spun sugar

American

noun

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 British

noun

another term for candyfloss

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

From Salon • Dec. 4, 2022

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

A Kangol hat made of spun sugar 55.

From Washington Post • Jun. 2, 2016

For the sweet, each guest was served a skull of spun sugar.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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