candy
Noun
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A rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts (synset 107612936)
is a type of: confection, sweet - a food rich in sugarsubtypes:
- candy bar - a candy shaped as a bar
- carob bar - a bar of candy made with carob powder
- hard candy - candy that is brittle
- brandyball - a British candy flavored with brandy
- patty - round flat candy
- bonbon - a candy that usually has a center of fondant or fruit or nuts coated in chocolate
- brittle, toffee, toffy - caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets
- butterscotch - a hard brittle candy made with butter and brown sugar
- candy cane - a hard candy in the shape of a rod (usually with stripes)
- candy corn - a small yellow and white candy shaped to resemble a kernel of corn
- caramel - firm chewy candy made from caramelized sugar and butter and milk
- candyfloss, cotton candy, spun sugar - a candy made by spinning sugar that has been boiled to a high temperature
- dragee - sugar-coated nut or fruit piece
- dragee - silvery candy beads used for decorating cakes
- fondant - candy made of a thick creamy sugar paste
- fudge - soft creamy candy
- gumdrop - a jellied candy coated with sugar crystals
- honey crisp - a crisp candy made with honey
- mint, mint candy - a candy that is flavored with a mint oil
- horehound - a candy that is flavored with an extract of the horehound plant
- jelly bean, jelly egg - sugar-glazed jellied candy
- candy kiss, kiss - any of several bite-sized candies
- licorice, liquorice - a black candy flavored with the dried root of the licorice plant
- life saver - a candy shaped like a small lifesaver
- all-day sucker, lollipop, sucker - hard candy on a stick
- lozenge - a small aromatic or medicated candy
- marshmallow - spongy confection made of gelatin and sugar and corn syrup and dusted with powdered sugar
- marchpane, marzipan - almond paste and egg whites
- nougat - nuts or fruit pieces in a sugar paste
- nougat bar - a bar of nougat candy often dipped in chocolate
- nut bar - paste of nuts and sugar on a pastry base cut into bars
- peanut bar - bar of peanuts in taffy
- popcorn ball - popcorn combined with a thick sugar or molasses or caramel syrup and formed into balls
- praline - cookie-sized candy made of brown sugar and butter and pecans
- rock candy - sugar in large hard clear crystals on a string
- rock, rock candy - hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint)
- sugar candy - made by boiling pure sugar until it hardens
- sugarplum - any of various small sugary candies
- taffy - chewy candy of sugar or syrup boiled until thick and pulled until glossy
- chocolate truffle, truffle - creamy chocolate candy
- turkish delight - a jellied candy typically flavored with rose water
- easter egg - an egg-shaped candy used to celebrate Easter
same as: confect
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