How to make sugar free powdered sugar, which works for any recipe that calls for regular powdered sugar. It’s SO easy!
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow…
Is it snowing where you are?
As usual, Dallas weather doesn’t know what it wants to do. So it vacillates from 25 to 75 and back again.
Shorts one day, fleece pants the next. Always on our toes.
No snow here yet, but I do have white powder of a different sort: sugar-free powdered sugar. (Oxymoron?)
Every Christmas for as long as I can remember, my mom has made multiple batches of pixie cookies (the little chocolate crinkle cookies, dusted with powdered sugar).
Last month I decided it was time to try creating a healthier, vegan version of those crowd-friendly chocolate pixies. In my quest to “healthify” the recipe, I landed on an about.com article describing how to turn Splenda into powdered sugar.
This got me to thinking, “If you can do it with Splenda, why not with other sweeteners?”
So I tried it, first with Sucanat and then with Xylitol.
Both times, it worked!
Sugar Free Powdered Sugar
Ingredients
- 1 cup granulated sweetener of choice, such as coconut sugar or erythritol
- optional 1-2 tsp arrowroot or cornstarch, to prevent clumping when stored
Instructions
- Blend all ingredients in a blender. It’ll smoke a little, but that’s okay. You should have powdered sugar in a matter of seconds! Store in a covered container in the pantry, just as you’d store regular powdered sugar.Healthy Glaze Icing:Combine 1 cup of the above powdered sugar with 1 1/2 tbsp milk of choice and 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract. Use in place of regular powdered sugar icing, on cookies or cupcakes, etc.
- Shown above on Cinnamon Roll Baked Oatmeal.
Notes
And now I’m going to return to eating my chocolate pixie cookies. Hope you all have a lovely day!
These are delicious! One thing though – when I made the coconut oil and milk mixture I didn’t think to warm the almond milk and the coconut oil hardened. Might want to give us newbie bakers a heads up that that’ll happen:)
Just posted on Katie’s Healthy Krispy Kreme post about a tip when using a spice/coffee mill. To remove any stale smells from your mill, grind up some dry raw rice and throw that away before adding in your expensive Xylitol. It saves it tasting of curry, ha, ha and the spice mill works a treat. My blender is just a standard one and found that even after quite some time ‘blending’ the xylitol is was still not powdery enough so used my mill instead.
Wondering…I have a food processor and a stick blender, but not a regular blender. Do you think either would work to make the powdered sugar? Seems like the food processor would just whirl it around…
I recently tried making this glaze on a carrot cake and it turned out to crystalize once I put the icing on. Do you know why that might be? I used xylitol if that makes a difference.
Can this be made using truvia or a stevia-sugar blend as well?
Hi – I love the taste of the lemon bars, but I don’t like the color! I made my own powdered sugar using a sucanat and coconut sugar mix, but it makes it turn a dirty brown. I don’t want to use “regular” sugar, although I know the color would be much better. Also, I don’t use any of the “ol’s” (xylitol, etc.) Any suggestions for a more appetizing color? P.S. I love, love. LOVE all your recipes I’ve tried so far!!
I made it with coconut sugar just now for your peanut butter eggs. Very delicious. But it didn’t grind up as well as I would have liked. I have a Ninja blender, I think, and that might have been the problem. I guess it just doesn’t grind well.
Thank you!
What kinda of VitaMix do you use? I’ve been looking into getting something like that but never have and it’s a little confusing.
Mine is like 10 years old, so it’s pretty basic. Still works well!
Thanks.
Careful with Xylitol, its an instant pet killer.
just be super super careful if you buy xylitol and have a dog! dogs can die from ingesting extremely small amounts of the stuff, so take the necessary precautions to keep it securely out of their way.
How are artificial sugar substitutes “healthier?”
None of the sweeteners I have listed in the post are artificial.
I used to think Xylitol was from the birch tree but if you try to find the source on the packages in stores, it won’t tell you they get it from CORN – most likely GMO! :~( You also need to be careful with sugars in how they process them because many are NOT VEGAN – just wanted to share this important information.
Blessings
Hi Lana,
Thanks for the comment… You do have to watch out for that! I don’t know about other brands, but according to the Xyla company, their brand comes from birch.
Question: Do you think this could be made with Truvia or stevia?
I made it with coconut sugar, and that was only too awesome.
Thank you!
I forgot who introduced me to your site by posting your Single Serving Chocolate Chip Cake in a Mug post/recipe, but OMG am I grateful for the introduction to your site! Today I made the cake in mugs, and it was amazing. Now I’m exploring your site and am totally excited to make these things. I’m vegan, healthy with my food consumption and don’t really eat sweets (nor do I crave them). However, I am so happy seeing these and they are really so exciting that I’m fine with cheating a couple of times a week for these delicious treats!!! 🙂 Thank you!
I actually make this with my coffee grinder… 😀
Do you think you could make the sugar free powdered sugar using Stevia powder? I use Pyure organic sweetener. The ingredients are: “Organic Agave Inulin, Organic Reb A (Stevia Extract), natural flavor.”
Sorry, I’ve never tried. I guess I’m confused because isn’t stevia already powder?