Review of making castor sugar

[judydawn]

I decided to make my own castor sugar today for the first time so followed the instructions on page 6 in the Summary Table of the EDC.  The time stated almost turned it into icing sugar so I made another lot and adjusted the time and speed downwards to make perfect castor sugar.  Try 2 seconds on speed 8 and not that stated in the book. Was it just me or have others found this too.

[I Love Bimby!]

Good work JD. I was told 5 seconds - but it looks like icing sugar anyway. So now I just make icing sugar - figure it should't affect the recipe too much.

Thank you for testing 

[Chelsea (Thermie Groupie)]

I normally do about 3 seconds on speed 8 with raw sugar and 5 seconds on speed 8 with rapadura.  The end result seems to vary depending on how sharp my blades are. 

[Thermomixer]

Thanks JD - yes, it doesn't take long at all - fortunately there aren't many instances where you couldn't use the icing style sugar in recipes.

It is harder to get all the dust out if you  make icing sugar though.

[judydawn]

I made 3 batches of the castor sugar to fill up my container - has got to be cheaper than buying it ready made.  I agree, icing sugar is messy, fluffy stuff that gets up your nose so I do prefer to work with castor sugar if that what the recipe calls for.