for afternoon luncheon.

1909, Eva Greene Fuller, The Up-To-Date Sandwich Book: 400 Ways to Make a Sandwich, page 156:

A chestnut preserved in sugar or syrup and flavoured with vanilla.


candy apple

(US) An apple with a hard sugar candy coating.


wine gum

(UK, Canada, New Zealand) a chewy, pastille-like jelly candy, usually brightly coloured and fruit flavoured.


candy corn

en-noun

candy corn (usually uncountable, plural candy corns)

(US, Canada) A confection of sugar and corn syrup or honey, supposed to resemble a kernel of maize.


Naples biscuit

After saluting her, he led her to a couch that fronted us, where they both sat down, and the young Genoese helped her to a glass of wine, with some Naples biscuit on a salver.

1749, John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Penguin, published 1985, page 66:

(now historical) A type of biscuit flavoured with rosewater.


lokum

lokum (countable and uncountable, plural lokums)

lokums (plural)
lokoum (alternative)
loukoumi (alternative)
locoum (alternative)


callet

You add unmelted chocolate callets (purpose-made chocolate chips) or finely chopped chocolate to already-melted chocolate to bring the temperature down.

2014, Molly Bakes, “Techniques”, in Chocolate: Easy Recipes from Truffles to Bakes, Square Peg, →ISBN:

In the shops and bakery we use chocolate callets (or chips) in our baking. They come in a range of cocoa percentages and have the great advantage of melting evenly, which makes the chocolate less temperamental to work with.

2017, Yotam Ottolenghi, Helen Goh, with Tara Wigley, “Baker’s tips and notes”, in Sweet, Ebury Press:

We call for chocolate chips in our Chocolate Chip Cookies (page 1010), but there's another chocolate product on the market that's sometimes used for the same purpose: chocolate callets, which are formulated for melting.

2020, Everything Chocolate: A Decadent Collection of Morning Pastries, Nostalgic Sweets, and Showstopping Desserts, America's Test Kitchen, →ISBN:

A disc-shaped piece of chocolate, the size of a chocolate chip, designed for melting when cooking.


gianduja

gianduja (countable and uncountable, plural giandujas)

giandujas (plural)
gianduia (alternative)

Borrowed from Italian gianduia, gianduja, named after Gianduja, a Piedmontese stock character in the commedia dell'arte, in reference to its place of origin. From Piedmontese Giandoja (literally “John-o'-the-jug”).

der

A Piedmontese preparation of chocolate containing about 50 percent hazelnut and almond paste.


churchkhela

Borrowed from Georgian ჩურჩხელა (čurčxela).

A traditional sausage-shaped candy originating from Georgia and made from grape must, nuts and flour.


hardbake

en-noun

hardbake (countable and uncountable, plural hardbakes)

a washerwoman, who exposes hard-bake for sale in her parlor-window

1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 27, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:

They both had a taste for painting theatrical characters; for hard bake and raspberry tarts; for sliding and skating in the Regent's Park and the Serpentine, when the weather permitted; for going to the play, whither they were often conducted, by Mr. Osborne's orders, by Rowson, Master George's appointed body-servant, with whom they sat in great comfort in the pit.

1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

Harmless improving books were provided for the crew to read, and vanilla ices, sugar-plums, hardbake and raspberry jam were served out every day with a liberal hand.

1908, William Schwenck Gilbert, The Pinafore Picture Book, Chapter 1:

A hard confection made of boiled brown sugar or molasses with almonds, flavoured with orange or lemon juice, similar to a nougat.


loukoumi

From Greek λουκούμι (loukoúmi), from Ottoman Turkish لوقوم (lokum). Doublet of lokum.

He proffered the box of loucoumi and Riquiqui in her turn dug out a cube of Turkish delight and wolfed it, licking the powder off her talons, before dusting her shift to remove the last traces of it.

1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 445:

The spread of supermarkets now means that you can get loukoumi from Siros in supermarkets throughout Greece.

2010, John S Bowman et al., Frommer's Greece, page 27:


Cornish fairing

Cornish fairing (plural Cornish fairings)

A traditional ginger biscuit from Cornwall, England, originally sold at fairs.


hokey pokey

hokey pokey (usually uncountable, plural hokey pokeys)

honeycomb toffee
honeycomb toffee#English

(New Zealand) A confection made from golden syrup, white sugar, and baking soda; honeycomb toffee


hard candy

hard candy (countable and uncountable, plural hard candies)

(US) A candy prepared from one or more syrups boiled to a temperature of 160°C (320°F), thereafter becoming stiff and brittle at room temperature.


jalebi

jalebis (plural)
jallebi (alternative)
jelabee (alternative)
jilabi (alternative)
jilapi (alternative)
jilebi (alternative)
zulbia (alternative)
mushabak (alternative)

From Hindustani जलेबी / جلیبی (jalebī). Doublet of zalabiya.

You will not believe how quickly jalebis can be made. I have used yeast to ferment the jalebi batter quickly and so it does not require to be left for a day to ferment. The trick here is to immediately start frying the jalebis once the batter has rested for 10 minutes.

On the way he saw a sweetmeat seller making jalebis (spiral sweet). He was tempted. In his mind he thought he'd have some jalebis.

But Bhole refused to listen. He became very angry and started to scream, “I want jalebis! Give me jalebis! I want them now!”

2006, Hema De Munnikl, Bhole: Adventures of a Young Yogi, page 22:

Mr. Alam and his staff often insist that visitors enjoy a free treat like chocolate barfi, condensed milk mixed with chocolate, or jalebis, deep fried rice flour coated in a sugary syrup, while they shop. “I want my customers to feel welcome and offering mithai is a way to show hospitality,” Mr. Alam said.

2018 January 17, Shivani Vora, “A Go-To Grocery for Indian Cooks”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A sweet popular in the Indian subcontinent, made by deep-frying a maida flour batter and soaking it in sugar syrup.


cake pop

cake pops (plural)
cake-pop (alternative)
cakepop (alternative)

Blend of cake + lollipop. Compare also cookie pop.

The holidays are one of my favorite times of the year to make cake pops.

2010, Bakerella, Cake Pops Holidays, Chronicle Books (2010), page 30

Before you start it's best to pierce the holes into the polystyrene block that will hold the cake pops.

2011, Molly Bakes, Crazy for Cake Pops: 50 All-New Delicious and Adorable Creations, Ulysses Press, →ISBN, page 38:

“Maybe this will cheer you up.” Paige whipped the cutest cellophane-wrapped cake pop out of her tote, decorated like a mini pumpkin all the way down to the stem.

2013, Tracy March, The Practice Proposal, Entangled Publishing, →ISBN:

A confection consisting of a round piece of cake coated in icing or chocolate and stuck on a stick in the manner of a lollipop.


Pontefract cake

Pontefract cake (plural Pontefract cakes)

From the Yorkshire town of the same name, Pontefract, where production of the sweets can be traced back to the 1500s.

A small, disc-shaped sweet with an impressed castle, made from locally grown liquorice.


hagelslag

There are also many types of sweet spreads. Dutch children are especially fond of hagelslag, small strands of milk or plain chocolate that are scattered onto white bread and butter.

1993, Christopher Hunt, “Food and drink”, in Focus on Holland, new edition, London: Evans Brothers Limited, →ISBN, page 12, columns 1–2:

When Karina Hof left her native New Amsterdam in 2003, she thought it would be just for a year. Two master’s degrees, two half-marathons, and too many boxes of hagelslag later, she’s still covering the Lowlands.

2011, “About Our Writers”, in Niels Carels, Karina Hof, Steve Korver, Steven McCarron, Ann Maher, Tim Skelton, Amsterdam & the Netherlands, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Fodor’s Travel Publications, →ISBN, →ISSN, column 1:

This is not a recipe, but an exercise in true happiness. Toast your bread and butter generously whilst it is still hot. Sprinkle with a thick layer of hagelslag (the De Ruijter brand is the best) and eat immediately.

2016, Michael Zee, “Ontbijt: A Dutch Breakfast”, in SymmetryBreakfast: Cook, Love, Share, London: Bantam Press, →ISBN, section 11 (Not Quite Continental: Norway, Italy, Austria, Algeria, Spain, The Netherlands, Denmark), page 203:

Small, oblong, sweet-tasting chocolate granules, which are sprinkled on slices of buttered bread or rusks.


Bustamante backbone

Named after Alexander Bustamante, Jamaican politician; the hard texture is supposed to symbolize his firmness of character.

(Jamaica) A hard confection made with grated coconut and ginger.


fios de ovos

/ˈfiːəʊz di ˈəʊvəʊz/

Borrowed from Portuguese fios de ovos (literally “egg threads”).

bor

A traditional Portuguese sweet food made of eggs (chiefly yolks), drawn into thin strands and boiled in sugar syrup.


lemon plait

I sucked "lemon plait" and I read and would not have changed places with an angel.

1913, Katharine Tynan, Twenty-five Years: Reminiscences, page 51:

[…] she sold lemon platt^([sic]).

1916 December 29, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC:

Jerry went for a thing called "lemon plait." He watched the dwindling supply with anguish, not strong enough to reach the counter in the fetid excitement of hungry boys. He had almost no pocket money, and chocolate was beyond him.

1936, Francis Hackett, The Green Lion, page 241:

[…] grander sugar stick such as Lemon Plait, that was two pieces plaited together and that had a nice sourish taste.

1957, Padraic Colum, The Flying Swans, page 141:

Lemon-flavoured sugar confection (candy, sweets, similar to barley sugar) in a plaited form.


Twix

Brand name, a blend of twin + sticks, since there are two biscuits of the product in each package.

Then—oh so casually—she was asked to select either a Twix bar or an apple, as thanks for her participation in the experiment.

2008, Cordelia Fine, A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives, page 173:

I even ate a Twix before bed each night, not once thinking about how many miles it would take me to run off the calories.

2015, Branch Kimball, My Eating Disorder: Thoughts During Sickness and Recovery:

A popular chocolate bar produced by the Mars company, consisting of two fingers of biscuit with other confectionery toppings and coatings (most frequently caramel and milk chocolate).


spoon sweet

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Fruit preserved in sugar syrup in the eastern Mediterranean, often served in a spoon as a gesture of hospitality.


white Christmas slice

en-noun

white Christmas slice (plural white Christmas slices)

This popular white Christmas slice has been given an Aussie flavour and named after the sulphur-crested cockatoo.

2006, R.I.C. Publications, An Aussie Christmas, page 46:

Describe the changes Cophaᵀᴹ (a shortening agent derived from coconut flesh) makes to the mixture when making White Christmas slice.

2008, Lee-Ann Holmes, Rhymes for big rascals, R.I.C. Publications, page 74:

This version is richer and creamier than regular White Christmas slice.

2011, Sally Wise, Leftover Makeovers: Quick and Fabulous Food From Your Fridge and Pantry, unnumbered page:

(Australia, cooking) A sweet food item made from dried fruits and nuts mixed with copha or white chocolate or similar sweet white binding and allowed to set in a tray to make slices.


circus peanut

A peanut-shaped flavored marshmallow candy.


Twizzler

Brand name, established in the 1920s, from twizzle + -er.

Drive-in Party. Lug the TV into the backyard, pop a couple of videos into the VCR, and serve popcorn, sodas, and Twizzlers.

1997, Kim Goad, Magic Moments: A Busy Woman's Guide to Forgotten Pleasures:

Fill cars with candy; link together with Twizzlers.

2002, Parents, volume 77, numbers 5-8, page 230:

(US, Canada) A kind of chewy candy in the form of long twists.


aluwa

A Sri Lankan sweet, made from rice flour or potatoes with treacle, cardamom and usually cashew nuts, and served in a flat cookie-like form. It is similar to halva.


granola bar

From granola + bar. Attested since the late twentieth century.

John Herrick, chairman of the board of General Mills Canada Ltd. which makes Nature Valley Granola Bars, said you need a little sugar for energy. If you took the sugar out of everything, life would be very dull.

1978 July 29, “Nutritionists say granola bars too high in sugar to be snacks”, in The Globe and Mail, →ISSN, page 12:

If your mental image of a granola bar is a dry, crunchy, relatively tasteless blend of rolled oats and a few raisins, you haven't stopped by the ever-expanding snack bar section lately.

1985 July 1, Martin Friedman, “New Product Watch”, in Adweek, page 22:

Let's compare a candy bar and a granola bar. A chocolate bar with almonds (1 1/2-ounce size) has 18 grams of sugar, and a granola bar has 6 grams of sugar.

2004, Naomi Neufeld, KidShape: A Practical Prescription for Raising Healthy, Fit Children, page 94:

Granola bars, breakfast bars and cereal bars, which are referred to collectively as "snack bars," are part of a food category that's grown 5 per cent a year since 2005 and is worth an estimated $720-million in Canada

2010 December 12, Carly Weeks, “Granola bars: A healthy snack or dressed-up junk food?”, in The Globe and Mail:

A confection consisting of granola and sweeteners pressed and baked into a bar shape.

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confection of granola and sweetener pressed into a bar shape


almond paste

A type of confection made from ground almonds and sugar in equal quantities, bound with some syrup or other similar substance in order to form a paste.

مَعْجُون لَوْز

paste made from ground almonds and sugar in equal quantities


tanghulu

A traditional Chinese snack of candied fruit.


modak

modak (countable and uncountable, plural modaks)

Borrowed from Hindi and Marathi मोदक (modak).

bor+

She serves the prasad, small cone-shaped bright-yellow modaks that they eat whole after touching to their foreheads to absorb god's blessing.

2023, Santanu Bhattacharya, One Small Voice, Fig Tree, page 181:

An Indian sweet consisting of a flour-based outer skin filled with coconut and jaggery.


dragon's beard candy

Calque from Chinese 龍鬚糖／龙须糖 (lóngxūtáng).

zh-l

龍鬚糖／龙须糖 (lóngxūtáng)

A traditional Chinese sweet similar to halva or cotton candy made from fine white sugar, peanuts, desiccated coconut, white sesame seeds, corn syrup and glutinous rice flour.


popping candy

Small pieces of hard confectionery that create a popping reaction when they dissolve in the mouth.


conversation lozenge

en-noun

conversation lozenge (plural conversation lozenges)

(UK, archaic) A form of confectionery consisting of a sweet lozenge with a flirtatious message printed on it.


Kit Kat

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Brand name. Originally trademarked by the Rowntree's company in 1911. Apparently named after the Kit-Cat Club, which got its name from a local pastry chef, Christopher Catt/Catling (sources differ on the surname), who was nicknamed “Kit” and supplied the club with meat pies that he called “Kit-Cats”.

I looked around, visited a few more booths, and filled the free laminated folder I got from Scholastic with pencil erasers and tiny Kit Kats. Heavy with “gifts,” I decided to head home.

2013, Iris Smyles, Iris Has Free Time, Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, →ISBN, page 11:

A chocolate-covered wafer bar confection produced by Nestlé and Hershey.


breath mint

A mint-flavored candy intended to freshen the breath.


salty licorice

salty licorice (countable and uncountable, plural salty licorices)

salty licorices (plural)
salty liquorice (alternative British Ireland)

From the salty taste; compare Swedish saltlakrits.

A variety of licorice flavored with ammonium chloride; a common confectionery in parts of Europe.


brandy ball

And yet I discovered, when a frequently recurring fit of sickness had forced Job to keep a strict look-out, that this unprincipled old man was in the habit of enticing the boy to his rooms and there feeding him upon unlimited quantities of brandy-balls, and making him promise to say nothing about it.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

A traditional boiled sweet like a bullseye, flavoured with peppermint, cinnamon, etc.


catànies

Crema Catalana is used in stuffed fruits, such as Peres de Lleida, pears from Lleida, one of the oldest towns in Catalonia; Catànies, Catalan marcona sweetened almonds; Mató de Pedralbes, a Catalan cream treat from Barcelona; Manjar blanco, a Spanish blancmange eaten throughout the Spanish-speaking world; and Xuixos, a deep-fried custard-filled cylindrical pastry.

2014, Timothy G. Roufs Ph.D., Kathleen Smyth Roufs, Sweet Treats Around the World: An Encyclopedia of Food and Culture:

Other sweet treats include catànies, chocolate-covered Catalan almonds, nutty galetas (biscuits), melindros (ladyfingers) and many varieties of torró (nougat).

2017, Insight Guides, Experience Barcelona:

The rest of the dinner went on with a tense normality and, as soon as we had our catànies and coffee, we said goodbye to the family, alluding to the fact that we had to get up early in the morning.

2020, Miquel Àngel Lopezosa Criado, p53: The Molecule of Life:

A Catalan sweet made from almonds coated in caramel and powdered chocolate.


dalgona

dalgona (countable and uncountable, plural dalgonas)

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An Yong-hui, a Seoul street vendor who made the dalgonas – a honeycomb biscuit featured in the drama, told Reuters that fans start queueing outside his street kitchen at 11am, and he now sells 500 a day, compared with his pre-Squid Game sale of 200. […] Girls buying dalgonas in Seoul – Squid Game has boosted business for the street vendors who sell them.

2021 October 10, Edward Helmore, “You’ve seen the gory Squid Game TV show? Now buy the tracksuit…”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-10-10:

The dalgona candy, featured in episode three of the show, was handmade by a group of candymakers in Seoul, which goes by the name of Segyero Dalgona. The street vendor has been making dalgona candies for eight years near the Hyehwa subway station, and provided 700 dalgonas to "Squid Game."

2021 October 20, Chae Young Oh, Shihoo Lee, “'Squid Game' dalgona candy is world’s newest and sweetest trend”, in ABC News, archived from the original on 2021-10-20:

Dalgonas are a Korean candy that have been integrated and popularized into coffee drinks.

2022 April 21, Norman M. Taruc, “Experience the atmosphere at Elevenses cafes”, in The Guam Daily Post, archived from the original on 2022-04-21:

A Korean sweet made of sugar and baking soda, usually pressed flat and stamped with a shape.


pastila

pastila (usually uncountable, plural pastilas)

Borrowed from Russian пастила́ (pastilá), itself from either French pastille or Italian pastiglia. Doublet of pastegh, pastel, pastiglia, pastilla, and pastille.

doublet

A traditional Russian confectionery made of fruit paste, together with egg whites and sugar. Depending on which regional recipe is used, the consistency can vary from that of a soufflé (as in Belyov) to that of a zefir/marshmallow (as in Kolomna).


seaside rock

A type of confectionery made from sugar in the shape of a stick; rock.


ingberlach

/ˈɪŋbə(ɹ)lɑːx/

From Yiddish אינגבערלעך (ingberlekh), from אינגבער (ingber, “ginger”).

An Ashkenazi Jewish confection made with honey and ginger.


chocolate teacake

en-noun

chocolate teacake (plural chocolate teacakes)

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[…] three years later, Marks & Spencer mounted a similar case over their chocolate teacakes (a mound of marshmallow on a chocolate biscuit, covered in milk chocolate) which they took all the way to the European Court of Justice.

2010 May 15, Nicola Humble, Cake: A Global History, Reaktion Books, →ISBN, page 29:

Ras El Abed is a cheap, Lebanese variation on the chocolate teacake. It is a chocolate covered, cream filled treat that has been popular among generations of Lebanese children since the fifties. The actual meaning of Ras El Abed is 'head of a slave' and […]

2020 August 20, A. Naji Bakhti, Between Beirut and the Moon, Influx Press, →ISBN:

A confection consisting of a biscuit base topped with marshmallow-like filling and coated in a hard shell of chocolate.

but see суфле́ в шокола́де

as which the industrial versions of European countries are traded; sometimes denotes a similar confection or a kind of tart instead


milk sweet

milk sweet (countable and uncountable, plural milk sweets)


pustakari

pustakari (usually uncountable, plural pustakaris)

bor

Nepali पुष्टकारी (puṣṭakārī)

The department on May 10 had proposed for the quality determination on four food items—beaten rice, pustakari, dalmoth and gudpak and set a maximum limit of total polar material on vegetable ghee and oil.

2020 August 17, Krishana Prasain, “Government sets quality standards for four traditional Nepali snacks and vegetable oil”, in The Kathmandu Post:

A Nepali form of candy made from molasses, cooked with ghee and milk and topped with coconut, dates, or nuts.


gudpak

Special foods may be given during the postnatal period: kwati (beans and meat), dahi-chura (curd and beaten rice with curry meat), and gudpak (a sweet cake, rich in calories made with flour, clarified butter, cashews, and coconut).

2019, Melva Craft-Blacksheare, “Transcultural Perspectives in Childbearing”, in Margaret Andrews, Joyceen S. Boyle, John Collins, editors, Transcultural Concepts in Nursing Care, 8th edition, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN:

A cake-like Nepali sweet made with coconut and nuts.


krembo

From Hebrew קְרֶמְבּוֹ (krembo), from קְרֵם (k'rem, “cream”) + בּוֹ (bo, “in it”). The name was coined by the first manufacturer, the Whitman Company.

My choice to substitute an Israeli sweet for a British sweet was regarded by some with derision. At the same time others, familiar with both Israeli and British cultures, have applauded this same choice, agreeing with me that sherbet lemons and krembos have similar cultural significance: sweets holding a particularly strong association to childishness.

2014, Gili Bar-Hillel, “Bridging the Gastronomical Divide in Translating Children’s Literature”, in Bridget Carrington, Jennifer Harding, editors, Feast or Famine? Food and Children’s Literature, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, pages 209–210:

Dip chilled krembos in the chocolate (or just get messy and pour it on top) and sprinkle with extra pistachios.

2016, Amy Kritzer, “[Latkes, Egg Creams, Kugel, and More!] Pistachio-Chocolate Krembos”, in Sweet Noshings: New Twists on Traditional Jewish Desserts (What Jew Wanna Eat), New York, N.Y.: Rock Point, Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc., →ISBN, page 87:

Substitute white chocolate for the bittersweet chocolate, and finish the krembos with more crumbled dehydrated raspberries and some optional chopped unsalted pistachios.

2016 October, Uri Scheft with Raquel Pelzel, “[Sweets & Cookies] Raspberry Krembos”, in Breaking Breads: A New World of Israeli Baking, New York, N.Y.: Artisan, →ISBN, page 300:

You’d be forgiven for skipping dessert, but Engel makes that a difficult decision, especially with the two-bite, $3 krembo (chocolate-encased marshmallow atop sesame shortbread), which is essentially a moon pie with ambition.

2019 June 19, Phil Vettel, “A Middle Eastern masterpiece from James Beard-winning chef”, in Chicago Tribune, 172nd year, number 170, Chicago, Ill., →ISSN, section 6 (Food & Dining), page 6, column 4:

The chocolate krembos, reminiscent of a deluxe Mallomar, are a must.

2023 February 8, Joshua Jongsma, “Super Bowl essentials: Your ultimate food guide for North Jersey”, in Herald News, Woodland Park, N.J., page 2LF, column 4:


meetha paan

Unadapted borrowing from Hindi मीठा पान (mīṭhā pān, “sweet betel”), from मीठा (mīṭhā, “sweet, gentle”) + पान (pān, “betel leaf, paan”).

compound

A dessert or other sweet made with betel leaf, such as betel ice cream.


sour worm

A sweet-and-sour confectionery made of gelatin and often, but not always, in the shape of a toy worm.


black licorice

en-noun

black licorice (countable and uncountable, plural black licorices)

black licorices (plural)
black liquorice (alternative UK)

The traditional type of licorice candy which is primarily flavored with licorice, in contrast to red licorice which has a primary flavor such as strawberry or cinnamon.


rewari

rewaris (plural)
revadi (alternative)
revari (alternative)
revdi (alternative)
revri (alternative)
rewadi (alternative)
rewdi (alternative)
rewri (alternative)

A small, round sweet made of jaggery and sesame seeds.


milksicle

Originally a brand name (from milk and popsicle or -sicle); see citations.