A chocolate bar is a confection in bar form comprising some or all of the following components: cocoa solids, cocoa butter, sugar, and/or milk.
A variety of candies, desserts, and confections are made with caramel: brittles, nougats, pralines, crme brle, crme caramel, and caramel apples.
It is a very sweet, spreadable, marshmallow-like confection.
So fudge is a necessary confection.
I can think of few worse insults than that—the great whales turned into a confection for fat kids.
I interpret it as the collective name for sweetmeats and confections.
But the essential elements of the confection are clear.
The citizens charter is nothing more than a glossy confection.