Around town, restaurants and lounges are serving up modernized high-style forms of the traditional prognosticating confection.

Sugar mice are a traditional confection popular in the United Kingdom, especially during the Christmas season.

It often takes newcomers time to acquire an appetite for the sweetened, mashed beans that turn up regularly in traditional Japanese confections.

Simnel cake is a traditional confection associated with both Mothering Sunday and Easter.

Many traditional confections use a sweet, thick miso glaze, such as mochidango.

The pastry chef, Eric Landais, deconstructs traditional confections in his biscuit Basque, a beautiful individual cake.

Another traditional confection is a large disk of a coconut confection called "alfajor."

These traditional confections arrived in Parral in the early 20th century.

Juchheim started making and selling the traditional confection at a German exhibition in Hiroshima in 1919.

Today, desserts are going global, with the exotic flavors of Asia slowly and stealthily transforming our more traditional confections.