How to Make Powdered Sugar in a Blender
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For when you’re out of powdered sugar and not about to put on real pants to go get some.
Prep time: However long it takes to open a bag of sugar
Cook time: None, we’re blending, not cooking
Yield: About however much sugar you started with, give or take some settling
Ingredients:
- 1 to 2 cups regular granulated white sugar
Instructions:
- Pour the sugar into your blender. I use the Breville Super Q on the MILL setting, but any blender or food processor with a mill or pulverize function will do the same job.
- Select MILL speed.
- Run it for 15 to 30 seconds. You’re looking for a fine, powdery texture, not something gritty like sand.
- Let the jug sit for a second before you take the lid off. Open it too fast, and you will inhale powdered sugar dust.
- Use it exactly like the store-bought stuff, because that’s what it is now.
Notes:
Don’t panic if your blender jug looks a little cloudy or scratched after this. Milling granulated sugar does that. It’s cosmetic, it doesn’t mean you broke anything, and it happens no matter how nice your blender is.
Store what you don’t use in an airtight container. Powdered sugar left out in the open will pull in moisture and clump on you.
