I'm fairly new at making cakes and haven't experimented a lot with different brands of things. Is Sam's Club (called Bakers and Chefs) powdered sugar okay for bc icing? Ingredients say sugar and cornstarch. It doesn't say cane sugar. I don't want to make a big batch of unusable icing. Thanks.

Any brand PS is just fine - I've used no name and brand and they all work the same for me.

Have Fun!

all i use if the Sams powdered sugar. you get a lot more for less money that way. it is also 10X so it is really fine. i never have any problems with it.

I use it and it works fine.

I also use the Sam's Club PS, almost exclusively. No problems but I usually sift. HTH.

According to Wikipedia "Powdered sugar is generally mixed with cornstarch, wheat flour, or calcium phosphate to improve its flowing ability, and thus it is not generally used to sweeten beverages."

that's where I get all my supplies, I use it to make fondant, I like italian buttercreme

I use the 6x sugar but have found that it needs to be sifted. It sometimes has hard clumps of unrefined sugar. Im going to try the 10x and see what happens.

My cake instructor warned us to look at ingredients: some "powdered sugars" are made of beet sugars, which she says do not work as well. I have used Sam's sugar with no problem.

I've used it with no problems.

Do you all buy it in bulk? About how much is it for say... 50lbs at Sam's, Costco, BJ's or whatever bulk place you use? Just curious if I want to renew a membership...

I use the 10X Sam's Club powdered sugar all the time, and have never had a problem. Recently I have started sifting all my dry ingredients.

-Debbie B.

I've stayed away from Sam's powdered sugar because I wasn't sure about it, so I'm glad to find this thread. I've only seen the 7 lb bags though. I'll have to check and see if it is 6X or 10X.

I always buy my granulated sugar there though (Imperial) because it is super fine and there is a huge difference in that and what I was buying at the grocery store.

I only use Sam's Cub powdered sugar for my icing and have never had a problem with it. It comes in a 7 lb bag. I buy the 2lb bag at Wal Mart to make my gumpaste strictly for the convenience.

I get mine at Sam's and I pay 24.?? for a 50lb bag of domino ps.

Oh that's cool, little less than .50/lb that way... I'm paying $1.44 for 2lb bags of Dixie Crystal at WalMart and buying at least 5 at the time. Might just be worth renewing the membership for that.

Hmmmm... I wonder how much powdered sugar I have inhaled in the past 6 months?

I buy 50lbs for 10x Powdered sugar at costco for 19.99, it's .40 cents a pound that way!

I use Sam's ps pretty much exclusively, but I've only ever seen the 7# bags. Hmmmm, I might have to check and see if they carry larger sizes at my store. Thanks for the info!

mmm... I can see online at Sams 25lbs for $10.83
http://www.samsclub.com/shopping/navigate.do?catg=2439

Not bad, pretty close to that Costco price too... Sams is 5 miles from me, Costco is about 25... soooo with gas savings, Sams may be the way to go for me

If you're making just one recipe of BC, do you get an accutate measurement when weighing from bulk PS bags or does it tend to settle and not be as accurate in your recipe as using the exact measured by the 1 or 2 lb. bags/boxes?

Oh wait, my bad.. that's not powdered!
Scratch that price.

You can go to sams (dot) com and get prices for these items in your area (enter your zip code). I did that recently for a cook out for my sons little league team and the prices were accurate online as they were in the store. Sometimes the in store price was cheaper than online...just FYI.
~H

I have learned from doing my first cake with bulk ps that you definitely need to sift it. It gets pretty packed in there in such a huge bag. I don't even measure mine out I dip from the bucket, sift and add to mixer. Add til I have the texture I need. Walmart has buckets for 4-5 bucks. Wash and rinse and dry and wallaaa the lids snap tightly on. Great for storing my PS. I got this from a thread once posted. I also label the tops of them along with the date.

Chippi

I get my ps from costco, $4.39 for a 7 lb bag (comes out to 62 cents a lb)

Thanks everyone. I didn't know you could look up the prices online for Sam's Club. I really need to get a membership.

Thanks everyone!! All your info is a great help. I think I will go make some icing now for my son's birthday cake.

I actually just came back from Sam's.... I bought three 7lbs bags, 10x sifted for 3.63 a piece. It's the only PS i use and since i switched to them, my buttercream has come out smoother... I love it!