A sugarloaf was the traditional form, a soft cone like a vertically-stretched gumdrop, in which refined sugar was exported from the Caribbean and eastern Brazil from the 17th to 19th centuries.

The characteristic shape of a sugarloaf has led to a number of hills and mountains being named Sugarloaf, including:

• Rio de Janeiro's Sugarloaf Mountain, Rio de Janeiro (Pão de Açúcar)
• Maine's Sugarloaf Mountain, home of the Sugarloaf/USA ski resort
• the Sugarloaf Mountain , Oregon
• Sugarloaf Mountain, Ireland
• Sugar Loaf Mountain, Wales

A number of places are named Sugarloaf:

• Sugarloaf Township, a community in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, USA.
• TPC at Sugarloaf, a golf course in Duluth, Georgia
• Sugarloaf, Lake Tahoe , a climbing area in California

Other things named sugarloaf:

• Sugarloaf, a type of pineapple
• sugarloaf , a breed of horse
• the movie production company which made Kiss of the Spider Woman.
• Sugarloaf, a pop music group best known for their hit songs "Green-Eyed Lady" (1970) and "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You" (1975).