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circus peanut noun[ C ] US(alsoCircus Peanut)uk /ˌsɜː.kəs ˈpiː.nʌt/ us /ˈsɝː.kəs ˌpiː.nʌt/ a soft sweet shaped like the shell of a peanut(= an oval-shaped seed that grows under the ground): Decorate each cupcake with the frosting and one circus peanut. She was eating a bag of Circus Peanuts. Why do packages of circus peanuts include nutritional facts? The ingredients in Circus Peanuts include sugar and corn syrup as the main ingredients, but also listed are gelatin, soy protein, pectin, orange color and artificial flavor. The mold for Circus Peanuts is actually a depression in dry corn starch. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Sweets almond paste baking chocolate barley sugar bitter chocolate bittersweet chocolate confectionery cooking chocolate cotton candy couverture cracknel liquorice lollipop lolly marchpane marron glacé snow cone sourball spun sugar stick of rock sugared almond |