Sugar baby captures the world’s ignorance as kids stuff their faces with processed sugar sold in plastic bags and covered with chemicals to maintain freshness and taste. But in Lyon France’s second largest city, you’ll find a small shop producing these delectable sweets.

So the story goes according to Wikipedia: during the plague epidemic in 1643, the aldermen of Lyon made the vow to organize a procession at Fourvière to implore the Virgin Mary to save the city. They carried a seven-pound candle of wax and a gold crown on a silk cushion. This gave the chocolatier Voisin, based in Lyon since 1897, the idea of using the shape of the cushion to create this confection in 1960. It has become the most popular French specialty confection containing chocolate ganache.

The Coussin de Lyon is a sweet specialty of Lyon, France composed of chocolate and marzipan. This tidbit is a piece of pale green marzipan, with dark green netting, filled with a chocolate ganache flavored with curaçao liqueur.