Encrusted with sugar or syrup:
— Candied grapefruit peel.

synonym: sugar-coated.

Roget 396: sweet; saccharine, sacchariferous^†; dulcet, candied, honied^†, luscious, lush, nectarious^†, melliferous^†; sweetened etc. v.. sweet as a nut, sweet as sugar, sweet as honey.    sickly sweet.    ... show more

used especially of fruits Preserved by coating with or allowing to absorb sugar.

synonyms: crystalised, crystalized, glace.

A rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts.

synonym: confect.

Roget 396: sweetness, dulcitude^†.    sugar, syrup, treacle, molasses, honey, manna; confection, confectionary; sweets, grocery, conserve, preserve, confiture^†, jam, julep; sugar-candy, sugar-plum; licorice, marmalade, plum, lollipop, bonbon, jujube, comfit, sweetmeat; apple butter, caramel, damson, glucose; maple sirup^†, maple syrup, maple sugar; mithai^†, sorghum, taffy.    nectar; hydromel^†, mead, meade^†, metheglin^†, honeysuckle, liqueur, sweet wine, aperitif.    [sources of sugar] sugar cane, sugar beets.    [sweet foods] desert, pastry, pie, cake, candy, ice cream, tart, puff, pudding (food) 298.    dulcification^†, dulcoration^†.    sweetener, corn syrup, cane sugar, refined sugar, beet sugar, dextrose; artificial sweetener, saccharin, cyclamate, aspartame, Sweet'N Low.    ... show more

Dutch: snoep
Polish: cukierek

Coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze.

synonyms: glaze, sugarcoat.

Roget 321: be dense etc. adj.; become solid, render solid etc. adj.; solidify, solidate^†; concrete, set, take a set, consolidate, congeal, coagulate; curd, curdle; lopper; fix, clot, cake, candy, precipitate, deposit, cohere, crystallize; petrify etc. (harden) 323.    condense, thicken, gel, inspissate^†, incrassate^†; compress, squeeze, ram down, constipate.    ... show more

Roget 396: be sweet etc. adj.. render sweet etc. adj.; sweeten; edulcorate^†; dulcorate^†, dulcify^†; candy; mull.