[Purple Cat]

I'm doing a pantry challenge, trying to use up what I have instead of buying more food. I have 2 huge bags of powder sugar. Don't ask. do you know of any recipes that might utilize this? Ideas?
TIA

 

[lil_earthmomma]

Ok...

Sprinkled on french toast
Powdered Sugar Cookies (so good!)
Kourabiedes (greek cresent sugar cookies lol) http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Kourabiedes-I/Detail.aspx

powdered sugar cake
powdered sugar pound cake
powdered sugar chocolate cake

That's all I can come up with right now!

 

[JTA Mom]

Do you own a food scale? If so, you can use powdered sugar in place of regular sugar in almost all recipes, you just have to go by weight instead of volume.

Ami

 

[alisoncooks]

If you eat chocolate and Peanut butter, I say make monkey munch! YUM, we love it

though we only make it once every couple of months...

 

[lil_earthmomma]

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Originally Posted by alisoncooks If you eat chocolate and Peanut butter, I say make monkey munch! YUM, we love it though we only make it once every couple of months...

Sounds yummy! Um... what is it?

 

[catnip]

Lemon bars.

 

[leighann79]

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Originally Posted by lil_earthmomma Sounds yummy! Um... what is it?

Like Puppy Chow maybe? You use Chex cereal for it.

 

[2xy]

Russian tea cookies.

 

[cristeen]

I usually use it for Pascha, which is a Russian Easter traditional cheesecake-like dish. Since a single recipe calls for 1 1/2 lbs of powdered sugar, 2# would be pretty easy (but it makes almost 10# of cheesecake).

Honestly though, pantry challenge or no, I'd set aside the powdered sugar... trying to find a way to use up 2# of sugar seems like a fairly unhealthy thing to do to me. Use it up 1/2 c at a time - it's far more reasonable, and it will go further, too. Or like a pp said, use it in recipes that call for regular sugar as you go about your routine cooking.

 

[melissa.sm]

Peanut butter balls - peanut butter, powdered sugar, butter, rolled into balls and then coated in chocolate. Like homemade Reese's. So good!

 

[St. Margaret]

Giada had a yummy looking lemon bar thingy (it was a bit different-- just icing on top) on her show a week or so ago-- maybe on her web site? It used a lot of powdered sugar, I recall (I watched it while stuck in bed nursing a napping toddler, and good thing, or else I would have sooo been hunting for something lemony and sweet in the house

).