What Is Sugar, superfine and How Can I Use It?
If sugar, superfine has turned up in a recipe or caught your eye at the store, here's what you need to use it with confidence and how to choose it, cook it, store it, what to substitute, and 172 recipes to try it in.
What is sugar, superfine?
Superfine sugar is also know as castor sugar.
Superfine sugar is dissolved quicker and gets incorporated into things much more quickly because it's so fine.
It is especially useful in things like meringues.
You may have success grinding up regular granulated sugar using a food processor or coffee grinder until is has a superfine texture.
Nutrition
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 1 serving packet (2g)Where found
Sugar, superfine is usually found in the baking supplies section or aisle of the grocery store or supermarket.
Food group
Sugar, superfine is a member of the Sweets US Department of Agriculture nutritional food group.
How much does sugar, superfine weigh?
| Amount | Weight |
|---|---|
| 1 serving packet | 2 grams |
| 1 teaspoon | 4 grams |
| 1 cup | 200 grams |
| 1 serving 1 cube | 2 grams |
Related
Sweets
| In Chinese: | 糖，超细 | |
| British (UK) term: | ||
| en français: | sucre semoule | |
| en español: | azúcar superfino |
Recipes using sugar, superfine
There are 172 recipes that contain this ingredient.
Buttermilk Waffles with Raspberry Sauce
Buttermilk waffles with raspberry sauce trade syrup for a bright purple-red puree spiked with orange zest. The tang of buttermilk and lift from baking powder give crisp-edged waffles a fluffy interior.
Chocolate Mousse Tart with Gumleaf Cream & Wild Rosella Confit
A chocolate mousse tart with cream made from gumleaf and served with a side of rosella confit.
Chocolate Mousse Tart with Gumleaf Cream & Wild Rosella Confit
A chocolate mousse tart with cream made from gumleaf and served with a side of rosella confit.
Buttery Orange Biscuits
Buttery orange shortbread biscuits with custard powder and fresh orange zest. British-style melting moments with crisp edges and tender, crumbly centers.
Chewy-centred Chocolate Chip Cookies
Crispy at the edges and chewy in the middle. For those days when you feel like having a chewy cookie for a change.
Sesame Mini-Loaf
Soft sesame-topped mini bread loaves made from scratch with yeast dough. These individual rolls are perfect for breakfast or sandwiches.
Breakfast Ricotta Pancakes
Ricotta pancakes whisk creamy ricotta into a simple self-rising flour batter for tender, moist, custardy pancakes. A quick breakfast stack that's lovely with fresh berries, syrup, or a spoon of cream.
Breakfast Scotch Pancakes
Scotch pancakes are small, thick griddle cakes leavened with cream of tartar and baking soda for an old-fashioned tangy lift. Cook on a hot griddle, serve warm with berries and syrup.
Coconut Angel Food Cake
Coconut angel food cake folds shredded coconut into a fat-free egg-white batter, then frosts the cooled tube cake in seven-minute orange frosting and toasted coconut.
Berry Yoghurt Ice Cream
This ice cream is my favorite one, I always use low-fat yogurt, sometimes mixing more kinds of berries, very tasty and healthy!
Yummy Honey Pancakes
Honey pancakes cook thick, fluffy pancakes inside crumpet rings, drizzled with warmed honey and topped with fresh fruit. British-style tea-time pancake ready in 30 minutes.
Chorizo & Black Olive Pizza
Recipe made by the ambassador for Olives from Spain José Pizarro. Spain is the largest producer of olives in the world. The four main varieties of Spanish table olive available from major supermarkets in the UK are: Manzanilla, Gordal, Hojiblanca and Cacereña. Spanish table olives can be served in a different number of ways including: whole, pitted, stuffed with one or more ingredients such as pimento, onion, tuna, anchovy, salmon, almond, etc. It is a healthy seasonal ingredient, with the Spanish olive harvest running from September-March.
Chocolate Mocha Mud Cake
Chocolate mocha mud cake: a dense, fudgy Australian-style cake baked low and slow, then finished with a glossy chocolate-butter icing. Instant coffee deepens the chocolate without tasting like coffee.
Cranberry Cosmos
A batch cranberry cosmopolitan you mix by the pitcher, vodka, cranberry, lime, and Cointreau with a fresh ginger kick. Shake to frosty, strain into a sugar-rimmed glass, and serve a crowd.
Boozy date & Coffee Cake
Boozy date and Coffee Cake with Lime Buttercream Icing, Using Atholl Brose, a traditional Scottish Whisky liqeuer. Perfect with a cuppa' Joe :)
Christmas Pudding With Vanilla-Bean Custard
This Christmas pudding has plenty of delicious fruit and nuts, but it's really simple to make - just plan ahead and then make the warm vanilla-bean custard on the day.
Chocolate Roulade with Coffee Cream
A very decadent dessert indeed. The chocolate roulade was packed with chocolate flavor, and the coffee cream was rich, creamy and delicious. You don't need much, only one slice is enough to knock your socks off.
Chocolate Roulade with Coffee Cream
A very decadent dessert indeed. The chocolate roulade was packed with chocolate flavor, and the coffee cream was rich, creamy and delicious. You don't need much, only one slice is enough to knock your socks off.
Sheila's Mandarin Orange Cake
Sheila made this Mandarin Cake this morning to take to our Paella lunch with Spanish friends. They go crazy for it.
Favourite Coca Cola Cake
Coca Cola cake, a moist, fudgy chocolate cake with cola whisked into both the batter and the glossy poured frosting. The fizz keeps the crumb tender while a warm cocoa icing sinks right in.
Christmas Marshmallow Snowflakes
Make your own marshmallows, then cut out shapes into snow flakes; elegant looking with delicious flavour will definitely impress your family and friends at your Christmas party!
