Product Review

So convinced that a little sweetness can be quite appealing? Especially when it comes to floss and not just any candy floss mind you! This Girl's Weave floss with threads so fine you can't call them candy floss anymore and they don't quite feel like cotton too. Some people thought them so magical that they named it fairy floss.

It is somewhat like that Chinese thread-like sweet snack also known as dragon beard. Fairy floss is however, much lighter than dragon beard. More delicate, more wispy. It disappears fast too. It's easy to be so caught up with the subtle lightness that you might just finish the whole pack before you know it. It is made using icing sugar instead of sugar crystals - thus the lighter mouthfeel? These are great for decorating desserts as well: ice cream frosting, cake, and so on.

Cotton candy, candy floss, or tooth floss, and Fairy Floss is a form of spun sugar.

The delicate clouds of ghazl al-banat cotton candy belie their origins, for who would suspect this fragile sweet, literally named "girls' knitting," requires the strength and weight of two men to knead and stretch into submission.
Common throughout the region, ghazl al-banat is a sweet made from caramel pulled thinner than a piece of thread. The result is an off-white ball of fluff that has the taste of a baked sugar cookie, the texture of cotton candy and the messiness of most foods that are also delicious.

amazing delicious snowballs of "ghazl al banat". Ghazl al banat is Arabic, and it means something along the lines of "girl hair locks". It's very very similar, if not even identical, to the maybe more known "Pashmak" from Iran. Pashmak (Persian fairy floss), made from sesame, is its cousin, more available worldwide and would make a perfect substitution.