Vanilla Sugar - Help!

[Flybye]

Thank you Mr. Silver,
powdered sugar has corn starch. Regular sugar does not.

Eye learnt sumthin knew tooday.

[Mr. Bloom]

...and I'm not feeling bad for being confused

[uk elephant]

european recipies commonly use tsp or tbsp for small volume liquids. And a typical lemon icing for lemon drizzle cakes or any number of other cakes involves dissolving granulated sugar into lemon juice over low heat and drizzling it over the cake. Delicious. It makes it even better if you poke a few holes in the cake with a fork for the lemon drizzle to sink into.

[tantrumbean]

Lol, this made me laugh - I had the same problem with vanilla sugar here in the UK, I was trying to make a marble cake following my German recipe. This, like 99% of German recipes, contained vanilla sugar. Couldn't find any anywhere! Fortunately my mum send me a 10 pack of sachets through the post, which sorted the marble cake and a few more baking attempts. For those who are still wondering what size these sachets are, they are about as big as a cigarette packet, but thin, so not the same as a sugar sachet in a restaurant. Very useful stuff it is too - maybe I should start a vanilla sugar import export business!!!

Edit: Just noticed someone else had the same idea:

http://www.koffeeklatsch.com/product...le_Zucker.html