No golden caster sugar, would normal caster be better than golden granulated?

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As title suggests, recipe calls for golden caster sugar for coffee and walnut loaf but I only have either ordinary caster sugar or I have granulated golden sugar.

Which one should I use? Or would I be better making a trip to shops to get the proper ingredient?! Toddler in tow so hoping to avoid that if I can....

Ordinary caster will be fine!

Use the caster sugar

In the absence of anyone else, I would use ordinary caster sugar.

Caster would be best as granulated will not be fine enough and the cake could end up gritty. Happy baking!

Ordinary caster sugar will be fine - actually neither will be disastrous. You can grind granulated in a blender if you feel really inspired!!

Agree with kitty. It's the texture rather than the colour that's more important to the end result.

I would use normal caster sugar. Have substituted like this before with no problems.

Ha. There were other people here! Do it OP!

Have you got a grinder? If so, whizz the granulated round in that for a very short time (not too long or you'll get golden icing sugar). Otherwise, I'd use the granulated.

Sorry, I meant the caster!!!!!

I was worried I wouldn't get a reply in here! So grateful, thank-you!

I'll use my normal caster sugar today.

Just got back in to baking after making a lovely simple banana loaf and now looking for other delicious things to bake in a 2lb loaf tin. Today's request comes from DH but I think I'll be back in this topic soon looking for more inspiration!

Thanks again

Just as an update my coffee and walnut Cake was delicious despite using ordinary caster sugar.

Thanks again, I might not have bothered making it and would have missed out!

Why would golden make any difference? It's just more expensive (I presume). It is, after all, just sugar!

It has a different taste apparently and makes the end result a different colour so I thought it was safe to assume it may be necessary for certain recipes. I don't think it's any more expensive.