Can you substitute sweetener for caster sugar?

Answer 1

If baking: measure for measure, no (i.e., 1 T caster sugar, 1 T sweetener). Better approach is to find recipes that provide sweetening in other forms (honey, apple sauce or pureed fruit are frequently-used substitutions for sugar or sweetener). If you are working with a recipe you already have & want to recreate without sugar, try experimenting with the substitutions. Some cooks have devised ways of using sweetener in baked goods, but many believe the finished product has a "metallic" taste.

Answer 2

One can make his/her own caster sugar by grinding granulated sugar slightly in a food processor or blender. However, one needs to be careful when doing this as it can be easy to end up with a sugar powder instead of finer granules.

Answer 3

Caster sugar (also known as super fine sugar or baker's sugar) is actually just your regular granulated sugar, the one you put in tea and coffee, which has been grounded so that it is very fine.


Purpose of caster sugar
The purpose of making the sugar finely grounded is so that it dissolves quicker in the recipe. Ordinary granulated sugar can make recipes lumpy where the sugar doesn't dissolve quick enough. So granulated sugar is grounded very finely, resulting in caster or super fine sugar.


Making your own caster sugar
You can place regular sugar in a food processor, coffee grinder or a mortar and pestle. Then grind the sugar until it appears finely grounded, like caster sugar from the store shelves is.
If using a food processor, it is best to use short bursts rather than one long continuous grind, as the power of the processor will just make the sugar fly about in the processor rather than get grounded.

You can use either white or brown sugar. However brown sugar may darken some recipes a bit.

Don't mistake caster sugar for powdered sugar. They are not the same thing and do not achieve the same result. Caster (or super fine) sugar is used by bakers. Powdered sugar is used by confectioners (sweet makers).

In most cases you can actually save yourself a few pennies buy purchasing ordinary granulated sugar and finely grounding it yourself.


Here is a link to a site that will tell you how to make your own caster sugar in one simple step:

• How To Make Caster Sugar

And here is a quick video explaining how to make caster sugar quickly:

Answer 4

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