candify

Verb

1. To candy.
   • […] seven little pies—molasses pies, baked in saucers—each with a brown top and crisp candified edge, which tasted like toffy and lemon-peel, and all sorts of good things mixed up together. - 1872, Susan Coolidge, What...
   • The candifying or granulating of extracted honey has also been a hinderance and great draw back to its introduction and use. - 1875, Bee-keeper's Magazine:
2. To make sweet or saccharine at the expense of serious meaning.
   • Jazz was not always an accepted music, and, of course, today we have the problem of remaining faithful to the cultural roots of jazz, not just candifying, Disneyfying the music. - 1994, United States. Congress. Senate....
   • They have become democratized into an item of popular consumption, perhaps a more gritty comestible than the candified menu served up in Disneyland's version of the American past... - 1998, John D. Seelye, Memory's...
   • A minor misfortune of Ravel’s legacy is the relative obscurity of his best piano pieces and the prominence of their candified orchestral versions. - 2008 March 15, Bernard Holland, “Ravel: A Bit Wicked, a Bit...