ناطف

Etymology
Either from the root related to dribbling, spilling, because of the manner cream is created, or an  borrowing, since soapwort has been used to make a foam sugared and used as a surrogate for egg white foam (meringue) or whipped cream, and the Aramaic root cognate to  would be  which however just means “to drip”, perhaps the source of the uncommon Arabic root. The Iberian type of candy is claimed to be a material borrowing from Arabic practice.

Noun

 * 1) a kind of nougat or hard candy from cream or foam hardened with sugar