On Duff's french butter cream recipe it calls for 15 oz of sugar. Is that granulated sugar or confectioners sugar? I would guess granulated but I want to make sure and I have to make this frosting later today.
Thanks for the help!!!!

See I would say confectioners sugar since it needs to be fine sugar to make a smooth icing. Can you pm someone that made the icing already?

there's a giant thread on this recipe somewhere here..but yes, it's granulated

here's the link: http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-234631-duffs.html+buttercream

No, it is most definitely granulated sugar.

Theresa

Wow I feel dumb now. Sorry for the bad advice. Glad you got the right recipe before you listened to me.

Hey, you tried, right? That's what we're supposed to be here for, to help each other, isn't it? That's what counts most.

Theresa

since you cook the sugar to make a syrup, it doesn't need to be fine like powdered sugar.

I have a recipe that calls for granulated sugar and it's not cooked but I always put the sugar in the blender first and it works really well.

Pretty much anytime a recipe says "sugar" its going to mean granulated. Same as "butter" means salted. Those are the most common items, so anything different will be listed.

In the recipe referenced above, the sugar does not get cooked.

Theresa