Sanding sugars are really nothing more than course-grain sugar tinted with coloring. You can even make your own if you're feeling industrious! Their multifaceted surfaces catch the light and make baked goods glitter not only cookies, but frosted cupcakes, layer cakes, muffins, and scones.
Sanding sugar needs something to stick to (rather like making glitter pictures with glue in grade school!). Decorate cookies, cupcakes, and cakes with icing or frosting first, and then sprinkle with sanding sugar. To add sparkle to muffins and scones, sprinkle the sanding sugar over the tops just before baking. The sugar will stick to the dough, but won't melt during baking, so the baked goods emerge warm and sparkling.
The range of available colors is much greater these days than my mother's basic set of green and red! You can pick up sanding sugars in almost every color of the rainbow at Williams Sonoma and King Arthur Flour.
Sanding Sugars, $7.95 at Williams Sonoma
Sparkling Sugars, $3.50 at King Arthur Flour
Do you ever use sanding sugars? Any tips or favorite uses?
Related: Cookie Recipe: Glittering Lemon Sandwich Cookies
(Image: Williams Sonoma)
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