Powder Sugar Quotes

“Bonnie comes over with a metal sugar duster and taps it over the top of the cake, the little blueberry globes and peach crescents turning frosty white with powdered sugar.”
― Jennifer Gold, The Ingredients of Us

“My stomach growls as I think about the beignets I ate that day, those magical deep-fried pillows of dough, covered in half an inch of powdered sugar. The exterior was crisp and golden, and when I took a bite--- the airy, cloud-like interior still warm from the deep fryer--- the powdered sugar fell into my lap like snow. I'd known the beignet was a cousin of the doughnut, but somehow without the hole in the middle, it managed to surpass any notion I had of what a doughnut could be.”
― Dana Bate, A Second Bite at the Apple

“It is the lightest of snowfalls, the merest sprinkling of powdered sugar, but its presence, shaken through the mesh of a fine sieve, has brought a certain magic to the rugged surface of a tray of almond croissants. It has made a crescent of brown pastry and frangipane into a snow-freckled mountain range.
On other days I have seen icing sugar used as thickly as driven snow, on a tray of softly mounded walnut shortbreads or in the cracks and ridges of a Stollen. At Christmas, no Yule log or mince pie seems festive enough without it. Unfashionable, yes, but icing sugar brings a certain enchantment.
A dusting of powdered sugar can cover up a multitude of sins, but its presence is more than a way of papering over the cracks. It will highlight the crests and peaks of a crisp meringue, make a swirl of buttercream sparkle and render the deliciously blackened tips of a French apricot tart irresistible. When it lies on the waves and curls of a cupcake's piped frosting you would need a heart of stone not to be tempted.”
― Nigel Slater, A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy… A Memoir of Sorts