I can still taste those apricots that came submerged in a sickly sweet syrup.

In the bain-marie you gently melt the waxy cacao butter, then add the cacao powder and agave nectar, a sweet syrup derived from a cactus.

Originally having the meaning 'antidote to venom', it came to mean a 'balm' and then any sweet syrup used to render more palatable a bitter medicine.

Koeksisters are made from a similar, but sweeter, dough but are braided in long strips then coated in a sticky sweet syrup.

Sweet syrup flavor over squares that crunch.