spun sugar

noun

1. a confection resembling fluff or floss, made from hot boiled sugar that has threaded, used as a garnish, frosting, or in making cotton candy.

spun sugar

noun

1. See candyfloss
   another term for candyfloss

Example Sentences

Banana ice cream, frozen chocolate mousse, a web of spun sugar, almond cake, chocolate crunches.

From The Daily Beast

Cakes must be glazed in red, and the ice cream, served in artistic little baskets of spun sugar, to take the form of red roses.

From Project Gutenberg

The ice cream in flower forms is brought in in a spun sugar nest resting on twigs of pussy willows.

From Project Gutenberg

Ornaments of spun sugar I have a very great dislike to for a dinner, but if required, the sugar must be boiled to the last degree.

From Project Gutenberg

When ready to serve turn the charlotte on to a dish and garnish with a wreath of spun sugar or serve plain.

From Project Gutenberg

Sugar rocks were strewn about with precipices of nougat, glaciers of vanilla candy, and waterfalls of spun sugar.

From Project Gutenberg