icing sugar

noun

1. US term: confectioners' sugar. a very finely ground sugar used for icings, confections, etc

Example Sentences

A bag of icing sugar was then thrown into the man's car before the other vehicle was driven off.

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One commentator said now that the "do-gooder" pandoro with pink icing sugar had been exposed as junk, Italians were wondering where that left "the princess of influencers as well as queen of social media".

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Not to be confused with fruit cake, stollen is a traditional German Christmas bread that consists of nuts, spices, marzipan and dried/candied fruit, coated with powdered sugar or icing sugar.

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The icing sugar available in the U.K. does not have corn starch in it and because of that, it creates a significantly stronger icing that dries rock hard.

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As for how it compares to other types of sugar, it's not as fine as powdered sugar aka icing sugar aka confectioners' sugar.

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