Abstract: A process is provided for preparing soft, gummy candies that retain their physical shapes well and have a pleasant bite and chew when employed in ice cream. The process entails preparing a first premix of sucrose, glycerin, corn syrup and water and blending it with a hydrated gelatin/pectin solution. The resulting combined solution is then cooked at elevated temperature and pressure to form a candy melt. The resulting candy melt is reduced in moisture content and mixed with color, flavor and acid prior to forming the candy melt into discrete, soft candy pieces, e.g., by depositing in starch moulds. The candies are mixed with ice cream to form a soft candy and ice cream confection.

Abstract: Methods for making sweet, flavored, coated comestible where the sweet, flavored, coated comestible comprises (a) a comestible base, (b) a dipeptide sweetener, (c) a fat dispersible flavoring material containing a carbonyl flavoring compound, and (d) an edible fatty material having a Wiley Melting Point in the range of about 20.degree. C. to 45.degree. C. and an iodine value of less than about 40, wherein the flavoring material containing the carbonyl flavoring compound is dispersed within the edible fatty material and wherein the dispersed flavoring material and dipeptide sweetener are intermingled in a coating on the comestible base.