Splenda Icing Sugar Mix DIY

Splenda® Icing Sugar Mix DIY. © Healthy Canning / 2021

You can easily make your own Splenda® icing sugar (also known as confectioner’s sugar).

It’s the powdery-type of white sugar that is used to ice cakes with.

This helps to keep calorie count lower on desserts, and to make desserts more accessible for diabetics.

This mix when made up will make an icing, as in a glaze, rather than a thick frosting.

Instead of brand-name Splenda®, you can use a generic brand of sucralose. You might even wish to try another sweetener such as a powdered stevia product which by volume measures one-to-one with the Splenda® measurements mentioned below.

(There’s a zillion recipes already on the web on how to do this with regular white sugar, so the world doesn’t need us repeating them here. Here’s a Google search link for them: make your own confectioners sugar.)

See also: DIY Brownie Mix

The recipe

Yield: Makes 2 cups / 150 g plain icing sugar. This is enough mix for 4 batches of icing.

This mix recipe is easily doubled or tripled.

Print

Splenda® Icing Sugar Mix DIY

How to make a large batch of Splenda® icing sugar ready for use

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Prep Time 15 minutes

Servings 4 Batches

Calories 124kcal

Metric - US Customary

Equipment

• Blender

Ingredients

• 75 g Splenda® (3 cups)
• 8 tablespoons Cornstarch (½ cup)

Metric - US Customary

Instructions

• Wash hands with soap and water.  Ensure worksurface is clean.
• In an electric blender, blend 1 cup (25 g) of the Splenda® with 3 tablespoons of cornstarch until very finely powdered.
• Empty into a bowl.
• Repeat process until all is mixed (yes, at the final step there will only be 2 tbsp cornstarch).
• Stir gently to mix all the batches into each other.
• Store in a tightly sealed jar or container.

Notes

Blend 1 to 2 cups (25 to 50 g) of Splenda® at a time for best results. This is the reason for not just whacking it all at once into the blender jug, though you are welcome to try that the first time out if you wish and see if you get results you are happy with.

 

The mix recipe is easily doubled or tripled, but still it's best to blend only a cup or two at a time.

Nutrition

Serving: 4batches | Calories: 124kcal | Carbohydrates: 32g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 1mg | Potassium: 1mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 15g | Calcium: 1mg | Iron: 1mg

To use the mix to make icing

Print

Splenda® Icing

Icing for cakes, cupcakes, brownies, etc, from Splenda

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Prep Time 10 minutes

Servings 1 batch

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon margarine (low-fat marg. Or any type of marg or butter you prefer.)
• ½ teaspoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon water (or milk)
• ½ cup Splenda® Icing Sugar Mix

Instructions

• Mix the margarine (or butter), vanilla and water with a fork in a bowl.
• Blend in the Splenda® Icing Sugar Mix.
• Use as desired.

Notes

To make chocolate icing, blend 1 teaspoon of unsweetened cocoa powder in which the margarine, vanilla and water.

 

You may wish to try other extract flavours such as lemon, butterscotch, almond, etc., and perhaps also some colouring.

 

You may need / wish to add up to another teaspoon of water (or milk), depending on how thin you want it, etc.

 

There's not really any advantage to using electric beaters with this: a simple fork gets the same results.

Recipe source

The batch mix originated with a recipe for single-batch icing on the Splenda site. ^[1]Accessed June 2021 at https://www.splenda.com/recipe/powdered-sugar/.

Nutrition

There are 35 calories for one the entire batch made-up using a low-fat margarine such as “I can’t believe it’s not butter, light”. Using butter, there are 102 calories per batch.