Spun sugar
Sugar that has been melted until deep brown and liquid which is then spun into decorative shapes. The sugar resets on cooling into a crispy golden solid. Spun sugar shapes are used to decorate desserts.
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Spun sugar: boiled sugar made into long, thin threads by dipping wires into the sugar syrup and waving them so that the sugar falls off in fine streams.
Spuntino (It.): snack.
It is hard to imagine circuses, carnivals, and fairs without the ubiquitous pink clouds of spun sugar called cotton candy.
cotton candy - Also known as candy flosh, spun sugar, and sugar cotton wool. A fluffy confection that is made from long spun sugar threads. Traditionally made by melting sugar and flossine together in a centrifuge.
Toasting the hazelnuts brings out their flavor for this light cake. A web of spun sugar adds a magic touch to the already elegant dessert.
Toasted Hazelnut Cake
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croquembouche: a dessert made up of filled profiteroles, stacked in a pyramid and coated with a (spun sugar)caramel
croquettes: Cooked foods moulded into cylinders, panéed and deep fried ...
Jean François Houdré is known for the artistry of his desserts. To decorate his Yule Log Cake, he pulled out all the stops, adorning it with marbled chocolate oranments, spun sugar ribbons and playful meringue mushrooms.
The original was an elaborate dish of a swan of ice with peaches on top on a bed of ice-cream and topped with spun sugar. Today, the dessert consists of peach halves on a bed of vanilla ice-cream and coated with raspberry puree.
Voiler A French term describing small pieces of confectionary coated with spun sugar.
Vol-Au-Vent A puff pastry case. A French term translating as 'flight in the wind'.
Volaille Indicates poultry dishes.
 See also: Sugar, Cake, Butter, Dessert, Cooking
  
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