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Colored Sugar
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So easy to make, and so much potential for amazing desserts. Just a few drops of food coloring and you can beautifully decorate cookies and cakes, as well as making fancier and more innovative creations like colored creme brulee.
serves/makes:
ready in:
under 30 minutes
under 30 minutes
2 reviews
1 comment
ingredients
1 cup granulated white sugar
liquid food coloring (see guide below)
directions
Combine the sugar and food coloring (as per the chart below) in a bowl until well blended and uniform in color. Spread the colored sugar mixture out on waxed paper or parchment paper to dry, making sure there are no lumps.
When the sugar has dried, transfer it to an airtight container for up to 3 months. Use as a decorating sugar or use the colored sugar anywhere granulated sugar is called for.
Color Chart:
Orange: 3 drops yellow and 2 drops red food coloring
Peach: 4 drops yellow and 1 drop red food coloring
Yellow: 5 drops yellow food coloring
Pale yellow: 3 drops yellow food coloring
Green: 8 drops green food coloring
Lime Green: 3 drops yellow and 1 drop green food coloring
Blue: 5 drops blue food coloring
Turquoise blue: 3 drops blue and 1 drop green food coloring
Baby blue: 2 drops blue food coloring
Purple: 3 drops red and 2 drops blue food coloring
Red: 8-10 drops red food coloring
Rose: 5 drops red and 1 drop blue food coloring
Pink: 1-2 drops red food coloring
nutrition data
48 calories, 0 grams fat, 12 grams carbohydrates, 0 grams protein per tablespoon. This recipe is low in sodium. This recipe is low in fat.
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reviews & comments
Do you know if you can use this sugar to make cotton candy?
You should be able to use this sugar in any recipe calling for granulated sugar.
September 21, 2013
Coloring sugar is so simple and can add some really elegant touches to your desserts. I highly recommend starting out with a light hand with the food coloring. A little goes a long way. If you do add too much you can dilute it with more sugar. Liquid food coloring works best except for really bold colors. Paste will give you better color but it doesn't leave the texture of the sugar as nice and fine (it gets a little more clumpy). I used paste to make black sugar. I tried it first with liquid color and it turned more gray/green than black. The paste gave me a great black color but coarser results. If you want colored powdered sugar simply make the color you need using granulated sugar and then put it in the blender once it's dried.
July 23, 2013
I needed colored sugar for decorating for a baby shower. Buying the sugar would have been horribly expensive so I bought the coarse sugar in bulk and made my own using this recipe. It was perfect and I liked that I could get just the right shade.