spun sugar

noun

: sugar boiled to long threads and gathered up and shaped into desired forms or heaped on a stick as a candy

… thin shells of chocolate filled with caramel and white chocolate mousse and cradled in a nest of spun sugar.—

Jeff Book

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Iridescent rainbow orbs bursting into tangerine spun sugar. —

Krista Stevens, Longreads, 14 Feb. 2023 Following a search by drug-sniffing dogs and a nonintrusive inspection system, officers discovered more than 3,300 pounds of marijuana tucked inside the blue spun sugar. —

Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 18 Jan. 2023 Its confiseries artfully sculpt spun sugar, lavish exacting attention on bonbons and extol the tradition of lavender-honey-pistachio nougat, particularly in Provence’s Montélimar. —

Laura Manske, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022 Researchers used spun sugar – hardened sugar syrup drawn out into long strands as seen in cotton candy and cake decorations – to build bundles of hollow, synthetic tubes. —

Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2016 The thing to order is the snow egg, an eye-catching confection of meringue and lemon curd mousse over raspberries with basil syrup, wearing a crown of spun sugar. —

Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Oct. 2022 Perfect for warmer months, this light and sweet Lancôme fragrance features bright, effervescent notes of white iris, patchouli, vanilla and spun sugar. —

April Franzino, Good Housekeeping, 23 June 2022 The pastry cook to hire for spun sugar and chocolate towers? —

Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2021 Entranced, Simard watched as leaf litter—shed by birches, hemlocks, cedars, and firs—was raked back to expose a swath of fungal tendrils glistening like spun sugar. —

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