Hello and welcome to Cupcake Addiction's Colored Sanding Sugar Tutorial where I'll be showing
you how to make this beautiful colored sanding sugar at home.
Tools and equipment that we will be using today:
I've got a baking tray and just a piece of greaseproof, wax, or baking paper.
I've got a half a cup of caster sugar.
So caster sugar is your really fine sugar, not powdered, just the finest baking sugar
you can find.
I've got some food coloring.
I'm going to use liquid food coloring and mine's just blue today.
I've got a zip lock bag.
I'm going to use this great little scraper.
If you don't have one of these, you can just use a knife.
But I find the scraper's a little bit easier to use.
And I've got a nice, big rolling pin.
Let's get started.
The first thing we want to do is empty our sugar into a zip lock bag.
Now you've all seen me use sanding sugar in a couple of my tutorial and it's a great way
to get a really nice effect that you can make yourself at home.
So if you don't have the right color sprinkles, you can just whip yourself up some sanding
sugar.
So pop that sugar in a bag, your zip lock bag.
Take your coloring.
And we're just going to put 1 cup-full of liquid coloring.
You can also use color paste.
But I find it easier to mix through a liquid coloring.
I find that color paste sometimes gets a little bit chunky in there and it's hard to mix it
all the way through.
Give that bag a really good shake around.
And you'll see there, as your color gets coated, you just need to push it down.
We basically just want to mix all of that color through.
Alright, so you can see there, that gorgeous color has now mixed all the way through.
So what we're going to do is we're going to pop our sugar onto that baking tray.
Just kind of dump it on.
Obviously, if you want a paler color or a pastel color, you would just less of that
food coloring.
I want to quite deep colors for my sanding sugars.
Now I'm going to take, either your knife or my scraper, and I'm just going to kind of
chop it around so that I've got 1 nice, even layer.
Alright, so I've got my nice, even layer.
And the reason I've done that is so that we don't have 1 big mountain of sanding sugar
in the middle.
So I've pre-heated my oven to 50 degrees Celsius or 120 degrees Fahrenheit and I'm going to
pop this into the oven for 10 minutes.
Alright, so that's had 10 minutes in the oven.
Now don't be tempted to put anymore heat into it than just that 50 degrees Celsius or a
120 degrees Fahrenheit because you will melt it and it will turn into kind of a glass.
But it should have a little bit of a sparkle to it.
And you can see here, it's kind of stuck together in kind of clamps.
So that's where our little scraper or knife comes in again.
Just break it up.
The [more] we've done by cooking it into the oven is we've not only taken moisture out
of it which would have been put in there by the liquid food coloring.
But we've also given it a little bit of a shimmer.
So it's kind of a...It's got a little bit of a sparkle to it.
Lift up your baking paper and pour it in.
Now you want to let as much of the air out of that zip lock bag as you can.
Make sure that you do zip it all the way up.
And you see here, you've got your little, kind of blue chunks in that bag.
So this is where your rolling pin comes in.
We're just going to roll it back and forth until it's beautiful and fine, back to that
sugary consistency.
But now it's a great shade of blue.
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can use this fantastic sanding sugar.
In a nutshell, there you have your gorgeous, blue sanding sugar.
We'll tip that into a nice, little container.
You can see there in an array of colors.
As I said, you can make them pastels, you can make them brights, you can make them absolutely
any color you like.
As always, I hope that you've enjoyed this tutorial and thanks very much for watching.