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caster sugar

British  
/ ˈkɑːstə /

noun

  1. finely ground white sugar

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When our Baking Club focused on Yotam Ottolenghi and Helen Goh's cookbook "Sweet: Desserts from London's Ottolenghi," members with the UK version kept noticing that the vast majority of the recipes call for caster sugar.

From Salon • Jan. 14, 2022

All you need are caster sugar and Angostura bitters.

From Salon • Jan. 14, 2022

They'll work as seamless substitutes for one another in cake and cookies, but you probably wouldn't use brown sugar in a recipe for vanilla buttercream; same goes for golden caster sugar.

From Salon • Jan. 14, 2022

Here's how to achieve the best baked goods with caster sugar.

From Salon • Jan. 14, 2022

If a grain of granulated sugar is big and a grain of powdered sugar is tiny, caster sugar would be somewhere in between.

From Salon • Jan. 14, 2022