Sugar Sculpture
Candy Sculpture, Sugar Animal
noun
Candy made into a thin construction is a sugar sculpture or a candy sculpture. It's usually a sugar animal, but it can be anything, really.
This word uses the kun'yomi reading for the first kanji and the on'yomi readings for the second two. You haven't learned this reading for 工 yet, so here's a mnemonic to help you:
You want your sugar sculptures to be made into cookies (く)! Cookies are your other favorite snack, so having a cookie that's really just entirely made of sugar is the absolute best.
Also, watch out for the rendaku on 細, it's easy to miss if you're focusing on remembering this new on'yomi reading.
私の父は飴細工の名人です。
My father is a master of sugar sculptures.
飴細工作ったことある？
Have you ever made sugar sculptures?
その金魚の飴細工は、形も味も本物の金魚にそっくりなんだって。
Apparently, the sugar goldfish is similar to real goldfish in shape and taste.