what is the difference between one cup of powered sugar, sifted and one cup of sifted powered sugar?
13 Answers
- Anonymous3 weeks ago
You're getting some wrong answers here, which might matter. If this is just to sprinkle over a cooked cake, no biggie. But if it goes into something you're baking, it will matter.
The first one means you take 1 cup powdered sugar, sift it, and what's left is what you use. The 2nd means you keep sifting until you have a 1 full cup of powdered sugar (probably start with 1 1/4 cups).
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- Nikki PLv 73 weeks ago
Sifting the powdered sugar will aerate it and remove lumps.
If the recipe says..1 Cup powdered sugar, sifted you measure it out then sift.
If the recipe says 1 Cup sifted powdered sugar you sift then measure.
You would get more sugar in a cup if you do not sift it than if you sift it then measure it. One of the reasons that weight is better/more accurate than volume.
- Anonymous3 weeks ago
No difference.