Homemade powdered sugar is so easy to make! Learn how in this simple tutorial. Use any sugar you have on hand (healthier options like coconut sugar and turbinado sugar work great!). One cup sugar will yield about two cups powdered sugar.
Recipe by Cookie and Kate on November 13, 2014
Prep time: PT3M
Total time: PT3M
Rating
4.6 stars ( reviews)
Keywords
confectioners sugar
Ingredients
Approximately half as much granulated sugar as you need powdered sugar (I’ve had best results with cane sugar, turbinado sugar and coconut sugar but even brown sugar and sucanat work!)
Categories
Tutorial
Steps
Pour granulated sugar into a blender or food processor. Blend the sugar until it is a fine, fluffy powdered sugar. The more refined, whiter sugars make the fluffiest powdered sugars.
Use powdered sugar immediately or save it for later. You may want to sift the sugar before use for clump free, super fluffy sugar.
Nutitrion
Serving Size: 1/4 cup powdered sugar (made from 2 tablespoons granulated sugar)
Calories: 97 calories
Carbohydrates: 25 g
Protein: 0 g
Fat: 0 g
Saturated Fat: 0 g
Cholesterol: 0 mg
Sodium: 0.3 mg
Sugar: 25 g
Reviews
Mercy on 2019-11-17 (5 stars): Thank you very much, it is helpful
Brown Sugar Exporter on 2020-05-30 (5 stars): Hi, Kate thank you for sharing such a wonderful tip with us. I am practicing some new dishes, making powder sugar will help me in cooking. Thanks once again.
CHARIZ on 2020-08-18 (5 stars): Whoa!thank you so much for this great idea!can't imagine how useful my meat processor. so this is it?problem solved.
Lois akande on 2020-08-28 (4 stars): Good, but can I use a hand mixer instead?
Thanks
Cass on 2020-09-20 (5 stars): I did this in the nutri bullet and it worked PERFECTLY - thank you!
Karen on 2020-12-19 (5 stars): Very happy I found this super quick and easy recipe. Using my small Moulinex nut grinder, it took me less than half a minute (!!) to make 1/4 cup of powdered sugar to sprinkle on my Linzer cookies.
So easy - I just poured 2 TBs of cane sugar into the grinder and 10 seconds later I got my 1/4 cup of powdered sugar. I funneled the unused portion into a reusable glass spice jar. Never buying the packaged stuff again. Thank you, Kate! :)
Marlitt Arnouville on 2021-02-14 (5 stars): Thank you so much for the recipe, we never use the powder sugar, because it will sit in the cabinet forever!
Jenny harris on 2022-05-17 (5 stars): Heey so I don't have powdered sugar but I want to make oatmeal carrot cups for my bf and I also don't have any icing what can I use instead and is there any fast and easy recipes
Elizabeth on 2022-07-31 (5 stars): Was making donuts and almost done when I realized I didn't have powdered sugar for the glaze. TOTAL LIFE-CHANGER. Thanks so much for the tip :)
Esther on 2022-10-21 (5 stars): My home economics teacher taught us this trick back in 1975! Two tips for those who are having difficulty getting the graininess out of the sugar with less powerful equipment.
• Don’t try to do too much at one time. My 40 year old cheap plastic Waring blender worked well, but I started with only 1/3 cup cane sugar. Multiple small batches is quicker than trying to do one big batch.
• PULSE the sugar. It makes the sugar rise and fall around the blades and gives a more consistent result. I even picked up the blender and shook it a couple times to mix the sugar inside. As I mentioned, it’s a 40 year old, made lotsa margaritas in the 80’s, well loved, still hanging in there but definitely tired machine.
Sandy on 2023-02-03 (5 stars): Can I use brown sugar?
AmyK on 2023-04-09 (5 stars): Wow! Started out with my food processor without much success. Everything changed once I switched to smaller batches in my 30+ yr old blender! Probably will still need to sift before making the cream cheese frosting but we’ll worth the effort!
Jen on 2023-04-11 (5 stars): This was a life saver! Tan out half way through a recipe! Blitzed up in my nutri bullet in about 30 seconds. Thanks so much!
