- a French confection consisting of a caramel-covered almond or, sometimes, a hazelnut.
- a cookie-size confection made especially of butter, brown sugar, and pecans: developed in New Orleans in the early 19th century.
- a similar confection of nuts mixed or covered with chocolate, coconut, maple sugar or syrup, etc.
- a confection of nuts with caramelized sugar, used in desserts and as a filling for chocolates
- a sweet consisting of an almond encased in sugar
