How to Make Homemade Colored Sugar

Colored sugar can make holiday cookies festive.

Colored sugar is like edible glitter. Plain white sugar can be transformed into any color with the help of powdered food coloring. Holiday cookies will benefit from this treatment, and an assortment of these sparkly treats would make a great holiday gift. Make some cutout star-shaped cookies with a dusting of powder blue-colored sugar or spruce up a Christmas tree-shaped treat with some bright-green sugar. Powdered food coloring is readily available at cake-supply and craft stores.

Things You'll Need

• 1 cup sugar
• Powdered food coloring
• Bowls
• Toothpick

Instructions

1. Place 1/4 cup of sugar in a bowl.

2. Dip a toothpick in the powdered food coloring of choice.

3. Stir the sugar in the bowl with the food coloring-covered toothpick.

4. Continue to add more food coloring to the sugar in the same manner with the toothpick until the desired shade of colored sugar is achieved.

References

• "The Christmas Cookie Book"; Lou Seibert Pappas; Chronicle Books; 2001
• "Decorated Cookies"; Lisa Slatter; Search Press; 2010