Cotton candy
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Cotton candy, also known as candy floss (candyfloss) and fairy floss, is a spun sugar confection that resembles cotton. It usually contains small amounts of flavoring or food coloring.[1]
Alternative names | Candy floss (candyfloss), fairy floss |
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Type | Confectionery |
Place of origin | United States |
Created by | William Morrison and John C. Wharton |
Main ingredients | Sugar, food coloring |
It is made by heating and liquefying sugar, and spinning it centrifugally through minute holes, causing it to rapidly cool and re-solidify into fine strands.[2] It is often sold at fairs, circuses, carnivals, and festivals, served in a plastic bag, on a stick, or on a paper cone.[3][4][5]
It is made and sold globally, as candy floss in the United Kingdom, Ireland, India, New Zealand,[6] Sri Lanka and South Africa, as fairy floss in Australia, as barbe à papa "daddy's beard" in France, as شعر البنات "girl's hair" in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, as غزل البنات "girl’s yarn" in Egypt.[7] Similar confections include Korean kkul-tarae and Iranian pashmak.