Cotton candy is a confection usually sold at circuses, state fairs, and carnivals, that is made with sugar and food coloring. The sugar is spun in a cotton candy machine to make the cotton candy. A cotton candy machine has a center bowl that is heated and a larger outer bowl to catch the spun sugar. Sugar and food coloring are placed inside the smaller heated bowl and melted into a liquid state and as the machine spins the liquid sugar comes out through small holes and into the larger outer bowl. This spun sugar can be put on a stick or gathered and put in a bag.
Cotton Candy Background and History
Collecting Cotton Candy
This video shows how to "collect"' cotton candy, which is how you get the cotton candy on the cone. The narrator says you can make the cotton candy whatever size you like, but the most common size is the size of an adult's head.
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Fast Facts
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Cotton candy is a form of spun sugar
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Also known as candy floss and fairy floss
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National Cotton Candy Day
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Fairy floss name changed to cotton candy in 1920
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Can be made any color
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Popular at fairs and circus's
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Most popular color pink
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Dissolves quickly in the mouth
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