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View synonyms for spun sugar

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. another term for candyfloss
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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There were still clouds, but so wispy they had an iridescent sheen like spun sugar.

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.

I’m acquainted with the treat made popular by Minibar yet I still smile at the confection, now widely copied, which finds a cube of cognac-spiked foie gras torchon beneath a pink tuft of spun sugar.

But look closer, and you might marvel that these floral arrangements, as spindly as spun sugar, are fashioned from glass.

I read about choux pastry, wet caramel, and how to wrap your pastry tower with spun sugar.

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