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Why Sift Confectioners’ Sugar?

t may seem like an unnecessary step strainer for a minute or two, and you’ll
Ito sift confectioners’ sugar before have the sifted sugar in the bowl, ready
folding it into your favorite frosting, but for your recipe.
if that sugar has lumps in it, and it If you want to reduce the number of
invariably does, all the mixing in the lumps in your confectioners’ sugar, buy
world will not remove them. You can the sugar packaged in a bag rather than
grate chocolate on top of the cake to in a box. Reseal the bag tightly with a
disguise the lumps of sugar, or cover plastic bag clip or a piece of tape.
them with chopped nuts, but it would Always check the way the recipe
have been easier just to sift the sugar describes the measurement of sugar:
first. whether it is “3 cups confectioners’
The easiest way to sift confectioners’ sugar, sifted,” which means to measure,
sugar is to place a large fine-mesh then sift, or “3 cups sifted confectioners’
strainer or sieve over a medium-size sugar,” in which case the sugar needs
mixing bowl and pour the measured to be sifted and then remeasured.
sugar into the strainer; shake the

the frosting lightens and is fluffy, 2 min- 2. Use the frosting to frost the top and
utes more. Add more boiling water, a sides of the cake or cupcakes of your
teaspoon at a time, or more confection- choice.
ers’ sugar, a tablespoon at a time, if the
frosting is too thick or too thin to your
liking.