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These sprinkles will be ready before you know it,
so let's get started.
Scoop a cup of powdered sugar off,
and you don't have to be too precious about it.
Normally I weigh things out, I'm exact,
this is the easiest recipe ever.
One cup into a large bowl, and I'm sifting it out.
You do want to sift the sugar out.
This is why it's important, do you see inside of here?
What's this? Giant sugar rocks.
You never know when you're gonna have sugar boulders.
These will clog your piping tip or plastic bag,
whatever you're using to make the sprinkles,
and it's the only thing that can go wrong, the only thing.
So just sift it out, and you'll be a-okay.
Set your sifter aside, we will be using it in a little bit.
Now I'm adding one and a half tablespoons of water.
In you go, you could add a little bit more,
a little bit less, we can always fix it later.
These are gonna be the tastiest sprinkles you've ever had
in your life, because there's no preservatives
and we're using vanilla, isn't that nice?
If the ingredients were as is, your sprinkles
would fall apart and they wouldn't be glossy,
they'd look kind of like dull and just sad.
One tablespoon of corn syrup will fix everything.
It'll hold it together and make them nice and shiny.
If you don't have corn syrup,
you can definitely use glucose as well.
Add that in there.
The corn syrup is taking the place of egg whites,
which you'll often find in royal icing
or things where you need to have a glossy sugar coating.
Now we're gonna mix this up, and don't worry
about the consistency right now,
it will definitely look a little bit off.
You'll notice your mixture will come together pretty quickly
and it'll be kind of like white glue, just like that.
This is not what you want your sprinkles to look like.
They need to be thick and pipeable.
There's way too much water in here right now,
so we're gonna add the rest of the sugar in.
Sifter's back over your bowl, and now we're gonna add in
about a half cup of powdered sugar.
If you want to make a little bit more, one full cup.
Sift that out one more time.
Now we're gonna mix it one last time, and we can adjust
the consistency by either adding more sugar or more water.
We want this to be thick and pipeable.
This is a really, really fun project to do with little ones
in the kitchen, or just by yourself
if you want to make some sprinkles.
You can make giant sprinkles that are really long,
any color combination you'd like.
So right now I have these kind of weird lumps.
That's okay, I'm just gonna drizzle
about a teaspoon of water in at a time
while I mix until I have a thick, pipeable mixture.
Just like making any glaze, you'll notice that this goes
from being kind of like funky and weird to perfect
with just a tiny bit of mixing and water,
so don't add too much water, 'cause then you'll have to add
more sugar and go back and forth
and your sprinkles will take longer than they need to.
Right now you can see it's come together,
it's a thick paste,
but I want just a tiny little bit more water.
If you're gonna use water based food colorings
like you get at the supermarket, don't add any more water.
I'm using a gel based food coloring, which is very powerful,
so I want to have a final consistency right now.
(mixer whirring)
Just a little bit more mixing.
We are ready to divide our mixture and color it up.
I recommend making three to four batches
of different colors.
If you want to have just one color,
that's totally fine, though.
So divide this into equal-ish numbers and get your dye out.
The fun part about making your own sprinkles
is you can decide how they'll be colored.
If you don't like using dyes, go the natural route
and use turmeric for yellow, you could use beetroot powder
for red, do whatever you want.
You can even flavor them with things
like dehydrated raspberries for a pink,
the world is your oyster here.
I'll be using some gel food colorings.
You only need a tiny drop of these
to get a really vivid color.
Brian got me this set and I love all the different colors.
I actually have a few videos where you can see me
doing like buttercream paintings on cakes,
I'll put a link to that here,
and it's so fun to play with these.
You can get student sets, and they're only six colors.
Let's just add a drop in.
Look at this color, so nice.
One thing to keep in mind is that your icing will develop
a skin fairly quickly, so the surface will dry out
and become hard and glossy, which is wonderful
after you've piped your sprinkles, but not before,
so if you need to step away for a few minutes,
just cover it with plastic so it won't dry out too much.
There we go, look at that beautiful color.
You can tell by the consistency
that this will pipe really well.
Set that aside and color the remaining batches.
Just for fun, I'll do my last batch electric pink.
I get questions all the time about the food colorings,
so I'll put a link for my mega set
and the smaller student set in the description box below.
Our colors are mixed, let's pipe them up.
If you want to use a piping tip, my favorite for sprinkles
is a number four, maybe a number three
if you want to go a little bit thinner,
but today I'm just gonna snip the tip off my piping bag.
It's way easier to clean up,
and you get basically the same results.
Transfer your icing into a piping bag.
You could even use a Ziploc bag if you wanted to.
Just snip the very tip off your piping bag.
By the by, you can definitely make these sprinkles
well in advance, they last for quite a while.
Once your piping bags are ready,
get some parchment paper out and pipe away.
A little note, tape does not really stick to parchment paper
but it sticks just enough to help hold it in place.
It's very slippery.
Now we're just gonna pipe a bunch of straight lines.
The best way to do that is to use good pressure
on your piping bag and just lead.
Don't try and pipe on the parchment paper,
you're gonna want to pipe above the parchment paper
and let it fall down.
It's pretty thick, so if you're having trouble,
just use both hands to squeeze and tighten
the piping bag as you go.
It doesn't have to be one continuous mega line.
Don't worry if you have any gaps,
that's gonna be totally unnoticeable.
So if you want to make confetti sprinkles,
all you have to do is pipe little dots.
They don't have to be perfect at all.
I prefer the long lines, though. It's much quicker.
Repeat that process with the rest of your colors
and let them sit overnight to dry.
I want to show you the swap outs I made yesterday,
which are ready to cut, look at that.
You can always touch to see if they're ready,
because you'll be able to lift them
right off of the parchment paper.
See that? Look at that.
Okay, the fun part is chopping them all up,
so just use a knife and get to cutting.
If you're making sprinkles with kids,
you don't have to use a sharp knife,
even your finger will chop them up really easily.
Your sprinkles are ready to use.
If you want to save them for later,
just put them in an airtight container or bag
and they'll be good for months.
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These are totally delicious! I'll see you in the next video.