Baking in Color ~ Colored Sugar

Instead of spending the money for store-bought sugar sparkles for cookies and cupcakes, make your own in whatever shade you want.

Put the desored amount of sugar in a coffee mug. Add a little food coloring, using liquid coloring for pastel shades, and gel coloring for deeper shades. Stir with a spoon until evenly distributed. It may clump at first, but keep stirring. If it hasn't smoothed out after stirring for 3 minutes, add more sugar.

The finished product should be the consistency of fresh brown sugar. If too wet, add more sugar.

Put a paper towel on a plate. Dump the mixture on the towel to dry, stirring every few hours. When completely dry, sift and put into clean salt and pepper shakers.

This is a lot of fussing around, but if you want a special color, this is a way to get it.