Cheap Large amounts of Icing sugar

Purplekylie22

I got lots of stuff to start making cupcakes. I have a few good Wilton tips and plan on mostly sticking to just butter cream frosting. Each recipe uses 500grams of Icing sugar for frosting! Now asda isn't too expensive, but is there a place I can buy like 5Kg bags of it relatively cheap? Macro seemed quite expensive.

I'm also guessing that 00 flour would be best for cupcakes? Any where to buy large bags of that too? With the easter holidays comming up soon the kids have got two weeks off school! So we should be making a HUGE amount of cupcakes A batch a day keeps the doctor away?

anguk

I personally wouldn't bother with 00 flour for the cupcakes, I just use normal flour which is much cheaper, I don't think the 00 flour would make much difference to the taste or texture.

I find with cupcake recipes they often use far too much frosting, much more than I normally use, I made cupcakes from the Hummingbird Bakery recipe book and followed the ingredients exactly, it made about double the amount of frosting than I needed! Now I only make half the quantity.

Purplekylie22

Thats great thank you anguk I will stick to the normal flour! I will probably (first few times at least) end up using all the frosting, I have never made frosting before and its the first time I have ever used a piping bag, so I expect a lot of disaster lol

anguk

Purplekylie22 wrote: »

Thats great thank you anguk I will stick to the normal flour! I will probably (first few times at least) end up using all the frosting, I have never made frosting before and its the first time I have ever used a piping bag, so I expect a lot of disaster lol

You're braver than me with the piping bag, I normally just smooth the icing on with a knife then run a fork around to give it a pattern to pretty it up!

diddly74

You can buy bulk on places like Amazon, but the one I plan to try is Shorters Club, their prices seem reasonable on comparison. Have a look: http://www.shortersclub.co.uk/Search.aspx?SearchTerms=icing+sugar

They are doing 10 x 1kg packs of sliverspoon icing sugar for just over £15 (£1.54 a Kg) plus postage (which starts at £3.30, but is £5.50 for just this) = £20.86

Tesco & Asda = £1.89 per Kg x 10 = £18.90 if you go n collect

It all comes down to how much you are buying and if you can collect.

Purplekylie22

Well I found a few videos on You-tube and it looks like you can make rose tops really easily. I have a feeling it wont be as easy as I want since I'm not artistic at all but I really want to try it. I'm making Rose flavor and Violet flavor cupcakes this weekend. I even have concentrated icing colouring.
My intention is to end up with something looking like this



Only with red tips for the rose cupcakes and purple tips for the violet ones. I'm really excited about this project, I need to boast my confidence a little. Been a stay at home mum for 3 years now and I'm feeling kind of useless

Purplekylie22

Thanks Diddly I will check that out

rachbc

can i ask where you are getting violet flavouring from - I've been after some for ages with no luck!

Purplekylie22

Rach, I got it from Macro. I got Monin brand Rose, the monin really are worth spending extra on if you can afford it. It was 5.49 no vat for 70cl. The Violet you can also get in Monin brand, but my macro had none in stock, so I got Macros own brand I think, its brand Rioba. It was 2.49 for 1Litre and I stuck my finger in to taste it. Its definitely not as strong as the Monin, but it does have a good flavor to it.

diddly74

PurpleKylie - yesterday out of interest I went to Aldi. There I spied icing sugar at 88p per 500g

therefore

500g x 20 = 10Kg
so
88p x 20 = £17.60

So Aldi is cheaper, but again do you have one near and the ability to cart home 20 boxes of icing sugar!:rotfl:

Purplekylie22

diddly74 wrote: »

PurpleKylie - yesterday out of interest I went to Aldi. There I spied icing sugar at 88p per 500g

therefore

500g x 20 = 10Kg
so
88p x 20 = £17.60

So Aldi is cheaper, but again do you have one near and the ability to cart home 20 boxes of icing sugar!:rotfl:

Ohhh thats great! thanks so much I'm heading into town today, think my toddler is skipping twos group. hes shattered and grumpy So when my OH signs on we can go with him, have a look in a cake decorating shop and then go to aldi
We live out of the city so going in just for one thing can be a pain