How to make edible glitter

Edible glitter looks amazing on birthday cakes and it’s really easy to make with only two ingredients! Impress the kids and make some for their next birthday cake.

Ingredients:

1/4 cup of raw sugar (for each colour)
1/2 teaspoon food colouring

Method:

Combine sugar with the food colouring.
Repeat for as many colours as required.
Place each colour on foil and spread out.
Bake in the oven for 10 mins at 180 degrees, this helps makes it shiny.
Let the glitter cool and then it’s ready to decorate with.

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25 Comments

- - meedee said
  - 25 Jan 2022
    9:58 am
Oh this is so awesome to know. Thanks for sharing.

- - mom62527 said
  - 10 May 2017
    10:44 am
This edible glitter is such a clever idea. I never knew that this recipe existed, definitely one to try perhaps gor my daughter’s 9th Birthday in August.

- - mom93821 said
  - 28 Feb 2017
    7:29 am
Love this recipe for edible glitter.

- - country chick said
  - 26 Feb 2017
    9:36 pm
I always wondered how this was made. Thanks

- - mom101628 said
  - 17 Nov 2016
    11:03 pm
I’ll pass this on to my daughter in law.

- - ella12 said
  - 16 Nov 2016
    2:18 pm
I would never have thought of this, thanks for that!

- - rovermum said
  - 16 Nov 2016
    11:48 am
Very clever and simple. A great craft idea, but I don’t know if I want to be eating it!!

- - mom134803 said
  - 16 Nov 2016
    3:01 am
Nice idea but I wouldn’t like to give this to my kids or eat it myself.
Food coloring is poisonous and sugar is nothing else then an empty calorie what is bad for your health and teeth.

- - mom70876 said
  - 15 Nov 2016
    8:16 pm
Cool, I was wondering why you’d want to eat glitter – from the headline. Good idea on cakes!

- - mom169245 said
  - 25 Oct 2016
    11:16 pm
Some wonderful ideas. Thank you. I’ll be trying some of these!

- - BellaB said
  - 19 Oct 2016
    3:47 pm
What a good idea. Very timely for me, too…

- - june11 said
  - 11 Oct 2016
    9:36 pm
You can buy natural food colourings which don’t have unneccesary chemicals in them, usually in the same section as the others. Just check the labels on the bottles.
- mom19782016 replied
  
  12 Oct 2016 , 1:49 pm
  Yep, would be buying the natural dyes even though they don’t have the vibrant colours of the other ones.
  - june11 replied
    
    19 Feb 2017 , 10:42 pm
    
    Have you ever checked what some of the artificial food colourings are made from. Unless they are now using different ingredients the red is made from cockroaches.
- - mom90758 said
  - 11 Oct 2016
    6:34 pm
They would be great to decorate cookies too!!

- - mom112217 said
  - 11 Oct 2016
    9:43 am
A fab idea that will look amazing on birthday cakes!

- - mom134803 said
  - 11 Oct 2016
    7:36 am
Personal I don’t think food colouring isn’t edible, I call it food poisoning….

- - Rach said
  - 11 Oct 2016
    12:33 am
Thats pretty cool. Will try for my daughters party

- - Melissa89 said
  - 10 Oct 2016
    11:53 pm
This is a really great idea

- - Nas01 said
  - 10 Oct 2016
    9:27 pm
What a great idea. Thanks!

- - mom199864 said
  - 10 Oct 2016
    9:18 pm
This looks great, ill give it a try, thanks

- - mom64356 said
  - 10 Oct 2016
    8:34 pm
Perfect for the little ones who love to put everything in their mouths!