Candy vs. Toffee — What's the Difference?

A sweet food made primarily of sugar.

A hard, chewy sweet made by caramelizing sugar with butter.

Confections that include ingredients like chocolate, fruits, and nuts.

A candy that often sticks to the teeth, enjoyed slowly.

Small pieces of sweetened flavorings, often enjoyed as snacks.

A traditional sweet particularly popular in the UK.

A dessert option often given as a treat or gift.

Often combined with nuts or coated in chocolate.

A term used to describe something that is appealingly superficial.

Known for its rich, caramel flavor and brittle texture.

Candy, also called sweets (British English) or lollies (Australian English, New Zealand English), is a confection that features sugar as a principal ingredient. The category, called sugar confectionery, encompasses any sweet confection, including chocolate, chewing gum, and sugar candy.

Toffee is a confection made by caramelizing sugar or molasses (creating inverted sugar) along with butter, and occasionally flour. The mixture is heated until its temperature reaches the hard crack stage of 149 to 154 °C (300 to 310 °F).

A rich sweet confection made with sugar and often flavored or combined with fruits or nuts.

A kind of firm or hard sweet which softens when sucked or chewed, made by boiling together sugar and butter, often with other ingredients or flavourings added

A piece of such a confection.

Nonsense; rubbish

(Slang) An illicit drug, especially one, such as cocaine, that has a sugary appearance or a drug in pill form, such as MDMA.

A hard, chewy candy made of brown sugar or molasses and butter.

To cook, preserve, saturate, or coat with sugar or syrup

(uncountable) a type of confectionery made by boiling sugar (or treacle, etc) with butter or milk, then cooling the mixture so that it becomes hard

Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.

(countable) a small, individual piece of toffee

A piece of confectionery of this kind.

(Northern England) any kind of sweets; candy

Crack cocaine.

(transitive) To coat in toffee.

(uncountable) An accessory (bracelet, etc.) made from pony beads, associated with the rave scene.

Taffy.

(obsolete) A unit of mass used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.

Caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets

(cooking) To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.

(intransitive) To have sugar crystals form in or on.

(intransitive) To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.

To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger.

To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass resembling candy; as, to candy sirup.

To incrust with sugar or with candy, or with that which resembles sugar or candy.

To have sugar crystals form in or on; as, fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.

To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.

Any sweet, more or less solid article of confectionery, especially those prepared in small bite-sized pieces or small bars, having a wide variety of shapes, consistencies, and flavors, and manufactured in a variety of ways. It is often flavored or colored, or covered with chocolate, and sometimes contains fruit, nuts, etc.; it is often made by boiling sugar or molasses to the desired consistency, and than crystallizing, molding, or working in the required shape. Other types may consist primarily of chocolate or a sweetened gelatin. The term may be applied to a single piece of such confection or to the substance of which it is composed.

Cocaine.

A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.

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

Coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze

Yes, toffee is a type of candy.

Typically, yes, toffee is cooked to a hard crack stage, making it harder and chewier than many other candies.

Candy can include a wide range of flavors from various ingredients, whereas toffee's flavor primarily comes from the caramelization of sugar and butter.

Yes, there are vegan versions of toffee that use substitutes like coconut oil or vegan butter.

Candy is a general category of sweets primarily made from sugar, while toffee is a specific type of hard, chewy candy made by caramelizing sugar with butter.

Those with dairy allergies should avoid toffee since it contains butter, a common allergen.

Toffee is often served as a treat on its own or as part of a dessert, such as in toffee pudding or as a topping.

The key ingredients in toffee are sugar and butter, and sometimes molasses or flour for different variations.

In some cultures, particularly in the UK, toffee is considered a traditional luxury treat.

British toffee often includes specific recipes and traditional methods, such as the addition of treacle or licorice.

Popular variations include buttercrunch toffee, which includes almonds, and honeycomb toffee, known for its light, airy texture.

Like other candies, toffee is high in sugar and calories, and it can be sticky, which may affect dental health.

Toffee should be stored in a cool, dry place in an airtight container to keep it from becoming sticky or too hard.

Toffee is particularly popular during the winter holidays and as a gift item in festive seasons.

Toffee's origins are traced back to early 19th century Britain, where sugar and butter were cooked together to form this confection.