**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 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. It usually contains small amounts of food flavoring and it naturally bears the color of the sugar it is made of which is often altered with food coloring.
 Spinning cotton candy at a fair | |
| Alternative names | Candy floss (candyfloss), fairy floss |
|---|---|
| Type | Confectionery |
| Region or state | United States |
| Main ingredients | Sugar, food coloring |
It is often sold at fairs, circuses, carnivals, and festivals, served in a plastic bag, on a stick, or on a paper cone.
It is made and sold globally, as candy floss in the United Kingdom, Ireland, India, New Zealand, and South Africa, as fairy floss in Australia. Similar confections include the Chinese longxusu, the Korean kkul-tarae and the Iranian pashmak.
English
Alternative forms
- cotton-candy
Etymology
From cotton + candy; from being a candy appearing like a mass of cotton balls or cotton batting.
Pronunciation
Noun
cotton candy (usually uncountable, plural cotton candies)
- (US, Canada) Melted sugar spun into thin threads and collected into a mass, usually on a stick.
- Synonyms: candy floss (UK, Ireland and New Zealand), fairy floss (Australia)