While sugar is best known for providing sweetness to foods, here are 4 more functional roles sugar plays in candies and confectionery 🍭🍫🍰:
1️⃣ Sugar helps provide the soft structure and texture to cakes and baked goods
2️⃣ Sugar balances the bitter flavour of cocoa in chocolate
3️⃣ Sugar reacts with heat through caramelization to create a golden brown colour and rich flavour I'm caramels, toffee, and peanut brittle
4️⃣ Controlling the crystallization of sugar can lead to either hard candies (maximized) or soft candies such as fondant and fudge (minimized)
