Icing sugar
Icing sugar is a powdered sugar that is commonly used to decorate cakes and desserts.
Icing sugar is also known as confectioners sugar or powdered sugar. It is made by grinding granulated sugar into a fine powder. It usually contains cornflower to keep it from clumping together, making it unsuitable for people with gluten intolerance.
As its name suggests, icing sugar is mostly used in decoration rather than baking. As it is the finest sugar available it dissolves almost instantly into mixtures. It is perfect for buttercream, cream cheese icing and royal icing or simply dusting over cakes or cookies.
1 cup of icing sugar is equal to 110 grams.
How to make icing sugar
Icing sugar is the same as granulated sugar but much finer, using a food processor you can create icing sugar at home. It’s so easy and quick this trick is great if you have no time to run to the shops. You will only need two ingredients, sugar and cornstarch!
- Add granulated sugar to a food processor with cornflower.
- Blitz until fine this may take about a minute.
- Feel the mixture with your fingers and if it is still grainy keep blitzing!
