powdered sugar
糖粉· tang fen
pantry
Taste & Role
🍯 Sweet
Its fine texture lets it dissolve instantly, making it ideal for smooth frostings, glazes, and icings, as well as for dusting over finished pastries. In Chinese baking it is used in delicate doughs for mooncakes, snow skin pastries, and butter cookies, where it creates a finer, more tender crumb than granulated sugar.
What it is
Powdered sugar, also called confectioners' sugar or icing sugar, is granulated sugar ground into a fine, flour-like powder. In the US it typically contains a small amount of cornstarch to prevent clumping, and it is sold in grades such as 6X and 10X, with 10X being the finest and most common.
Nutrition
per 100 g- Calories
- 385 kcal
- Protein
- 3.85 g
- Total fat
- 17.3 g
- Carbs
- 53.8 g
- Fiber
- 1.9 g
- Sodium
- 481 mg
USDA FoodData Central (closest standard match)
Substitutes
No registered substitutes — this one is usually easy to find.
Recipes using it
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