A praline is a sweet made with nuts cooked in boiling sugar until they are coated and crunchy — often almonds, pecans, or hazelnuts. In chocolate shops, the same word also covers a soft nut filling inside a chocolate, or a smooth ground-nut paste. It came into English from French, and it still feels a little fancy: you see it on dessert menus and chocolate boxes more than in everyday talk about snacks. Though actually, the picture in people’s heads is not one thing. In the American South a praline is often a round brown-sugar pecan candy; in Europe it may be the chocolate with a nut centre. Same family of sweets, slightly different shapes.

普拉琳（烘焙、巧克力店用語）；也指糖煮堅果做成的果仁糖。台灣甜點店多半說普拉琳，不一定會說「果仁糖」。