Confectioners and White Sugar?

Question

I hav ea recipie for sugar cookies. It calls for confectioners and white sugar. Is white sugar powdered sugar and confectioners normal sugar? If there diferent is it necessary to use the special sugars

Answer 1

white sugar is granulated sugar - it is in little squares like salt.

confectioners sugar is white sugar that has been ground fine - it contains about 3 tablespoons of cornstarch per pound.

you cannot make powdered sugar in a food processor. you can grind sugar to a much finer consistency, but it isn't exactly the same and won't perform the same in your recipe.

neither sugar is considered special.

your recipe calls for both, most likely, because each type of sugar brings a different function to the mix. it is a long, science like lesson - learning about sugar - and it's boring - unless you are a baking geek like me - so suffice it to say, please use both.

hope that helps a bit.

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Confectioners and White Sugar?
I hav ea recipie for sugar cookies. It calls for confectioners and white sugar. Is white sugar powdered sugar and confectioners normal sugar? If there diferent is it necessary to use the special sugars

Answer 4

In a recipe, when it calls for sugar, it means regular white sugar; Confectioners and powdered is the same thing, used for icings or frostings, for cookies, cakes etc. but sometimes in other cooking. Actually , it is made from regular white sugar, plus cornstarch in a blender. It can be xxxx meaning fine to 10 X meaning ultra fine. I think what we get at the store is probably a xxxx powdered/confectioners, good luck ! Evie

Answer 5

You have to use what is called for for the best results. Confectioners sugar is icing sugar and white sugar is granulated sugar. They are 2 very different types.

Answer 6

White sugar is the regular, granulated sugar. Confectioner's sugar is powdered sugar -- sometimes referred to as icing sugar, and it is usually used for making frostings for cakes. I'm not sure what your recipe specifies for each of the sugars, but you should be OK if you have only the regular, granulated sugar (unless the confectioner's sugar is meant to be used as a snowy effect for the tops of cookies -- but it shouldn't matter much, apart from appearance.)

Answer 7

Question?
I have been making fudge, I am trying 10 different recipes (times 2, peanut butter & choc. for each), some call for confectioners sugar and some for white sugar. So far the ones using the white sugar have turned out runny and do not solidify (more cooking & more temp sensitive too). I believe they meant powdered or confectioners sugar, but typed white (southern region recipes). I am retrying each using the sugar I think appropriate.
What do you think? wish me luck. and send me some weight watchers info.

Answer 8

Is White Sugar Powdered Sugar

Answer 9

Other way around. Normal Sugar is white sugar and Confectioners Sugar is powdered Sugar. If you don't have Powdered Sugar you can always make it by putting regular sugar in the food processor and pulse until it is fine and powdered. : )

Answer 10

Not quite. Powdered sugar is 'confectioners' and white is the usual baking sugar. Follow the recipe as it says to. If you don't have any powdered sugar, mixing 1 cup white sugar with 1 tbsp cornstarch will do the trick.