Yes you can. It's the only way I've ever made fudge. Most powdered sugar packages have a recipe for fudge.
Once you've successfully learned to make fudge from powdered sugar, there's one more thing you can learn that will have people begging for more. The exact same recipe for fudge made from powdered sugar, is also the recipe for fudge frosting. The only difference is that you don't cook the fudge. Just mix the recipe and spread it on your cakes or cookies.
The recipe that I use is on the link below.
That depends, what are you making?
Making steel, steel is definitely crystalline. Making eggnog, eggs are crystalline. Making hard tack candy, making fudge although sugar is considered noncrystalline, you are varying the phases of sugar to include one large sugar crystal to get hard tack and annealing the fudge to avoid the formation of sugar crystals.
Usually one pound of powdered sugar is in a box. Which is about 2 cups.
Powdered sugar contains cornstarch which could alter the texture of the canned goods. So powdered sugar would not be a good choice when canning.
yes it is the same
Yes, you can color powdered sugar to use as a decorative element in baking by mixing it with food coloring or powdered food coloring.
Confectioner's Sugar (powdered sugar) has a completely different consistency and quality than granulated sugar. You cannot substitute one for the other.
sugar or just mix sugar with cornstarch
Some creative ways to use a bag of powdered sugar in baking recipes include making frosting, dusting baked goods for decoration, creating glazes for pastries, and making sweet fillings for desserts like cream puffs or doughnuts.
it depends on what you are making. some things it may not work, but others it should be ok. what are you making?
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, you cannot directly substitute powdered sugar for granulated sugar using the same measurement. Powdered sugar is much finer and has a different density, so it takes up more volume. Typically, you should use about 1 ¾ cups of powdered sugar to replace 1 cup of granulated sugar. However, it's also important to consider that powdered sugar contains cornstarch, which may affect the texture of the final product.