spun sugar
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The sheep’s milk cheesecake had come ensconced in a cloche made of spun sugar, a special touch the restaurant included as part of the birthday treat.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2023
Stars Hollow, like the family relationship around which it revolves, is a TV fantasy built on a foundation of spun sugar.
From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2021
The menu does not mention these aren’t pork cracklins but fried chicken skin: six pieces, each the size of a Frito, but as flat and fragile as spun sugar.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2019
Only a few in the front row actually got to share in that moment, spun sugar dissolving upon their tongues.
From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2016
There were arches of spun sugar, towers of pastry, basted birds posed for flight.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
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