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Awesome Cotton Candy

Making Cotton Candy without a Machine

Making Cotton Candy without a Machine

Most cotton candy is produced by spinning heated sugar in a special appliance until it forms thin strands. But this talented candy maker shows how a traditional Chinese cotton candy can be made by spinning hot, caramelized sugar in the air and inserting a skewer of caramels in the middle to catch the candy floss.

Making a Cotton Candy Gun

Making a Cotton Candy Gun

Like many things on the internet, the cotton candy gun exists solely because nobody had done it before. Kevin Kohler, aka The Backyard Scientist experimented with various overly-complex methods to fire a molten mixture of sugar, water, and food coloring, ultimately realizing that the simplest approach is often the best.

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Flavored Cotton Candy

Flavored Cotton Candy
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Who says cotton candy has to taste like cotton candy? The folks at Chocolate Storybook sure don’t, and they make the fluffy stuff in flavors like cinnamon bun, buttered popcorn, atomic fireball, pina colada, birthday cake, root beer, peach, and even jalapeƱo.

Making a Cotton Candy Flower

Making a Cotton Candy Flower

Here in the US, cotton candy is typically just a big fluffy pillow of spun sugar, but in China, it’s often turned into amazing works of edible art by street vendors. Watch as this candy chef in Chongqing, China turns sugar into an intricate multi-color flower. Oh the humanity at 8:11!

DIY Dragon’s Beard Cotton Candy

DIY Dragon’s Beard Cotton Candy

Today’s cotton candy is made by heating and spinning sugar using a motor. Eater host Clifford Endo is here to show you how to make it the old fashioned way, using a technique similar to noodles, hand-pulling inverted sugar to make thousands of hair-thin sugar strands.

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