Candy

🇪🇨Ecuador

Bocadillo

An Ecuadorian sweet of panela and coconut cut into firm, sugary squares. Chewy, pale and often served at festivals and markets.

🇦🇷Argentina

Bolanchao

A sweet from Santiago del Estero made from mistol fruit, shaped into balls and dried. A rustic, pre-Hispanic sweet of the Chaco, eaten as a snack or with mate.

🇲🇬Madagascar

Bonbon Coco

Grated coconut cooked with caramelised sugar until it stiffens, then dropped in spoonfuls to set into chewy patties.

🇲🇬Madagascar

Bononoka

A Malagasy coconut sweet set into small chewy pieces for tea and celebrations.

🇮🇩East Java, Indonesia

Brem Madiun

Brem Madiun is a dry, airy East Javanese rice-wine confection that dissolves on the tongue.

🇨🇴Colombia

Brevas con Arequipe

A Colombian dessert of preserved figs (brevas) in syrup with arequipe (dulce de leche). A classic sweet-salty contrast, served with cheese.

🇵🇹Portugal

Brisas do lis

Brisas do lis is a Portuguese sweet from Leiria, shaped as a candy and finished with its characteristic sugar, nut, or egg filling.

🇵🇭Philippines

Bukayo

Bukayo is chewy coconut strips cooked in caramelised sugar and shaped into a Filipino sweet snack.

🇯🇲Jamaica

Bustamante Backbone

Grated coconut boiled hard with dark sugar and ginger and set into a brittle slab, named for a famously tough prime minister.

🇧🇬Thrace, Bulgaria

Byalo Sladko

Бяло сладко

A spoon sweet of nothing but sugar, water, lemon and a drop of mastic or vanilla, whipped opaque white and eaten off the spoon with cold water.

🇵🇦Panama

Cabanga

A Panamanian sweet of grated coconut, green papaya, and honey, cooked and cut into bars, a breakfast and coffee classic

🇲🇽Mexico

Cajeta

A thick caramel spread made by slowly cooking sweetened goat's milk until rich, brown, and deeply flavored.

🇧🇷Brazil

Cajuzinho

A peanut and condensed milk truffle shaped like a small cashew, coated in sugar and topped with a cashew nut, a classic Brazilian party sweet.

🇫🇷France

Calisson

Calisson is a French almond-and-candied-fruit confection traditionally shaped as a small lozenge.

🇺🇸United States

Candied Apples

Whole apples dipped in a hard, glossy red candy shell on a stick — a fall fair staple.

🇨🇳Beijing, China

Candied Hawthorn Skewers

糖葫芦

Hawthorn berries threaded on a bamboo stick and dipped in molten sugar that sets to a glass shell.

🇬🇹Guatemala

Canillitas de Leche

A Guatemalan milk candy, creamy and sweet, shaped like small sticks, a daily and candy classic

🇺🇸United States

Caramel rolls

Soft yeast rolls baked in a sticky brown-sugar and caramel glaze, often with pecans.

🇲🇹Malta

Carob Sweets

Karamelli tal-ħarrub

Hard boiled sweets made from carob syrup, traditionally sucked during Lent when other sweets were given up.

🇹🇷Mersin, Turkey

Cezerye

Cezerye, the carrot-and-nut jelly confection of Mersin, is sold by name in its own shops.

🇰🇿Kazakhstan

Chak Chak

Чак-чак

Tatar fried-dough mound tossed in honey and piled like a pinecone, crisp outside and syrup-soaked within; wedding-table centrepiece in Kazan.

🇳🇵Nepal

Chaku

चाकु

Sugarcane or palm jaggery is reduced into a dark, chewy Nepali confection, often shaped with sesame or nuts.

🇮🇳India

Chikki

चिक्की

Peanuts or other nuts are set in hot jaggery syrup and cut into brittle bars in western India.

🇬🇹Guatemala

Chilacayote

A Guatemalan candied chilacayote squash in sugar syrup, crystallized outside and soft inside, a daily and candy classic

🇧🇩Tangail, Bangladesh

Chomchom

চমচম

Oval chhena sweet boiled in syrup until it takes a deep tan colour, denser and chewier than roshogolla, often rolled in dried milk.

🇭🇺Hungary

Christmas Candy

Szaloncukor

Christmas Candy is a chocolate-covered fondant candies hung on Hungarian Christmas tree.

🇨🇱Iquique, Chile

Chumbeque

A northern Chilean layered sweet made from thin baked dough, syrup or fruit filling, and aromatic citrus, spice, or seed notes.

🇹🇷Turkey

Churchkhela

Ჩურჩხელა

Walnuts or hazelnuts threaded on a string and dipped repeatedly in thickened grape must until they build a firm candle-shaped coating.

🇮🇳India

Churma

चूरमा

A sweet Rajasthani dish of crushed baati or wheat flour mixed with ghee and jaggery or sugar. Served with dal baati.

🇻🇳Vietnam

Chè lam (Sticky Rice Ginger Peanut Bars)

Chè lam

Che lam is not a sweet soup at all but a chewy ginger-peanut sticky-rice bar cut into slabs — the name collision with the che family is exactly the trap guideline 2 warns about.

🇧🇷Brazil

Cocada

A chewy coconut sweet of grated coconut and sugar, cooked until golden and cut into squares or diamonds. Found across Brazil in many regional styles, from white and soft to brown and sticky.

🇪🇨Ecuador

Cocada

An Ecuadorian coconut candy with milk, sugar, and cinnamon

🇨🇴Colombia

Cocadas

A Panamanian coconut ball with raspadura, condensed milk, and cinnamon, baked until golden, a Holy Week and daily classic.

🇬🇵Guadeloupe

Coconut Candy

Bonbon Coco

Coconut candy; a traditional Guadeloupean sweet; made with coconut, sugar, and vanilla; the bonbon coco that is a Guadeloupean confection.

🇬🇺Guam

Coconut Candy

Lamot Niyok

Chamorro coconut candy cooks grated coconut with sugar until the mixture sets into chewy, fragrant pieces that keep well.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Coconut Candy

Grated coconut cooked with sugar and a little milk until it caramelises, then dried into hard chewy pieces.