Learn to dust (like a cake with sugar) in German. Build fluency with personalized exercises, chats, and video recommendations.
stauben (der Staub = dust, powder; used for actual dust settling on surfaces) can also mean "to dust" as in removing dust from furniture
If you mean dust as in sprinkling sugar/cocoa on a cake, use bestreuen (den Kuchen mit Puderzucker bestreuen = dust the cake with powdered sugar) or bestäuben (used with powdery ingredients: mit Puderzucker bestäuben)
Related Topics: Cooking, Kitchen Vocabulary, Baking