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🍖 Rich sauce ✨ Shiny surface 🍒 Sugared fruit 🍯 To coat with syrup
glace

glace

7.7
Fruit or nuts coated in sugar syrup to preserve and sweeten them
  • noun
  • /ɡleɪs/
translation icon : fruta confitada
  • The chef prepared a beautiful glace of cherries for the dessert.
  • glace cherries

Examples

  • The cake was beautifully decorated with glace fruits that glistened under the light.

  • Can you pass the glace for the fruit salad?

  • She decorated the cake with bright red glace cherries.

  • The bakery sells a variety of glace fruits, including apricots and pears.

  • He enjoyed a handful of glace almonds as a sweet treat after dinner.

  • For dessert, we enjoyed a tart topped with shiny glace cherries.

  • The chef used glace pears to enhance the flavor and presentation of the dish.

Synonyms

confection
vsglace
8 3.7

Sweet food like candy or a small cake

is a specific preserved sweet, not the broad category of sugary treats
candied fruit
vsglace
1 2.7

Fruit cooked in sugar syrup and coated in sugar for a sweet treat

is broader, applying also to nuts and glazed rather than only crystal coated
crystallized fruit
vsglace
  • US
3.4

Fruit cooked in sugar syrup and coated with sugar

also covers nuts and items with a sugar glaze not only crystal coating

Compounds

demi-glace
7.7

A rich brown sauce cooks make by boiling meat broth until it is thick, often served with meat like steak

How Glazed

glace
7.7
fresh foods
1 1.0

Surface Forms

glace singular
glaces plural

Etymology

Glace for candied fruit or nuts comes from French and Latin glacies 'ice'. Candy covered in sugar looks hard and shiny like ice, so these sweet, glazed treats are called glace.