Can I make cream cheese frosting with granulated sugar?

[mogs0]

I have been using a sugar substitute and made some delish carrot cakes a couple of weeks ago. It wasn't until they'd all been eaten that I realised I'd used the normal icing sugar for the frosting and wondered if I could have used the sugar substitute instead.

[jasper]

no

[mercibucket]

granulated sugar isn't a sugar substitute

[allhailtheaubergine]

Hmm. No you cannot use granulated sugar to make cream cheese frosting. IT would be crunchy.

But I don't really understand your post. Where does the sugar substitute come in? Do you mean Candarel or something like that?

[mogs0]

Title was more to give an example of the coarseness of the sugar - it's been a very long weekend and my brain isn't fully functioning .

I have now found a site with a frosting recipe using the sugar I have.

[mogs0]

Would it get as fine as icing sugar? I once hand-blended granulated sugar to make caster sugar on my mother's advice.

[mogs0]

Not useless at all - I'll experiment with different types of sugar/other ingredients and report back soon!

The sugar substitute I have is slightly finer than granulated so might be ok.

[PerfickMuther]

I prefer to omit the sugar as it's bad for the childrens teeth. Use spunk instead.

[peachybums]

It goes crunchy and had bits in yuk learnt from past experience