A sweet food, a confection (perhaps containing peony seeds).

A dish or confection flavoured with hawthorn flowers.

A sweetmeat consisting of toast spread with hot spiced honey.

Designating a confection or drink in which strawberries are an ingredient or flavouring, as †strawberry ale, strawberry water, strawberry wine; straw…

Perhaps: millet; a kind of cake or bread made with millet.

The dried bodies of scale insects (females of Kermes ilicis and K. vermilio, family Kermesidae), found in the Mediterranean region on the kermes oak…

a species of confectionery.

Applied to various things or substances having the colour or appearance of snow. Cookery. A dish or confection resembling snow in appearance, esp…

A confection made with butter, eggs, and cheese.

a cold dessert, resembling a trifle, consisting of layers of sliced manchet (manchet, n. 1a) and spiced custard, with a decorative sweet topping…

A dessert consisting of mashed or pureed fruit mixed with custard or (now typically) whipped cream, and served cold. Originally in gooseberry fool, n.…

Originally: a creamy chocolate dessert, typically made by boiling milk with sugar, eggs, chocolate, and sometimes other ingredients; cf. cream, n.2…

A light mixture of stiffly beaten egg whites and sugar, baked until crisp; a shell or other item of confectionery made of this mixture, typically…

a cream (cream, n.2 2a) fashioned into a form pointed at the top.

A light confection of sponge cake or the like, esp. flavoured with wine or spirit, and served with custard and whipped cream.

Cookery. One or other of various dishes or confections intended to resemble a ball of snow in appearance.

A sweet-tasting bread, pastry, cake, or biscuit. Cf. pan dulce, n.

= meringue, n.1

A kind of Italian meringue, probably formed into a shape suggesting that of a meteor. Obsolete.

A kind of confectionery or sweet pastry.

More fully Nesselrode cream, Nesselrode pie, Nesselrode pudding. An iced dessert made with chestnuts, cream, preserved fruits, etc., and…

A dish composed of fruit and meringue.

a type of trifle.

Cookery. (See quot. 1909: perhaps only as French.)

(a) a type of confectionery or dessert made or flavoured with coconut; (b) thick coconut milk which has a cream-like consistency (cf. coconut milk n.…

A rich confection originating in Siena, Italy, containing nuts (properly almonds), candied peel, honey, and spices baked to form a hard, round, flat…

In Japanese cookery: a jellied dessert or confection made typically from a thick red-bean paste, sugar, and agar, formed into a solid block and eaten…

A conical or cup-shaped confection, frequently frozen. Also attributive.

a dessert consisting of whipped cream, pieces of meringue, and fruit (typically strawberries), traditionally associated with Eton College.

a meringue filled with Chantilly cream. Also meringue à la Chantilly. Also figurative.

A crumb-like topping for cakes and pastries made from fat, flour, cinnamon, and sugar; a confection with such a topping. Frequently attributive…

Originally U.S. Also with capital initials. A flavour of ice cream, or type of cake, dessert, or confectionery, typically made with a mixture of…

A kind of candied confection. Also figurative.

a superior grade of crystallized or preserved ginger.

Originally in South American (esp. Argentinian) cuisine: sweet, caramelized milk, often served as a spread or sauce.

A sweet dish made from fruit juice mixed with sugar and water, which is boiled and thickened with potato or cornflour.

A dessert or snack consisting of toasted marshmallows and chocolate between graham crackers; = s'more, n.2

= cranachan, n. (cf. crowdie, n. 2).

Originally Pavlova cake. A dessert consisting of a soft-centred meringue base or shell filled with whipped cream and fruit (sometimes with other…

A dessert or snack consisting of toasted marshmallows and chocolate sandwiched between graham crackers, typically served outdoors, with the…

A dessert typically made with whipped cream, whisky, oatmeal, honey, and berries (esp. raspberries).

a delicacy made by pouring hot maple syrup on snow (snow, n.1 5a).

An item of confectionery shaped to resemble a human skull, made for or associated with the Mexican celebration, Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead).

a kind of dessert made with suji.

A confection of meringue and whipped cream.

Soup. Usually in combinations, esp. as zuppa di pesce/ˈpɛʃʃe/, fish soup. Also transferred and figurative in zuppa inglese/inˈɡleze/, a rich trifle.

A dessert of custard topped with caramelized sugar; = crème brûlée n. at crème, n. compounds.

= pavlova, n.

Any of various rich desserts typically featuring a thick layer of mousse or light, creamy filling. Frequently with modifying word indicating the…

attributive. Designating any of various desserts consisting of bananas and soft toffee (made with caramelized condensed milk); originally and…

A confection consisting of two small, round (usually colourful) biscuits with a meringue-like consistency, made with egg white, sugar, and powdered…

= Nanaimo bar n. at compounds. rare.

A confection consisting of two small, round (usually colourful) biscuits with a meringue-like consistency, made with egg white, sugar, and…