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!
Granola bars! YUM! Would it be possible to do it sugar free like with stevia, maple syrup, honey or molasses? Cuz I don’t eat any sugar, not even sucanat:)
Xylitol is completely sugar-free.
(Also, isn’t sucanat just dried molasses? LOL sorry if I’m wrong… I always thought it was!)
So cool! I’ve seen this done with sucanat, now there are more options! And I vote for granola bars 🙂
I vote for Granola Bars.
Thanks
Wow, I had no idea you could make your own!
Oh Katie granola bars please! I tried to make some today but they just crumbled and turned into granola :C
Granola bars sound intriguing! So that’s what Imma vote for ^_^
Question for ya, Katie: Have you ever posted a recipe for a vegan pie crust? I don’t recall you doing so but I thought I should ask. And if you haven’t, I humbly request you put your vegan genius to the task. I had a “pudding and a movie” night this weekend; I served your banana bread and your cookie pie, both well-received. But we’re gonna do it again next weekend, and I want to do your fudge pie. The problem is that there are NO prepared pie crusts to be had in Japan, as far as I know D=
If you don’t have a recipe but know another way to get around it (besides crustless, I think my guests need some kind of crust-y element), lemme know! Thanks for all the awesome recipes, as always!
I know there are some good pie crust recipes out there! The only ones I have would be to do something like use my Cashew Cookie Baby recipe (or PB Cookie Dough Cookies) crumbled up and pressed into a pie pan as a crust.
Hello,
I saw your comment and while Katie has some great ideas here is another vegan blogger who has a Vegan Pie Crust, I’ve never tried it but the other things I’ve tried from HH are quite good.
http://happyherbivore.com/recipe/graham-cracker-crust/
Katie, Im no the most up to date on blogger/ing etiquette, I hope its okay to post this.
Katie – that’s an idea. or I wonder if I could make a really thin “boatmeal” crust perhaps….
Alan – Thanks for the link! Sadly, though, graham crackers are yet another thing that aren’t to be found except in specialty foreign and import shops . I wonder if I could use Japanese rice crackers for a crust, haha.
Definitely, Alan! I am always SO appreciative when people respond to each others’ comments :). And also, Lindsay/happyherbivore rocks!
Powdered brown sugar is TO DIE FOR. Really. It is.
Granola bars!!
Granola bars!!!!! I’ve been searching high and low for a good granola bar recipe that is healthy and simple!
Oh my word, I’ve been wondering if something like this would work. Yay! Can I try it with Splenda? That’s all I have. I’m assuming I would use the granulated one that measures cup by cup as sugar. Love it Katie!
The article said that would work.
Just found your blog….I’d have to say COOKIES! 🙂
Granola bars pretty please
Cool idea!
Funny when you said your Vitamix smoked a little. One of the very first times I ever used my Vitamix, I was making raw vegan brownies and the batter was so thick and dense, my Vita started smoking and overheated.
I vote granola bars!
we have made our own powder sugar before in the past, but never thought about using it with other sugars! thanks for the idea
xoxo
This seriously blew my mind! Love it! Aaand my vote would be for granola bars 🙂