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candymaking

candymaking

3.3
The activity of making sweets such as chocolate and hard candy
  • noun
  • /ˈkændiˌmeɪkɪŋ/
  • US
translation icon : fabricación de dulces
  • Many students enrolled in the candymaking workshop to learn how to create various types of sweets.

Examples

  • She took a class in candymaking to learn how to create chocolate truffles.

  • His passion for candymaking began when he was a child helping in the kitchen.

  • Traditional candymaking requires careful attention to temperature and timing.

  • I enjoy candymaking during the holidays.

  • She learned candymaking from her grandmother.

  • She decided to start a business based on candymaking to share her love for homemade chocolates.

  • After years of practice, he finally mastered the art of candymaking and opened his own candy shop.

Synonyms

confectionery
vscandymaking
1 3.2

To make sweets and cakes as a job

is the same trade but focused on a single sweet product

Surface Forms

candymaking singular
candymakings plural

Morphology

candymaking = candy + making (transparent) = candy + making

The meaning is directly the process of making candy and follows the clear compound structure 'candy' + 'making'.

Etymology

Candymaking comes from the word candy, which itself comes from an old Persian or Arabic word qand meaning 'sugar' or 'sugar lump', plus making meaning 'making'. So candymaking is simply the process of making sweets or sugar treats.