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No - icing sugar is made from glucose and is simply white sugar finely ground to make confectioner's sugar or powder sugar. It often has small amounts of cornflour added. It is used to dust baked goods or to make an icing or frosting by adding small amounts of liquid or fat.
Fruit sugar is made from fructose and is preferred by some people for dietary or allergy-related reasons. It is a form of granulated sugar. You could make icing sugar from fruit sugar by grinding it finely in a food processor and adding a small quantity of cornflour.
If you're baking a cake and have run out of sugar you could substitute the same weight or volume of fruit sugar or a smaller volume or the same weight of icing sugar (because icing sugar is more finely ground than granulated sugar the same weight of icing sugar wil occupy less volume).
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Will icing sugar and powdered sugar work the same for icing?
Powdered sugar, icing sugar and confectioners sugar are all the same thing. It is usually known as icing sugar in England and powdered sugar in the USA. Confectioners sugar is used as an international name.These are the same thing. Powdered sugar, icing sugar, and confectioners sugar are just different names for sugar than has been ground to a fine powder so that it dissolves very easily.
Can you use icing sugar when its meant to use powdered sugar?
yes it is the same
What are the similarities and differences between A1 sugar caster sugar and icing sugar?
No, its not, icing sugar is a fine powder whereas caster sugar is grainy crystals. Chemically they are probably the same, but the grain size is different. Caster sugar and granulated sugar are the same though I think.
Is iced sugar and cornstarch the same thing?
No, icing sugar is incredibly fine ground up sugar. Cornstarch (although it looks similar) is cornflour; a type of flour made from corn kernals. Cornstarch is not 'sweet' in the same way that icing sugar is.
Will icing sugar and white sugar work the same way for icing?
No. Icing sugar is very finely ground, like a powder, so it dissolves in the butter and makes the frosting smooth. White sugar has little granules and if you use it in frosting your frosting will be grainy and crunchy.
Can you substitute fondant icing sugar for icing sugar?
If you are making icing, yes. If you are making a meringue, no.
Is confectioners sugar pure icing or icing sugar mixture?
Confectioner's sugar is icing sugar mixture (pure icing sugar with a small amount (about 3%) of starch added as an anti-caking agent). Pure icing sugar is very fine powdered refined sugar with no added starch.
Can you substitute icing sugar with powdered sugar?
If u wanted to make icing then icing sugar is better to be used. But if only sugar is available then you must melt it down in a saucepan.. Search it on google for how to do it as I'm not completely sure. I Just use icing sugar
What kind of sugar is in preparing icing?
Yes..... powdered sugar, confectioner sugar , icing sugar. Add water or juice and flavoring voila= icing
Does sugar dissolves in warm water?
Yes it will the same as any other sugar, like white refined or icing sugar
Can you make pure icing sugar?
i dont understand what you mean by pure.. but yes, you can make icing sugar
Can you replace caster sugar with icing sugar in baking cookies?
In some cases yes, but not if you're making icing. Icing sugar is far finer grained, and as such caster sugar will not be an adequate replacement in this case. (Your icing will be granular and not set properly). You may be able to if it's a meringue recipe, but you'd be better off finding a recipe that does not use icing sugar to begin with.
