Candy making
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Candy making is the preparation and cookery of candies and sugar confections. Candy making includes the preparation of many various candies, such as hard candies, jelly beans, gumdrops, taffy, liquori
Hot liquid candy being poured into candy molds by a candymaker
Candy being panned (coated) in a giant pot at a candy factory in Nablus, Palestine
Fruit-shaped hard candy
The bowl of a cotton candy machine
Confectionery
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Confectionery is the art of making confections, or sweet foods. Confections are items that are rich in sugar and carbohydrates, although exact definitions are difficult. In general, however, confectio
This krokan is a traditional Swedish baker's confection.
Confectionery can be mass-produced in a factory.
Some Indian confectionery desserts from hundreds of varieties. In certain parts of India, these are called mithai or sweets. Sugar and desserts have a long history in India: by about 500 BCE, people in India had developed the technology to produce sugar crystals. In the local language, these crystals were called khanda (खण्ड), which is the source of the word candy.
Jordan almonds. Sugar-coated nuts or spices for non-medicinal purposes marked the beginning of confectionery in late medieval England.