Yes, you can use caster sugar to make buttercream icing. You will need to cream the butter and sugar until you get the correct texture.
Sweet icing made from buttercream (butter and cream). One common recipe for buttercream includes RAW whipped egg whites, simple syrup (sugar and water), and butter. Flavorings can also be added, such as melted chocolate, to make chocolate buttercream.
butter and icing sugar. around 150g butter and 300g icing sugar, mix them together and voila. this should be enogh to cover a 20cm round cake
Sweet icing made from buttercream (butter and cream). One common recipe for buttercream includes RAW whipped egg whites, simple syrup (sugar and water), and butter. Flavorings can also be added, such as melted chocolate, to make chocolate buttercream.
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You cannot make traditional icing with caster sugar. However, you can use caster sugar to make a glaze or fresh whipped cream. (In a pinch, you can also use instant pudding with a third of the liquid it calls for.)
My recipe uses 6 oz icing sugar (powdered) and 3 oz of caster sugar and it works every time but I think the icing sugar (powdered) is important. Just checked 2 other recipes on www and they both use both types of sugar so I guess you should go and get some.
i dont understand what you mean by pure.. but yes, you can make icing sugar
yes. one can make australian organic caster sugar
Powdered (confectioner's) sugar is a basic ingredient to cream cheese frosting. Substitutions such as granulated table sugar, brown sugar or honey will not produce acceptable cream cheese frosting. In a pinch, it may be possible to process granulated white sugar in a blender or food processor until very fine. Then add a tablespoon of corn starch to each cup of very finely processed sugar to approximate powdered sugar.
i would not use granulated sugar while making buttercream icing. i would only use icing sugar. icing sugar usually has cornstarch mixed in with the powdered sugar. even if you added cornstarch to granulated sugar it would still give you a completely different texture than icing sugar...it would feel very gritty.
I have tried it and dosent make much of a diffrence!