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More Things to Do With Sanding Sugar
Published 30 August 2012 by Cake Decorating
Texture is such an important part of cake decorating and sanding sugar is a great way to achieve a sparkling, 'jewelled' finish and an interesting mouthfeel, all in one. Sanding sugar is sugar with large, thick crystalline granules. It doesn't melt when you bake it, nor does it lose its sparkling effect like other types of sugar used in cake decorating. You can buy sanding sugar from The Cake Decorating Company, as well as a host of other UK vendors.
If you don't know how to add food colourings and gels to sanding sugar, then check out this quick tutorial here.
Use sanding sugar to add texture to lettering
In this tutorial, Kotomi of Bake Greek teaches us how to add texture to simple fondant lettering. This style of using sanding sugar adds a soft and delicate flair to ordinary lettering and can be used on cookies as well as cakes. The simplicity of the design is its charm. To complete this tutorial, you will need a letter cutter, fondant paste, sanding sugar in your colour of choice and a clean brush for cake decorating.
Use sanding sugar to add define fun cookie shapes
This tutorial is pretty similar but this time you'll be learning how to decorate a set of ladybird and flower cookies. You can purchase the ladybird cookie cutters from here. We really love the vivid pink colour of these cookies. Look at the delicate green and black dot piping around the yellow centers of the daisies. These look as stunning and delicious as they taste.
Sanding sugar-decorated panda mini cupcakes from Bakerella
Bakerella does it again with these adorable little panda-faced mini chocolate cupcakes. Her instructions are simple, easy to follow and there are step-by-step photos to make sure that you get them right the first time around. Cute and delicious. The sanding sugar is applied simply by dipping the iced cupakes, making this a great, non-fiddly way to try out sanding sugar for the first time.
Have a Ball cake pops from Bakerella
Have one more from Bakerella! If there's one thing that the crafty cake blogger is famous for, it's her attention to detail. Don't be put off by how polished these cake pops look, Bakerella makes it easy with her tutorial on creating these summery beach ball cake pops.
Do you have any ideas of your own for using sanding sugar? We'd love to see some of your original projects.
A few boxes of home-coloured sanding sugar are great to have ready and waiting in your cake decorating kit. An edge or a surface brushed or dipped in sanding sugar adds a professional edge to your decorating projects - it's all about attention to detail.