Do you need to use caster sugar in cakes or is granulated fine?

I think castor sugar dissolves more easily. Sugar is cheap so just buy what the recipe says.

Granulated is just fine.

>>9332813
Some recipies call for something ridiculous like golden caster sugar, which isn't even a thing where I live.

>>9332825
It's in every single shop in first world countries.

The finer grind of caster sugar makes it much easier to aerate butter; I wouldn't skip it if your recipe involves creaming, which most cakes do. Though, I suppose if you're using an electric mixer you can just run it longer

>>9332832
>The finer grind of caster sugar makes it much easier to aerate butter; I wouldn't skip it if your recipe involves creaming,

2nding this. Caster sugar aka powdered sugar is dirt cheap and any supermarket will have it so there's no reason not to buy it. It takes ages to incorporate granulated sugar with butter.

>>9332834
isn't powdered sugar icing sugar ? and caster just a finer granulation ?

Depends on the recipe.
If it's an American recipe, granulated is not a good substitute because they use volumetric measures rather than weight and 1 US cup of granulated sugar is between 180-200g while caster/powdered weighs between 120/140g.
If the recipe uses mass or weight measures, such as grams or ounces (not fluid ounces which, again, are volumetric measures) it wouldn't matter whether you use caster/powdered or granulated.

Now, if you have a volumetric recipe calling for caster/powdered sugar but all you have is granulated, just put a cup of it into the blender, give it a blitz and Bob's your uncle: you've got powdered sugar. Remeasure it for use in the recipe.

Hope this helps.
t. bakerbro

>>9332846
>archaic unscientific units
Do Americans really do this shit?

>>9332801
I dunno, but there was a spell in Dragon Quest 9 that was used to buff your magic casting abilities and it was called "Caster Sugar" and it always makes me laugh.

>>9332844
AFIK they're all the same thing. Caster = icing = powder

>>9332859
No, caster sugar isn't as fine as icing sugar.

>>9332929
I stand corrected.

But it sounds like they would still be interchangeable in this application. If caster sugar is fine enough to dissolve readily when creaming, then icing sugar certainly would too.

>>9332801
are cattos supposed to eat bread

>>9332951
I'm not sure, I'm not much of a baker.
I think you'd want to measure by weight not volume if you were swapping out different granule size though.

>>9332957
>I think you'd want to measure by weight not volume if you were swapping out different granule size though.

Yes, that is an obvious part of the substitution. You always measure dry ingredients by weight.

>>9332952
they can has cheezburger

>>9332976
:)

>>9332854
Yes.

>>9332951
I think it's also worth noting icing sugar has additives like potato or corn starch to prevent clumping, I'd assume that could make it behave differently if used in place of caster or granulated sugar.