In my failed attempts to make some cute Easter cupcakes for the kiddos I needed some blue colored sugar. Of course, I didn’t have any, and I surely didn’t want to go to the store for a measly bottle of colored sugar. Then, I remembered my handy-dandy friend the internet, and I Googled “make your own colored sugar”. So, here are the directions, and yes they are super easy!
Start with about 1/4 cup of sugar in a small dish, something with a lid would be good.
Next add 5 drops of food coloring of your choice…I needed blue.
Then, using a small whisk, mix the food coloring through the sugar.
And last, put the lid on the bowl and shake vigorously :)
Presto! Blue sugar!
Math time! 1/4 cup of sugar costs approximately 6 cents. The food coloring I would estimate to be less than 1 cent. So, I have 1/4 cup of blue sugar for maybe 7 cents.
The best price I found online for 1/4 cup (or 2 ounces) $2.49 for a saving of $2.42, plus my time and effort to go to the store, not to mention the price of fuel these days.
This is so useful! In my country, colored sugar is like twice expensive!
This is soooo helpful. I wanted to mak valentines day cupcakes, my mom didn’t feel like going out in the snow to get spinkles so I used google and found this! thanks soo much!
Glad to be of help!
Go UK. I needed blue sprinkles for our March Madness potluck at work> Glad I found this!! Thanks!!
perfect. thanks for the recipe. i needed blue sprinkles for my red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese icing for memorial day. it worked beautifully.
So glad it was helpful! Thanks for dropping by, and come back soon.
Does the food color bleed onto the icing of the cupcakes though?
I didn’t have trouble with the coloring bleeding. If you were concerned about it, I supposed you could let the sugar dry about a bit before using it. Thanks for dropping by!
Thank you for posting this recipe. It really helped me make pink sugar sprinkle for my cupcake that I’m going to deliver later :-)
Thanks for the recipe! I was making cupcakes for a fourth of July bake sale and wanted to add a little color.
You are very welcome. Thanks for stopping by :)
thank you so much!, Where we live a 1/4 of a cup of sprinkles cost 6 bucks!
You are welcome!!!