Confectionery vs. Chocolate — What's the Difference?

Confectionery is the art of making confections, which are food items that are rich in sugar and carbohydrates. Exact definitions are difficult.

A grayish to deep reddish brown to deep grayish brown.

Sweets and chocolates considered collectively

A beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot

Candies and other confections considered as a group.

Chocolate is a food product made from roasted and ground cacao pods, that is available as a liquid, solid or paste, on its own or as a flavoring agent in other foods. Cacao has been consumed in some form since at least the Olmec civilization (19th-11th century BCE), and the majority of Mesoamerican people - including the Maya and Aztecs - made chocolate beverages.The seeds of the cacao tree have an intense bitter taste and must be fermented to develop the flavor.

The skill or occupation of a confectioner.

Fermented, roasted, shelled, and ground cacao seeds, often combined with a sweetener or flavoring agent.

A confectioner's shop.

A beverage made by mixing water or milk with chocolate.

(uncountable) Foodstuffs that taste very sweet, taken as a group; candies, sweetmeats and confections collectively.

A small, chocolate-covered candy with a hard or soft center.

(uncountable) The business or occupation of manufacturing confectionery; the skill or work of a confectioner.

Made or flavored with chocolate

A store where confectionery is sold; a confectioner's shop.

Of a grayish to deep reddish brown to deep grayish brown.

Sweetmeats, in general; things prepared and sold by a confectioner; confections; candies.

A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans.

A place where candies, sweetmeats, and similar things are made or sold.

A drink made by dissolving this food in boiling milk or water.

A food rich in sugar

(countable) A single, small piece of confectionery made from chocolate.

A confectioner's shop

(uncountable) A dark, reddish-brown colour/color, like that of chocolate (also called chocolate brown).

A black person; (uncountable) blackness.

Made of or containing chocolate.

Having a dark reddish-brown colour/color.

(slang) Black relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.

To add chocolate to; to cover (food) in chocolate.

To treat blood agar by heating in order to lyse the red blood cells in the medium.

A paste or cake composed of the roasted seeds of the Theobroma Cacao ground and mixed with other ingredients, usually sugar, and cinnamon or vanilla.

The beverage made by dissolving a portion of the paste or cake in boiling water or milk.

A food made from roasted ground cacao beans

A medium to dark brown color