hard panned confection have a hard crystalline coating and include products such as sugar almonds, mint imperials, non pareils and sugar coated chocolate lentils and eggs soft panning applies a thick,soft copies to content such as moulded jelly beans or chews. rather than using heat to dry out the crystallized a sugar coating,soft panning uses a non crystallizing syrup. this is a cold process the pan and syrup are unheated and no drying air is used. it is also a first process and thick coating can be build up in a very short time