What Kind of Sugar Do You Know?

On cooking world the usage of sugar never been forgotten, especially on the dessert menu. As we have known, there are many kind of sugar that we are using on making dessert. There are confectioner sugar, granulated sugar, icing sugar, caster sugar, and also not forgetting, brown sugar. Some people might get confused on the usage of each kind of sugar.

Granulated sugar is a white refined sugar comes in a coarse crystal size. We used to call it table-sugar. We could use it to sweetened our tea, coffee, and other things, and also we can use it in cooking. Caster sugar is more fine sugar than granulated but not as fine as icing sugar. You can make caster sugar by grinding granulated sugar a few minutes until it become super-fine. You can create a beautiful cupcake with soft texture with this caster sugar.


What is powdered sugar?
Powdered sugar is same as confectioner sugar and same also as icing sugar. They are super very fine sugar with a powdery texture. This kind of sugar can dissolve quickly in liquid so that's why icing sugar uses to make buttercream and icing decorating.


What about brown sugar?
Brown sugar made from super fine white sugar combined with molasses. Brown sugar often use to baking such as making sugar cookies, cupcakes, cakes, and many things.

Enjoy!