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!
Hi Katie, I’m very interested in this xilitol powdered recipe. I do have some reservations. I want to frost a cake. It’s not a enormous cake, I think 8″ round. I’m nervous about the laxative effects of Xilitol. I don’t want to send everyone to the bathroom. Do you think a slice would do that?
Can I use Stevia? Will it have the same outcome?
Thanks!
SF powder sugar is just xylitol? I’m confused…Explain Please 🙂
Katie, do you have a cookbook with your excellent recipes in it?
I know I’m not Katie, but I know the answer because I just bought three copies haha!
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/chocolate-covered-katie-katie-higgins/1119439699?ean=9781455599707
Would this also work with coconut sugar? 🙂
Yup!
Where is it possible to find Sucanot and also Xylitol? Thanks JoAnn
It depends on where you live.
But Whole Foods, a health food store, or Amazon or Swansonvitamins.com
Thank you, thank you, thank you. You have opened up a new door and brought my family into a new world. First my son who is type 1 diabetic (insulin dependent) and my daughter and I are allergic to wheat amd MSG have now been able to love food again. I was a typical southern cook and 22 years ago I had to learn to cook ‘sugar free’. We had sweet n low and equal to choose from then came splenda. Well I didn’t feel good about any of these choices and aspertame was out of the question. It was a challenge, but do able. Then we learned that my daughter and I are allergic to wheat and MSG. So I really had to rethink our entire way of eating to a much more healthful way. As I am again relearning all things about food,cooking and our health and life choices it has been an amazing adventure to being healthy and eating well. But the best part about having ‘hick-ups’ is your blog! We can eat GREAT tasting food again and be HEALTHY too!
LOL I kept seeing sugar free powdered sugar in your recipes and I have been trying to find it in stores. Of course I haven’t found it in the stores and realized you made it! MAkes so much more sense haha!
Would it work with Erythritol?
Would this work for coconut sugar?
Yup.
Can I use Truvia and grind it to make this?
Just used your powdered xylitol to make the chocolate egg copycats and they turned out amazing albeit not as pretty as the picture. The leftover chocolate sauce also made an amazing topping for so delicious ice cream- JUST LIKE MAGIC SHELL!
Can the “One minute chocolate cake in a mug” also be made as a whole cake? If so, what would the portions of ingred. then be?
What is the brand of your favorite choc. fudge frosting you used?
Can I use coconut flour for this recipe?
Do you first liquefy the coconut oil before using in this recipe? Or just measure it as a solid?
Is cane juice a dry ingred., or liquid. Can I get it at Dierbergs super market, here in St. Louis, Mo? Or at a Trader Joes, or Whole Foods store? Your recipes are very interesting.
Thanks,
Mary Schroeder
Use this recipe for a larger cake. It is not recommended to use coconut flour, and yes cane juice is a dry ingredient. It is basically regular sugar and can be found at Whole Foods. Or just use regular sugar.
https://lett-trim.today/2014/09/08/100-calorie-chocolate-cake/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
would stevia also work or not? I heard bad stuff about fake sugars, so I would be a little worried about that….
can i sub xylitol with stevia?
Hi! I’m just curious if anyone has tried coconut milk powder. I’ve read that it can be used as a replacement for powdered sugar. I know it’s probably not as sweet, but it seems a lot healthier.