Billingtons Golden Icing Sugar

I do love making cakes and I do love eating cakes but for the last year and a half, I have been trying to eat more healthily. This has included making vegan cakes with spelt (surprisingly good turnout) and looking for slightly more healthy alternatives to white sugar - which I don't eat any more (except when it is in other foods which I try to limit - see my review on Cocoa Pops). I have seen white sugar described as 'white death' on several occasions - because it is particularly bad for you. I don't think brown sugar is wonderful either; I have settled for a tiny bit of moscavado every now and again. However, I love making a cake ...  Read the complete review

I often use icing sugar when I've been baking, I'm not overly fond of icing myself so tend to make a lower calorie topping for mine by using a mixture of Quark and icing sugar rather than the pure sugar and water mixture that my granddaughters' love so much. I had a money off voucher for any brand of sugar in Tesco recently and decided to redeem it against a box of Billingtons Golden Icing Sugar, after reading the information on the box I thought it would be a nice way to ring the changes on my granddaughters' Saturday night cakes. It's certainly different, although I'm not convinced to be honest and will probably revert back to my usual plain Silver Spoon ...  Read the complete review