spun sugar
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
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.
From Washington Post • Mar. 10, 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
A barn was suddenly made of gingerbread and spun sugar.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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