Castor sugar / caster sugar

[persik 20]

Just that basically...what is caster sugar? I was going to make some cupcakes with the recepie being from a British mag - so not sure if it's a language difference, or I just never heard of it in US?! Oh and while I'm at it - "icing sugar" ?? is that powder/confectioner's sugar??

many thanks!

[Verbatim 0]

Caster (also castor) sugar is very finely granulated sugar used in baking. Icing sugar is powdered sugar, i.e. even finer than caster sugar.

Hope that helps!

[persik 20]

so i guess my next question then is what's a german equivalent of caster sugar? i have the fine confectioner's kind - i can use that for icing...but caster auf deutsch? thanks so much! (well not that i can buy it today..)

[Small Town Boy 6,672]

Streuzucker.

[melrose 3]

I think it's called Feinster Zucker. Found it in Galleria. Not to be confused with Feiner Zucker (normal sugar). It did the job.

[koala 470]

Puderzucker is icing sugar (GB)

[Tom34 35]

One could also take normal sugar...grind it in a food processor/blender kind of thing, and you'll have fine sugar (castor sugar). Grind it as fine as you wish.

[Showem 868]

Be careful with that streuzucker translation. It might be correct, but the Streuzucker I've seen was chunky, like salt for a salt mill/grinder.

 

I'd take Tom17's suggestion and just grind it. Or be lazy and not even bother. I've never noticed a difference in quality, it just means a bit more mixing before it dissolves properly.

[garibaldi 20]

Aye, or just call a friend who has a dandruff problem.

There is no difference in the taste, however, dandruff is ever so slightly coarser in consistency.

Most really good friends would be only delighted to come over to your place and comb their hair over your freshly baked cakes.

Bad luck to "Head & Shoulders"! That gunge is making life very difficult for "Südzucker".

:angry:

[don_riina 7,406]

I'm with showem, I just use normal sugar and never notice any problems.

[kayw 65]

For anyone still interested...I just bought "Feinster Zucker" from Kaisers, and it seems to be caster sugar. The other one, "Feiner Zucker" has larger crystals, i.e. it's granulated sugar.

Happy baking!

[paulwork 731]

After tracking down the feinster zucker I eventually made my cinder toffee the other day. Yum! Now I just have to scrub my saucepans back to life :-(

 

I'm actually thinking of using an ultra thin layer of cinder toffee next time I make creme brulee. That will definately be a lot more "knackig" than those flimsy sachets of dubious dust you find the in the creme brulee mixes.

[suffolkrose 231]

then dont buy the mix its easy to make ..just set custard really with some brown sugar on top blasted with a mini blow torch ( ohhh how i love my little blow torch )

[cookie monster 4]

Is Feinster Zucker the same as confectioners sugar? I tried using it for making buttercream icing but didn't get the right result. What should be used for making these icings..like royal icing etc?

[Irenee 54]

Feinster Zucker is like caster sugar. You need Puderzucker! Puderzucker = powdered/confectioners'/icing sugar.

[osmachar 324]

 

Puderzucker is icing sugar (GB)

 

 

 

... Puderzucker = powdered/confectioners'/icing sugar.

 

Also "Staubzucker" (eg in Austria)

[HEM 11,164]

 

Caster (also castor) sugar is very finely granulated sugar used in baking.

 

I make it myself - put ordinary sugar into liquidiser (dry of course) & run for a few seconds, shake & run again.

I usually make a kg packet at a time & store in a tupperware box.

[kiplette 8,802]

I find German icing sugar to be essentially like rocks. Either boulders in the pack, or a mix of powder and smaller rocks, either way, they are rock hard and impossible to 'sieve', ha, no chance.
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Is this just me, if so, what am I doing wrong, or does anyone know if there's a brand of actual powder sugar I can buy?

Because I have icing to make. Today. And I don't want to fight the rocks.

[tor 17,530]

I know it's an extra step, but have you tried sifting it?

[kiplette 8,802]

That's the bit I can't do. These rocks are unsiftable/sievable. Even when I use the blender, they just get smaller. But still rocky.

But thanks 😀