Where the bloody icing sugar?!!!

[Kittenlicker]

...And the flour, dessicated coconut and bicarbonate of soda. It’s an outrage! I need my cake.

I'm struggling with brown sugar.

@KittenVsBox add a touch of black treacle to white sugar, I stead of brown sugar. It works. More treacle gives darker sugar, less gives golden light brown.

I made dessiccated coconut from dried coconut flakes in a small electric chopper. Worked a treat

You can make icing sugar by blending ordinary sugar.

I tried this. It looked like icing sugar but was grainy when mixed with butter and was too unpleasant to eat.

Thanks, pickle. Will see if Tesco has treacle next week!

I agree you can get a sort of caster sugar by blending granulated, but icing sugar doesn't seem to get fine enough for icing. I have used a fudgy chocolate icing that has condensed milk in, and no sugar. Grainy icing sugar is usually ok in biscuits tho.

Same place as the brown sugar....impossible to find

What about making flour free brownies 😂😂 (I think they are a thing?)

I made a cake topping the other day that was simply dark chocolate melted in oat milk.
It was a vegan cake, hence the non-dairy milk; I presume that ordinary milk would work too.
75ml milk to 100g of chocolate - ideally make it a bit beforehand and it will set to a good consistency. Should cover about 16 cupcakes. Not too sweet - I think I preferred it to icing.

Granulated sugar in a grinder (like you use to grind spices or coffee beans) rather than a food processor will make icing sugar too.

Another alternative - avocado, cocoa powder with syrup rather than sugar to sweeten.

Admittedly, my suggestions mostly only helpful if you like chocolate cake topping!

Same place as the sodding yeast :( haven't seen yeast in 3 months. I could buy a franchise in Papa John's, the amount I have paid in takeaways.

Got some from Morrisons and brown sugar from Asda last week.

Ground almonds and rice paper is what I'm after. Shielding, so no trying corner shops, and there's no way you can ask someone shopping as a favour to get a list starting with ground almonds, rice paper

Local Costcutter had it when 4 supermarkets didnt. Brown sugar in short supply too

Not seen yeast anywhere. I can get flour, sugar etc. But no yeast. Probably just as well though.

If you can try small local shops - our Spar had some in stock luckily for the birthday cake I needed it for. Also Facebook businesses- some cake makers/bakers around my area have been selling and delivering flour/yeast etc through lockdown...

Dh bought yeast online

Loads in Aldi ?

light brown Muscovado sugar is impossible to find at the moment

@MereDintofPandiculation simplycakecrafts sell rice paper and postage is only £1 for a small amount.

@Mercedes519 I've not been able to buy chocolate chips but it's easy to get hold of chocolate buttons. They are great in cookies.

You can buy flour from the Doves Farm website. And yeast

For chocolate chips why not chop up a bar if chocolate?

Well, my local police force may have found where the icing sugar went at the very least.......

I think people are still panic- buying personally or prepping as they like to call it, to make it sound better.

Both Aldi and Lidl are the only places stocked up on baking supplies around here. Depending on your local community,it was Eid recently so that may have effected supplies.

Only got granulated around here. Plus no chocolate chips or baking powder/bicarbonate of soda. I gave my bag of self raising to mil thinking I could just add raising agent myself. I have current pot, but no more when runs out.