Customer Reviews

Opal Sanding Sugar

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I purchased this kind of last minute. It didn't look exactly how I thought it would but it came speedy delievery which was great and my client loved the look it gave to her wedding cupcakes.

Last Christmas I left my husband with a batch of sugar cookie dough in the fridge and told him to make Christmas cookies. So, he cut out and baked dozens of trees. Palm trees. Hmmm, I never thought palm trees were particularly Christmas-y, but what do I know? I then assigned him the task of decorating the cookies and left him with a variety of options and was a bit timid to see what he would do. What he did was pipe them all in white and then dust them with opal sanding sugar. They looked gorgeous and very festive. I think the cookies got more compliments than anything else we prepared for the party!

I've been hunting for a good quality edible glitter for months now, and from the photo and the other reviews, I though this was going to be what I wanted. It's not. These are just those sugar crystal sprinkles that you can get in the grocery store (clear or colored) for about $3 a bottle. They are slightly smaller and shinier than what I've seen, but there's not enough of a difference to be worth $11 a bottle plus shipping. Big disappointment...

The sugar was perfect, I ordered it to go on a cookie I make only at Christmas time. The cookie is an almond flavored one that you make by chiliing the dough and then cutting off a small piece which you make into a ball and then roll by hand out so it is about 9 inches long. You try to keept it a little thicker in the very middle so when you twist it, it has a tapered look. You leave the top with a small opening so you can put a pretty ribbon thru it like it can be hung on the tree. When they are cooked and still warm you put a thin coating on them of powdered sugar and almond flavoring and water and when they are still sticky, you sprinkle the sugar on. They came out beautiful, I then put them in an old cookie tin and serve them up to company, they think I am soooooo talented and it is so easy.