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How to Make Icing Sugar

Icing sugar is widely used in pastry making. It can be dusted over finished products as a decoration or used as a principal ingredient in sugar paste and glazes. It can also replace granulated sugar in batters and doughs to create a more delicate texture. You may have started a recipe only to find […]

From the recipe book Tutto Pasticceria
Reading3 min
DifficultyFor all
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Published02/03/2018
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– I do. icing sugar It is a very used ingredient in pastry making. It is used to create decorations by dusting it over finished products or even as a main ingredient in the pastry. sugar paste and in the icings.

Then it can also be replaced with traditional sugar in the dough to give a more delicate texture.

Surely we will have had a cake and in the middle of the preparation you realize that it icing sugar It’s over and the shops are closed.

No problem now we will explain how to prepare it in the house, you will need only a good blender and few ingredients and the game is done.

However, do not underestimate that preparing the icing sugar you save money since you icing sugar costs much more than traditional sugar.

 

Ingredients

  • 400 g of sugar;
  • 12gr of corn starch;
  • half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a half a bag of vanillin;

 

Proceedings

The procedure is really simple, you have to put all the ingredients in a blender and drive it to maximum power for about a minute.

At this point, check the consistency, drop what will be attached to the blender walls and continue to blend until it has the desired consistency.

If you use the Bimby instead of the traditional blender, you will just set the turbo speed for 7 seconds and the result will be perfect.

 

Store it icing sugar

When the powdered sugar is ready, pour it into a glass container and let it rest half an hour before using it, then you can keep it away from light and heat sources.

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