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- 3. "Peeps" (a trade name), circus peanuts, fluffy puff, etc.
- 5. An almond-based confection, doughy in consistency, served in several different ways.
- 7. a confection made by caramelizing sugar or molasses (creating inverted sugar) along with butter, and occasionally flour.
- 11. a food made from roasted and ground cacao seed kernels that is available as a liquid, solid, or paste, either on its own or as a flavoring agent in other foods.
- 14. A candy that is folded many times above 50 °C, incorporating air bubbles thus reducing its density and making it opaque.
- 16. sugar cooked to the soft stage
- 20. Frozen, flavoured cream, often containing small pieces of chocolate, fruits and/or nuts.
- 21. a broader term that encompasses a range of sugary foods, including candy
- 22. Including those based on sugar and starch, pectin, gum, or gelatin such as Turkish delight (lokum), jelly beans, gumdrops, jujubes, gummies, etc.
- 23. A crumbly milk-based soft and hard candy, based on sugars cooked to the soft ball stage. Comes in several forms, such as wafers and heart shapes. Not to be confused with tableting, a method of candy production.
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- 1. Bite-sized confectioneries generally made with chocolate.
- 2. A toffee-like food delicacy popular in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines
- 4. Containing extract of the liquorice root. Chewier and more resilient than gum/gelatin candies, but still designed for swallowing. For example, Liquorice allsorts. Has a similar taste to star anise.
- 6. A nougat-like confectionery based on egg whites with chopped nuts.
- 8. Prepared from a warm mixture of glucose syrup and sucrose, which is partially crystallized. The fineness of the crystallites results in a creamy texture.
- 9. digestive aids that are sweet, elaborate creations
- 10. Sugar-coated almonds and other types of sugar panned candy.
- 12. Confectionery based on tahini, a paste made from ground sesame seeds.
- 13. Based on sugars cooked to the hard-crack stage. Examples include suckers (known as boiled sweets in British English), lollipops, jawbreakers (or gobstoppers), lemon drops, peppermint drops and disks, candy canes, rock candy, etc. Also included are types often mixed with nuts such as brittle. Others contain flavorings including coffee such as Kopiko.
- 15. Made by boiling milk and sugar to the soft-ball stage. In the US, it tends to be chocolate-flavored.
- 17. Derived from a mixture of sucrose, glucose syrup, and milk products. The mixture does not crystallize, thus remains tacky.
- 18. A generic term for confectionery in India, typically made from dairy products and/or some form of flour. Sugar or molases are used as sweeteners.
- 19. types of hard candies, usually consisting of flavored sugar with molasses or corn syrup