With just 2 ingredients you can now make all your own Halloween Sprinkles!
Animal products creep into just about everything so it seems we vegans spend most of our time reading labels. Spend your time in a better way by making these sprinkles to decorate your cakes and cookies Not to mention they are a great gift idea!
Disclaimer: Yes the recipe lists 5 ingredients but only 3 of them are essential. Salt and vanilla are completely optional enhancers
Addtionally if you use water instead of aquafaba it is still 2 ingredients including the food color! haha.
Confectioners glaze and color dyes are made from bug secretions
So that means a definite no if you are 100% vegan.
Whether you want your own specific color scheme or those fun pumpkin, ghosts and skeleton bones
Making your own Halloween Sprinkles is fun with no animals involved!
PS- They work great inside of a Funfetti Cake!
FUN FACTS:
Shellac is a resin excreted by certain female Asian beetles after they have feasted on tree bark. Also known as “confectioner’s polish”, this shellac is used by many candy manufacturers to improve the appearance of their finished products by giving them a “shiny sheen” that will not easily wear off. India is the world’s leading producer of shellac, and the U.S, Europe, and Egypt are the top consumers of it. While some are taken aback by the fact of shellac’s origins, it really is not much different in nature than other insect products, such as honey and the honeycomb.
Whether you are vegan or not or if you care or don’t care about eating beetle secretions, this homemade recipe for sprinkles is not only easy and cost efficient, but fun too!
It costs just about $1 to make over 2 cups of vegan sprinkles!
Homemade Vegan Sprinkles
Ingredients
- 3 cups Confectioners Sugar
- 8-10 Tbs Aquafaba or Water
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract *optional
- pinch Salt *optional
- Vegan Food Color as needed
Instructions
- By hand in a large mixing bowl or with an electric mixer combine the sifted confectioners sugar with the salt, vanilla extract & then the water, starting with just about half the amount of water.
- Mix to a paste then add more water as needed. *Using liquid food colors you will not need nearly as much water since those are primarily water.
- Divide the icing into as many smaller bowls are you are making colors & add the food color to each, mix well then cover each small bowl with plastic wrap to prevent drying as you pipe each color.
- I use parchment paper cones to pipe each color since you are working with such small portions at a time it just makes more sense than using large piping bags. It is also cleaner & easier to handle small cones rather than large pastry bags, not to mention the canvas or plastic pastry bags we use for other projects may have residual grease in them which can break down this icing which in turn will ensure it never dries
- Pipe the colors out in long strings onto parchment paper lined sheet pans. *It's ok if the strings break as you pipe, they are going to get broken up later anyway.
- Let the icing dry for at least 4 hours in a cool, dry (not humid!) spot preferably overnight to make sure they are completely dry
- Once dried all the way, roll up the parchment paper & let the sprinkles pour out into a bowl!
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