How Do You Make Cookie Decorating Sugar?
Cookies are delicately delicious confections, and knowing how to make cookie decorating sugar can give any cookie recipe a special touch with a burst of glittery color. While it is easy to buy decorating sugar and sprinkles for sugar cookies, the range of color choices is limited, but making a rainbow of sugar colors is quick and easy. Place granulated sugar into the plastic bag and zip closed. Knead the bag gently to break up any lumps in the sugar. Open bag. Add 3 to 4 drops of food coloring spaced around the interior of the bag and close the bag. Knead the bag gently but thoroughly until the color is distributed evenly throughout the sugar. Add a second color if desired and repeat Step 4. Add red and yellow colors to make orange sugar, for example, or red and blue colors for purple decorating sugar. Cut off one corner of the bag with a small snip. Pour the sugar through the cut corner into the shaker spice bottle for storage. Decorate sugar cookies as desired by sprinkling colored s
