How Sprinkles Are Made: Nutrition Facts and Recipe
If you're a sweet tooth, you've probably wondered what sprinkles are made of. These toppings add a pop of color to every dessert, whether ice cream, cakes, or cookies.
Despite the popularity of sprinkles, not many people know how they're precisely made and what their ingredients are. Here's what you need to know about sprinkles:
Sprinkles Ingredients
Chocolate sprinkles are sugar-encrusted balls of jimmies, also known as confetti, that come in various colors. The sprinkles are made of sugar, cornstarch, gelatin, and artificial coloring, while organic sprinkles are made of sugar, cornstarch, gelatin, and natural coloring.
How Sprinkles Are Made
The sprinkles are created by dipping strings or rods of sugar into edible, powdered gelatin, transforming into a sugar shell. The sugar is then colored with food coloring and sprayed with a shell as it's passed over a large shower of powdered sugar.
It's made in a similar way to how a candy cane is created. However, the strings of sugar aren't dipped in the powdered gelatin. Instead, they are coated in syrup. Immediately, the coated strings of sugar are passed over boiling syrup of the same color to cover it in the syrup.
Once the sugar strings have cooled, the chocolates are cut into small pieces and packaged.
Sprinkles Nutrition Facts
The biggest concern about sprinkles is what they contain and the amount of sugars you consume when you sprinkle them on your desserts.
One serving of chocolate sprinkles contains 34 calories and around eight grams of sugar. The sugar comes from sugar and corn syrup. One teaspoon (four grams) of sprinkles contains:
Ten calories
Zero grams of fat
One gram of carbohydrates
One gram of sugar
Zero grams of protein
The sugar that makes up sprinkles is sucrose. Sucrose is a type of sugar made up of glucose and fructose. Despite the sugar, sprinkles contain no fat or cholesterol.
But what's even more concerning is that sprinkles contain no vitamins or minerals. So, if you're eating a lot of sprinkles, they can drag you down by providing you with little nutrition.
Each serving of sprinkles contains 21 percent of the daily recommended value of carbohydrates. The only vitamin sprinkles contain is vitamin C, which has no daily recommended value. And the only macronutrient that sprinkles contain is carbohydrate.
How to Make Sprinkles
If you have a sweet tooth and want to make your own sprinkles, you can easily create them at home.
Ingredients
One and a half cups of powdered sugar
Two tablespoons of cornstarch
One teaspoon of water
Food coloring
Recipe
Mix the powdered sugar and cornstarch in a bowl. Add the water and mix well. You will have to keep adding the water one teaspoon at a time until you get a thick paste. You want it to be able to hold its shape.
Make the paste into balls with your hands and divide the balls into two separate containers.
Mix the food coloring in with one of the containers and leave the other one plain.
Put the balls in your microwave and heat them for 50 seconds. If you don't have a microwave, place them in a pot and heat them for three minutes over low heat. Take them out and let them dry for a few hours.
After the sprinkles have cooled, store them in an airtight container. Keep the sprinkles in a cool and dry place.
Sprinkle the balls onto ice cream, cupcakes, cakes, and cookies.
Conclusion
Sprinkles are an easy way to decorate your desserts with little effort. They add a pop of color to any cake, cupcake, or ice cream and easily dress up desserts.
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