candify

verb2

1. •
   (figurative) 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
2. •
   (no longer used) 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