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icing sugar

icing sugar

1 1.6
Very finely powdered sugar used to make sweet toppings and decorations
  • noun
  • /ˈaɪsɪŋ ˈʃʌɡər/
  • UK
translation icon : azúcar glas
  • To make the frosting, you need to combine butter with icing sugar until creamy.
  • dust with icing sugar
  • cups of icing sugar

All right, four cups of icing sugar and my future cavities.

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Examples

  • You do that, I'll weigh out mixed together the butter, icing sugar and vanilla and egg yolk.

  • And what's that stuff on top? - Icing sugar.

    The Castle (1997)

  • It's all sugar, flour, icing sugar, stuff like that.

  • All right, four cups of icing sugar and my future cavities.

    Allana Davison

  • So the sugar plate recipe is made from icing sugar, gum tragicanth and rose water.

  • I also used a chocolate buttercream filling, which was made by substituting 1 tbsp of icing sugar for cocoa powder.

    Blog text (15)

  • So grab your biscuit and you simply want to put the icing sugar in a wiggly kind of melted snowman shape onto your biscuit.

  • She sprinkled some icing sugar on top of the cake for decoration.

  • Make sure to sift the icing sugar before using it to avoid lumps in your icing.

Synonyms

powdered sugar
vsicing sugar
  • US
13 1.0

Fine sugar used for baking and sprinkling on desserts

is even finer and mainly for making frostings and decorations in baking

How Fine

icing sugar
  • UK
1 1.6
caster sugar
  • UK
3.4

Surface Forms

icing sugar singular
icing sugars plural
confectioners sugars plural
icing sugars plural
confectioners' sugar singular
icing sugar singular

Morphology

icing + sugar

The meaning 'a very finely powdered sugar used for making icings' is directly derivable from combining 'icing' (a sugary coating) with 'sugar' (a sweet ingredient): it denotes the sugar intended for icing. This noun–noun compounding follows regular English composition patterns and has clear parallels in other languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.

Etymology

Icing sugar gets its name from the sugar's use in cake 'icing' or 'frosting'. Because it is ground very fine, it makes a smooth, snowy topping when sprinkled, so the name now means the very fine sugar used for icings and decorations.