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

It's a spectacular tableside experience, complete with spun sugar, smoke and other intricate details that leave you mesmerized.

From Salon • Apr. 22, 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

There were arches of spun sugar, towers of pastry, basted birds posed for flight.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin