Reviewed: Nov. 12, 2009

I used the previous reviewers advice to add the gel to water to get more vibrant colors. It worked perfectly.

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LILYKATE

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Reviewed: Oct. 31, 2009

Very easy to make. And it's a pretty decoration.. Just a little tip I picked up, if you get food coloring on your hands, you can wash your hands with an SOS pad. Only down side to this recipe is that when I sprinkled it on sugar cookie icing it melted into the icing.

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cakenbake

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Home Town: Temecula, California, USA

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Reviewed: Sep. 10, 2009

I make this sugar all the time...it is so much cheaper than buying it at the store! I use more coloring to get deeper shades. Thanks for sharing!

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larkspur

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Home Town: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Living In: Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, USA

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Reviewed: Jul. 5, 2009

This is awesome! The stuff in the stores is so expensive. I used more drops of color than called for but this stuff is great and I will use it over and over again!

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momof2

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Reviewed: Jun. 21, 2009

Awesome! This worked perfectly. I had spent so much money getting all the ingredients for a cupcake themed baby shower...and forgot the colored sugar...and I didn't want to go back out for that, or spend 5 bucks on it. I used some barely diluted color paste. Put 1/2 cup sugar in a Ziploc bag...added a couple color drops, Viola! Worked like a charm.

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DEANA

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Reviewed: May 9, 2009

Duh... *coloring + sugar = colored sugar* I feel like a dope for buying the stuff! Thank you for adding this recipe!!

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AnaAH

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Reviewed: Apr. 11, 2009

This was way to easy and fun, especially when you have kids to get involved. I used zilpoc baggies and got my kids to shake them up, and they had fun doing so. But trick is, when using liquid food coloring the darker you want your sugar to be, the more drops you put in with the sugar. Still quick, easy, simple, and cost effectively cheap...no more buying the colored sprinkles when I can do it myself...even using decorator's sugar crystals work well. 5 stars all the way.

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mis7up

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Reviewed: Apr. 9, 2009

My grandma used to do this when I was a kid. It's an easy and economical way to make your own colored sugar. I use the larger grain sugar. To make pink, just add a small drop of red food coloring and get to shaking! It won't be a bright pink, but more a pastel color! Great for Easter.

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Reviewed: Apr. 1, 2009

What a great idea, why didn't I think of it? I had everything in the house to make my grandson's birthday cake except "sprinkles". Shook it up in a little Tupperware container, so what is left over can stay right in it! This will be perfect, and I don't have to go to the store!

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Glo P.

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Living In: Winthrop Harbor, Illinois, USA

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Reviewed: Mar. 14, 2009

My kids love this, just to do it... My daughter did it and added it to sugar cookie butterfly cuts with cream cheese icing, they were so pretty!

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KirstiBug

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Reviewed: Mar. 1, 2009

I always preferred the store bought colored sugar over making my own because the crystals were bigger. When I found a large container of white sugar crystals, I knew it was more economical to color my own. I had no moisture problems using the large sugar crystals.

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SHORECOOK

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Reviewed: Feb. 24, 2009

I was surprised at how well this turned out! I was skeptical at first because I had food coloring paste. I added some sugar in 3 baggies and made yellow, green, and purple for my Mardi Gras King Cake. The colored sugar looked wonderful!

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JOSEPHINE aka SPITFIRE FOODIE

Living In: Kingwood, West Virginia, USA

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Reviewed: Feb. 9, 2009

I did this to make pink sugar for some valentines cookies and it worked really well! I just put it in a plastic bag and worked with it until it was a uniform color!! Thank you for the recipe, I had no idea how easy it was to color sugar!!

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ElizabethLeigh

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Reviewed: Feb. 8, 2009

Wow! I can't believe I didn't review this recipe when I used it back around Christmastime! This sugar worked really well as a decoration for Christmas cookies as well as a coating for truffles. After coloring the sugar, I spread it out in a baking dish and put it in a 250 degree F oven, stirring every 5 minutes until it was no longer moist. Make sure you put plenty of color in, because the color does dull a bit as it dries.

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Keri

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Reviewed: Jan. 9, 2009

What an ingenious idea! It's such a simple recipe/idea that I wonder why I never thought of it before?! I used 1/2C of sugar and about 7 drops of colouring, combined it well in a ziplioc bag and poured it out on a sheet of tinfoil to dry. I'll never buy coloured sugar again. You can make as much as you need without any waste! Hmm..I wonder if I put a squirt or two of my favorite extract in as well if it would work? Vanilla sugar? Yummy, thanks for a great recipe!

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Reviewed: Dec. 30, 2008

simply the best idea EVER!! It is one of those... "why havn't I thought of this before" recipes :)

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Lauren

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Reviewed: Dec. 23, 2008

This was soo great to make. I sang the Casey and the Sunshine Band song, "Shake Your Booty", while my kids and I shook the containers. Now we have a rainbow of colored to sprinkle on our sugar cookies.

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Rustymom

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Living In: Rowlett, Texas, USA

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Reviewed: Dec. 22, 2008

PERFECT! Worked out great. Just be sure to lay it out on a plate for a while if it's too moist for spreading onto icing or cookies! Kids loved making the colored sugar!

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Reviewed: Dec. 21, 2008

Thank you so much for the recipe Sue. I forgot to buy some yesterday and it was too cold to go to the store today. Easy recipe. I shook it up in a ziploc bag - works and tastes great.

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stephandsophia

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Reviewed: Dec. 18, 2008

Sweet. Let the sugar dry on some tin foil or something after you color it, and if it's got clumps run it through the sieve or sifter. Perfect!

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