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How To Make Your Own Colored Sugar

You’ll never believe how easy it is to make your own colored sugar at home!

You'll never believe how easy it is to make your own colored sugar at home! This is the a great alternative to buying colored sugar at the store! | Mom On Timeout

I stumbled upon this idea last month while making cookies for Bryce’s birthday party. The boys decided they wanted to frost and decorate some cookies we had made but I didn’t have any colored sugar. After a moment of thought I decided I would try to make my own colored sugar.
My first attempt was putting the sugar in a small bowl, dropping in the food color and then using a fork to mix it all up – that was not successful. Next I tried putting the sugar in a plastic bag and shaking it up – success!

The boys and I had so much fun making a variety of colors. I let them choose how many drops of each color we would put in and then they would guess how it would turn out. The yellow food coloring fooled them more than once because it looks orange 😉 

This is so easy you are never going to buy store-bought colored sugar again!

What you will need:

Plastic bags
food color
sugar – (granulated for smaller crystal or raw sugar for larger crystals)


Put a couple of tablespoons of sugar into a small plastic bag. Add a drop or two of food color into the bag. Seal the bag and shake it up. If the sugar starts to clump, just use your fingers to massage the clumps away. Keep working at it until the color is nice and uniform.

Try mixing up the food color to create amazing and vibrant color variations.

 

 

I enlisted the help of my little guys and had lots of bags going on at one time. The more the merrier!

 

 

This is what the granulated sugar looks like:

diy-colored-sugar

And this is what the raw sugar looks like:

raw-colored-sugar

This would be super fun with the neon food color that is available as well. The sugar can be stored in the plastic bags or in an airtight container. Now you don’t have to limit your decorating to the colors you find in the store. I am certainly excited to have some awesome cookie decorating parties this holiday season.

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Comments

  2. pipigirl says

    wow, how cool. me and grandbabes gonna have some fun. thanks for sharing. appreciate it. gonna save me LOTS of money AND i must say. i think it looks WAY better than store bought. WAY BETTER!!! thanks again, sue

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  6. April @ The 21st Century Housewife says

    Perfect timing! I’m struggling to find coloured sugar easily here in England and I’d love some for my sugar cookies! Thank you for sharing this wonderful tip. I’d love it if you would share this post on the Gallery of Favorites on my site today if you have time.

    Reply

  15. Jamie says

    I thought I was following you but I guess not. Following you now!! Thank you for this tutorial. My girls will love it! I love your blog. I’m your newest follower.
    Would love to see you DIY Home Sweet home.
    Jamie
    http://diyhshp.blogspot.com/

    P.S. More the Merrier Monday end tonight so stop by and link up if you have not already.

    Reply

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