If you don't mind having crunchy icing.
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Caster sugar or icing sugar. Sugar with larger grains do not dissolve properley in the cake mix.
Not unless the cake recipe specifically calls for icing sugar. Granulated sugar has a specific weight to measured volume and will provide that specific quantity and sweetness to the cake. Icing sugar has a different weight to volume, different texture and a different level of sweetness. It is important to use the specific ingredient called for in the recipe being followed in order to obtain the proper result.
No, it's very finely ground sugar to which cornstarch is added to prevent lumping. It's also known as powdered sugar or icing sugar.Substitute: Mix 1 cup granulated sugar + 1 tablespoon corn starch in blender until powdery.
Granulated sugar shouldn't be used as a substitute where powdered sugar is specified in a recipe; granulated sugar will be too coarse.
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.
No, caster sugar is fine-ground granulated sugar. Confectioner's sugar is a mix of ultra-fine sugar and a starch; it is sometimes called icing sugar.
White granulated sugar, caster sugar, light brown sugar, dark brown sugar, Demetra sugar and icing sugar.
Icing sugar is normal white granulated sugar that has been powdered to be very very fine.
Powered sugar is pulverizing granulated sugar, with cornstarch added to prevent lumps.
Unless it is specified as something else, sugar in a recipe is granulated sugar. If it is supposed to be powered or brown it will say so.
No... Powdered sugar is icing sugar. Granulated sugar is white sugar that is in granules. Chemically they are identical. The difference is in the physical structure. You can create your own powdered sugar by using a blender and granulated sugar. It won't be as fine, but it will be closer.