confection
noun
°A food item prepared very sweet, frequently decorated in fine detail, and often preserved with sugar, such as a candy, sweetmeat, fruit preserve, pastry, cake or the like.
"The table was covered with all sorts of tempting confections."
°The act or process of confecting; the process of making, compounding, or preparing something.
verb
°To make into a confection, prepare as a confection.