Pişmaniye is a Turkish confection made by blending flour roasted in butter into pulled-sugar and then forming it into fine strands.

Although it is sometimes compared to cotton candy, both the ingredients and method of preparation are significantly different.

Until recently pişmaniye used to be made at home in most regions of Turkey, but this tradition is now rapidly disappearing.

The earliest Turkish reference to pişmaniye is a recipe by Şirvani,[3] a physician writing during the 1430s.

The Persian form pashmak, related to paşmīna and paşm, the origin of the Turkish name pişmaniye,[4] occurs in the poetry of the Iranian poet Ebu Ishak, also known as Bushak (d. 1423 or 1427).