Our holiday celebration is sadly coming to an end as I finish my first week back to college of my SENIOR year (gasp)..but not before we celebrate with some homemade SPRINKLES! (especially because today is the FIRST FOOTBALL GAME in the swamp tonight, go gators!)
But homemade sprinkles? Say what?!
Yep, today we’re celebrating Easter for my #FreshFitNFESTIVE 6 Days of Holidays in August. And I thought, what better way to end the holiday series than to make a healthy version of sprinkles!? Easily used for SO many recipes. Especially during Easter (or any holiday), for a pretty decorative finish.
Remember that homemade, high protein Powdered Sugar recipe I shared back on Easter this spring (see it here)?! Wellll, it came back into my life when deciding to make sprinkles from scratch!
Usually sprinkles are made from regular powdered sugar and very little of anything else, aka, you’re eatin straight sugar when eating them. BUT no fear, with these sprinkles, you are eating high protein, high fiber sprinkles! How you may ask?!
Well that you can see in the recipe at the end of this post. But let’s just admire these beautiful babies for a second..
SO easy to make. Simple mix some ingredients together, pipe onto parchment paper, and let dry over night! In the morning..just break them up into sprinkles, or if you want to get really fancy and have patience (unlike me), you can cut them all individually to make perfect looking sprinkles. But as you can see with mine..I didn’t have patience, and also lack the artsy quality (my creativity certainly begins AND ends in the kitchen..give me paint or a pen and canvas, and I’m doomed).
Good thing I created a food blog and not an art blog..right?
I hope you enjoy this recipe MANY time throughout the year as the holidays begin to come around! You can make them any color to fit whatever you may be celebrating 🙂
Questions for YOU
-What will you be using the sprinkles for?!
-Have you tried About Time Protein before? (if not, you should go check out their website here, and if you’d like to order any samples or products, you can use this 25% code: fff1 🙂
Until next time.
xo, Sarah Grace
- 1 cup Homemade Powdered Sugar ([url href=”https://freshfitnhealthy.com/2014/04/diy-healthy-powdered-sugar-my-thoughts-on-not-sugar-coating-easter/” title=”[diy] Healthy Powdered Sugar & my thoughts on not “sugar-coating” Easter”]found here[/url]) or you can use regular powdered sugar if desired
- 4 tablespoons Cornstarch
- 1/2 cup Liquid VitaFiber IMO Syrup (I use [url href=”http://www.mysweetit.com/services.html”]Sweet-It[/url])
- 6 tablespoons Water (used 1 tablespoon at a time until right consistency is achieved)
- 1 tablespoon Vanilla Extract
- 1/8 teaspoon Sea Salt
- Optional: Food Coloring to create different color sprinkles (I used natural food dyes)
- Combine homemade powdered sugar, cornstarch and sea salt into bowl.
- Stir liquid fiber and vanilla into dry ingredients
- Add 1 tablespoon of water into bowl at a time, until you get a consistency that is not too thin, but not too thick to pipe (should be pretty thick, but piping-possible from bag) Think icing consistency
- If desired, separate mixture into however many bowls you’d like for different colors, and mix one food coloring of choice into each bowl, mix until fully incorporated
- Place each mixture separately into bag, and pipe thin long lines onto parchment paper, switching bags for each color you make.
- Allow lines to dry overnight.
- When fully dried (they will break easily when dried), break or cut each lines into small sprinkles. store in jar until using!