Recipe Card | DIY Homemade Sprinkles
Learn how to make homemade sprinkles with only 4 ingredients. This simple DIY sprinkles recipe is great for beginner bakers and adds bright, colorful decoration to cakes, cupcakes, and cookies for any occasion.
Equipment
- Bowl
- Hand or Stand Mixer
- Rubber Spatula
- Small Bowls
- Plastic Spoons
- Sifter
- Gel Food Coloring
- Piping Bags
- Piping Tip 3, 4, or 5, optional
- Parchment lined baking sheet
Ingredients
- 1 cup powdered sugar, sifted
- 2 tbsp water
- 1 tbsp corn syrup
- 1 tsp clear vanilla flavoring
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar, sifted
Instructions
- Place a sifter over a bowl and sift 1 cup of powdered sugar, discarding any lumps.
- Add in water, flavoring, and corn syrup.
- Mix until all of the sugar has been saturated with liquid.
- Sift in the 1/2 powdered sugar. This extra powdered sugar will help the liquid mixture set.
- Split the mix into bowls. Add 1-2 drops of gel coloring (you want the color to be darker than you'd like as the color will fade during the drying process).
- Add sugar paste to piping bags, fitted with a tip (or omit the tip and just cut a small hole at the tip).
- Pipe long lines of the sugar paste on parchment-covered baking sheets.
- Make a special note to pipe above the parchment and allow the sugar mixture to fall onto the parchment vs dragging it across.
- Allow sugar paste to set in a cool dry place for a minimum of 12 hours
- Break the lines and enjoy your custom sprinkles!
Notes
Gel Colors: Electric Americolors or Chefmasters Primary Colors
Flavors: Any extract (vanilla, almond, coconut, chocolate, Anise, Banana, Coffee, Cherry, Lemon, Maple, etc)
Any Flavor Emulsion (cookie nip, strawberry, butter vanilla, blueberry, creme bouquet, etc)
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