Coloured sugar

Coloured sugar… what a simple and easy to make at home decoration for cookies and cupcakes! I never thought of colouring sugar until I was browsing some websites and stumbled across the Wilton homebaking and cake decorating website where there was mention of decorating Spritz cookies (which I have also never heard of until now!) with coloured sugar. I learned how easy this is to make after a quick internet search and now have 5 bowls of coloured sugar ready to use in decoration! I did go a bit overboard in the excitement!

All you need is a thick plastic food bag, sugar (say 1 cup) and food colouring. The small dropper vials of food colourings are best because it is easier to regulate the amount of colouring that you use and it can be measured drop by drop.

For candy pink sugar, place 1 cup of sugar into the bag, add 3 drops of red food colouring and then keep scrunching the bag and moving the sugar around the bag until you see that the colour has been evenly distributed and you have evenly tinted sugar. Pour into a bowl and leave overnight to dry. When you come back to the sugar break up with a spoon if it has stuck together a little. Transfer to storing jars or bags and use it in any of your cookie or muffin decorating.