Yes you can. It's the only way I've ever made fudge. Most powdered sugar packages have a recipe for fudge.
Once you've successfully learned to make fudge from powdered sugar, there's one more thing you can learn that will have people begging for more. The exact same recipe for fudge made from powdered sugar, is also the recipe for fudge frosting. The only difference is that you don't cook the fudge. Just mix the recipe and spread it on your cakes or cookies.
The recipe that I use is on the link below.
That depends, what are you making?
Making steel, steel is definitely crystalline. Making eggnog, eggs are crystalline. Making hard tack candy, making fudge although sugar is considered noncrystalline, you are varying the phases of sugar to include one large sugar crystal to get hard tack and annealing the fudge to avoid the formation of sugar crystals.
Usually one pound of powdered sugar is in a box. Which is about 2 cups.
Powdered sugar contains cornstarch which could alter the texture of the canned goods. So powdered sugar would not be a good choice when canning.
yes it is the same
Confectioner's Sugar (powdered sugar) has a completely different consistency and quality than granulated sugar. You cannot substitute one for the other.
it depends on what you are making. some things it may not work, but others it should be ok. what are you making?
sugar or just mix sugar with cornstarch
i would not use granulated sugar while making buttercream icing. i would only use icing sugar. icing sugar usually has cornstarch mixed in with the powdered sugar. even if you added cornstarch to granulated sugar it would still give you a completely different texture than icing sugar...it would feel very gritty.
Just about 2 1/3 cups of granulated sugar = 4 cups of powdered sugar. Use the blender method.
Um, yes. Confectioners sugar is the same thing as powdered sugar - just a different name.
No, powdered sugar is best for the royal icing that goes on the cookie as decoration. For the actual cookie, use plain granulated sugar.