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
But look closer, and you might marvel that these floral arrangements, as spindly as spun sugar, are fashioned from glass.
From New York Times • Mar. 2, 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
She had made a vanilla cream cake with custard and spun sugar.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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