Toppings

Caramel (, or (US) ) is a range of food ingredients made by heating sugars to high temperatures. It is used as a flavoring in puddings and desserts, as a filling in bonbons or candy bars, as a topping for ice cream and custard, and as a colorant commonly used in drinks.

dairy product

Pepperoni is an American variety of spicy salami made from cured pork and beef seasoned with paprika and chili peppers.

chocolate-flavored condiment

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preserved, sweetened cherry

Butterscotch is a type of confection whose primary ingredients are brown sugar and butter. Some recipes include cream, vanilla, and salt. The earliest known recipes, in mid-19th century Yorkshire, used treacle (molasses) in place of, or in addition to, sugar.

Sprinkles are small pieces of confectionery used as an often colorful decoration or to add texture to desserts such as brownies, cupcakes, doughnuts or ice cream. The tiny candies are produced in a variety of colors and are generally used as a topping or a decorative element. The Dictionary of American Regional English defines them as "tiny balls or rod-shaped bits of candy used as a topping for ice-cream, cakes and other".

thumb|Dark chocolate hagelslag sprinkles on buttered white bread '''' (, ; , from muisjes'') are small, oblong, sweet-tasting chocolate sprinkles or granules, a few millimetres long, which are sprinkled on slices of buttered bread or rusks.

In baking and pastry making, streusel () is a crumbly topping of flour, butter, and sugar that is baked on top of muffins, breads, pies, and cakes. Some modern recipes add spices and chopped nuts. The mixture can also be layered or ribboned in the middle of a cake.

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(; ) are Dutch aniseed comfits, used as a traditional bread topping, often to celebrate the birth of a baby. They are traditionally eaten on beschuit, or rusk, though it is also customary to eat them on bread. Muisjes is a registered trademark of Koninklijke De Ruijter BV. Muisjes are made of aniseeds with a sugared and colored outer layer. Dutch food processing company De Ruijter, a brand acquired by Heinz in 2001, holds a monopoly on the production of Muisjes.