confection
Other forms: confections; confectioned; confectioning
A confection is a food loaded with sugar. Chocolate layer cake, strawberry lollipops, and vanilla bonbons are all confections. Yum!
Do you have a sweet tooth? Then you love confections, which are sweet treats such as cakes and candies and all manner of food that’s full of sugary deliciousness. The candy aisle is loaded with confections. Bakeries sell confections too, like cupcakes. A confection is almost always a delicious dessert. Just make sure you eat your vegetables before you eat any confections!
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a food rich in sugarsynonyms: sweettypes:confectionerycandy and other sweets considered collectivelyconfiturepreserved or candied fruitsweetmeata sweetened delicacy (as a preserve or pastry)hardbakea British sweet made with molasses and butter and almondscandied apple, candy apple, caramel apple, taffy apple, toffee applean apple that is covered with a candy-like substance (usually caramelized sugar)center, centrethe sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other coveringcomfitcandy containing a fruit or nutnonpareilcolored beads of sugar used as a topping on e.g. candies and cookiescandy bara candy shaped as a barcarob bara bar of candy made with carob powderhard candycandy that is brittlebrandyballa British candy flavored with brandypattyround flat candybonbona candy that usually has a center of fondant or fruit or nuts coated in chocolategum balla ball of chewing gum with a coating of colored sugarbubble guma kind of chewing gum that can be blown into bubblesbutterscotcha hard brittle candy made with butter and brown sugarcandied fruit, crystallized fruit, succadefruit cooked in sugar syrup and encrusted with a sugar crystalscandy canea hard candy in the shape of a rod (usually with stripes)candy corna small yellow and white candy shaped to resemble a kernel of corncaramelfirm chewy candy made from caramelized sugar and butter and milkcandyfloss, cotton candy, spun sugara candy made by spinning sugar that has been boiled to a high temperaturedrageesugar-coated nut or fruit piecedrageesilvery candy beads used for decorating cakesfondantcandy made of a thick creamy sugar pastefudgesoft creamy candygumdropa jellied candy coated with sugar crystalshoney crispa crisp candy made with honeyhorehounda candy that is flavored with an extract of the horehound plantlicorice, liquoricea candy flavored with the dried root of the licorice plant (usually black or red)Life Savera candy shaped like a small lifesaverlozengea small aromatic or medicated candymarshmallowspongy confection made of gelatin and sugar and corn syrup and dusted with powdered sugarnougatnuts or fruit pieces in a sugar pastenougat bara bar of nougat candy often dipped in chocolatenut barpaste of nuts and sugar on a pastry base cut into barspeanut barbar of peanuts in taffypopcorn ballpopcorn combined with a thick sugar or molasses or caramel syrup and formed into ballspralinecookie-sized candy made of brown sugar and butter and pecansrock candysugar in large hard clear crystals on a stringsugar candymade by boiling pure sugar until it hardenssugarplumany of various small sugary candiestaffychewy candy of sugar or syrup boiled until thick and pulled until glossyTurkish Delighta jellied candy typically flavored with rose waterEaster eggan egg-shaped candy used to celebrate Easter
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make into a confectiontype of:assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack togethercreate by putting components or members together
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the act of creating something (a medicine or drink or soup etc.) by compounding or mixing a variety of componentssynonyms: concoctiontype of:creating from raw materialsthe act of creating something that is different from the materials that went into it
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