spun sugar

There were still clouds, but so wispy they had an iridescent sheen like spun sugar.

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.

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.

But look closer, and you might marvel that these floral arrangements, as spindly as spun sugar, are fashioned from glass.

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