PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a soft sugar coated food product in which there is even coating of soft sugar on a surface even when it has an indeterminate shape, having a crispy sugar coating layer and crispy texture of a porous raw material, namely having preferable texture, so that a person can eat it and enjoy difference between the sugar coating layer and the porous raw material, and a production method thereof capable of producing it at short time while operating in the same way as normal sugar coating.SOLUTION: Provided is the soft sugar coated food product formed by coating a porous raw material being a center with a soft sugar coating layer including liquid coating of sugar liquid including sugar and fat, and powder coating of fine powder and rough powder.COPYRIGHT: (C)2015,JPO&INPIT【課題】 不定形な形状であっても表面に均一にムラなくソフト糖衣が施されており、パリパリとした糖衣層とサクサクとした多孔質原料の食感を併せ持つ、良好な食感を有することから、糖衣層とセンターの多孔質原料の食感の違いを楽しめるソフト糖衣食品を提供すると共に、製造上も通常の糖衣と同じ様に操作しつつ、短時間でソフト糖衣食品を得ることができる方法を提供する。【解決手段】 センターである多孔質原料を、糖質と油脂とを含む糖衣液の液掛けと、微粉末と粗粉末との粉掛けとによるソフト糖衣層で被覆することからなるソフト糖衣食品。【選択図】なし