Who invented candy and how?

Not counting cavemen who may have dug honey from bee hives to enjoy a sweet treat, recorded history traces candy (or 'sweets' to us Brits) to the Egyptians 3,500 years ago. They used honey to sweeten confections of figs, dates, nuts and spices. The Aztecs made a concoction they called chocolatl, a liquid derived from ground cocoa beans and water. But the big growth in candy making came in the 14th century, when Venetians began importing sugar to sweeten their confections. http://www.candyusa.org/Kids/kids_education/careers.shtml http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:1p61ON5QYIkJ:www.som.yale.edu/faculty/pks4/files/personal/dad/nyt_971130.pdf+'earliest+candy' and hl=en and ie=UTF-8 (The second link contains an ampersand between 'en' and 'ie' prior to '=UTF' and therefore may not work when posted to this site).  more