spun sugar
Example Sentences
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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
Her hair collected fine as spun sugar in the corners of the floor.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2016
She had made a vanilla cream cake with custard and spun sugar.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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