[caesie'n'linc]

Try looking for recipes that call for confectioners sugar, that's the same as icing sugar
I have a few biscuit recipes that use it, I'll try to find them and post them for you

I'd just put the icing sugar into a container and seal it up...then write a big note on my shopping list reminding myself not to buy more LOL We do seem to use a fair bit of icing sugar though, probably 1-1.5kg/mth (I bake a lot, my family love it because I usually give half of whatever I bake to one of my sisters or to my parents LOL)

[Chelara]

You could master macarons with the pure icing sugar, also great for royal icing, do some shortbread shapes for Easter then pipe and fill designs using royal icing. You can use icing sugar in shortbread.

You could also use h pure stuff to make jams, jellies etc.

[tick]

Yo Yo biscuits. They use icing sugar in the biscuit dough and in the icing that goes between two biscuits. Delicious!

http://allrecipes.com.au/recipe/8391/yoyo-biscuits.aspx

Edited for some very strange spelling

This post has been edited by tick: 07/04/2012, 03:24 PM

[*LucyE*]

Sugar doesn't go 'off' if kept dry so you could just keep it???

[laurs]

Nigella Lawson's pistachio macaroons (you can google the recipe, just halve the filling quantities). Absolute heaven.

[*CalamityJane*]

If you have eggs, butter and almond meal, friands use icing sugar instead of sugar. (200g per dozen)

[poss71]

I've found this recipe Easy Vanilla Cake and mixed it up in my dodgy 40-something year old mixer (the non working one I have from a generous EBer many moons ago still being in pieces in DH's workshop lol). It's just come out of the oven and, while I wouldn't enter it in the Show, it will do.

I went by weight to add the icing sugar into the mix and it's got a dark crunchy crust, very sweet. Seems to me that's from too much sugar (and maybe a little bit too much heat in the -equally dodgy and equally elderly - oven).

Will let it cool and make up the icing in the morning. Will post a pic if I can pile it up high enough.

mimo, tea or coffee?

Thanks all for the other suggestions. I've managed to use one packet of icing sugar in the cake, and expect to use maybe half the icing mixture stash in the buttercream icing mixture. I'll be looking into friands and yo-yos next. While I love macarons and macaroons, I'm not the cheffy type and it would break my heart to mess them up. I'll just buy them from my fave little chocolate shop in town, where I can admire their skill without the pressure to perform!

[poss71]

Here is the end result.



Off to share with the kids and DH for morning tea. Yum! (I hope!)

Thanks again for all the suggestions.

[~mimo~]

Looks yummy Jo!

Coffee please, and I won't even mind if you use icing sugar in it!