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Have you ever started to create a recipe only to realize you need powdered sugar and you only have granulated sugar? Well, there’s actually an easy way to make powdered sugar at home and all you need is regular sugar!

If you would like to create powdered sugar, all you need to do is grind down the existing sugar that you already have. That’s all it takes.

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Once the original sugar has been ground down into a finer state, it becomes powdered sugar! It sounds simple, but a lot of people don’t realize that powdered sugar is literally just regular sugar that’s been, well, powdered.

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A TikTok video explaining how to make powdered sugar recently went viral and received several million views, along with over 3M likes. It seems a lot of people were unaware of how easy it is to make powdered sugar!

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Have you ever tried making powdered sugar at home?