How to Make your own Edible Pixie Dust – The Pirate Fairy Inspired recipe
My daughter is just like any other little girl. She loves Tinkerbell and anything to do with Fairies. With the new release of The Pirate Fairy coming soon; I figured it would be a lot of fun to make Edible Pixie Dust! Since Spring break is this weekend; we will be using this pixie dust in a few different recipes as we have fun baking in the kitchen while the kids are out of school! And you may be surprised at just how easy it is to make this edible Pixie Dust!
Edible Pixie Dust
Edible Pixie Dust - The Pirate Fairy Inspired recipe
A fun colored sugar to mimic pixie dust for kids who love Tinkerbell and The Pirate Fairy.
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup Sugar in the raw
- few drops of Wilton Food Coloring
Instructions
- Portion Sugar in the Raw into a glass bowl
- Add in a few drops of the Wilton food coloring gel. This won't change the texture of the sugar and will give a stronger color. You don't need a lot.
- Mix well
- Spread on a tinfoil tunnel on cookie sheet
- Bake at 350 for 10 minutes
- Allow to cool thoroughly
- Store in air tight container
After you bake the pixie dust, you will need to re-break up the sugar before putting it into a shaker. You can also try drops of liquid food coloring to achieve different colors or depth of color.
To make the baking super easy, I made little “boats” out of tin foil so I could easily keep the different colors separated. And then when it was baked it was easy to dump it into the new container.
If you find that the crystals are still too clumpy and not as fine as you would like. You can also put them into a blender and pulse for a second or two. And it will give a finer texture. Although you will loose some of the gloss and shine from the pixie dust when you do that.
You can use Pixie Dust on just about any baked treat!
- Bake up some pie crust and sprinkle it on with a little milk and bake!
- Sprinkle on cookies
- Sprinkle on Ice Cream
- Sprinkle on Cupcakes
- Sprinkle on yogurt
- Make your own The Pirate Fairy Pixie Hollow Fruit Pizza healthy recipe
- Sprinkle lightly on your breakfast cereal.
- Use for Cake decorating
- Scatter across the table as “evidence” of fairies visiting.
- Zen Gardens
- Layers in small bottles to make nice designs.
- Art projects with glue sticks
- DIY pixie sticks! Use Colorful Plastic Straws, fill with Pixie Dust and seal shut. 🙂
- Dip ice cream cones in white chocolate and roll them in the edible Pixie Dust.
- Sprinkle on breakfast foods: pancakes, French toast, cream of wheat, crepes
And so much more!
We had so much fun baking up our Pixie Dust. It was really fun using my macro lens on the iPhone to get a really close up look. They almost do look magical right?
So this weekend, or over the next holiday, take some time and make some edible Pixie dust with your kids and see the excitement of bringing the magic to life in your own home.
No fairy fans here (I have boys), but I think this is a fun, clever idea. I would like to make some, but I need to figure out a reason!
What a fun activity. I had no idea you could make it edible.
What a truly neat idea! My daughter would love to make this and sprinkle it on everything!!!
I LOVE this craft! This is so amazing if you have little girls or young kids in general! So creative, thanks for sharing <3
This is so easy, and such an adorable idea! Although I have a boy, I happen to be a fairy fan myself. No one has to know I’m making it for my own entertainment!
shut UP. i love this. omg we are totally making it. we have ALL THE THINGS in the house!
You are going to have so much fun Brett! Seriously; my daughter is still geeking out about it. And oddly enough; so are my boys! They loved it too! lol.
I have never made this before! My youngest son may like to give it a try. I love your Tinkerbell figure. This is too cute! I would use the Pixie Dust most likely on cookies.
Well, if this is not the cutest! This would have been perfect for my daughter when she was younger. Peter Pan was her favorite movie.
Such a fun, easy, and creative idea. My daughter and niece pretend all the time that they are fairies, this would so add to the magic for them!
I make this all the time to put on top of things like cookies. It’s great and kids love it.
Such a cute idea! and my twins would entirely believe that it was actually pixie dust!!! 🙂
Okay, that is pretty dang neat!!! And I need a Macro lens for my iPhone!!!
Aww, this is just the coolest! What a fantastic idea! I’ve made some colored sugar in a similar way, but I love the use of Sugar In The Raw, this is brilliant!
This looks like a cute recipe! I bet pixie dust covered cupcakes would be the perfect snack while watching The Pirate Fairy.
Cute idea! I can think of a bunch of ways to use this in baking.
This is really a cute idea and I bet little girls just love this. There are most likely some little boys out there that are a little jealous too. My sons are grown but hopefully some day I will have a granddaughter and we will give this a try.
now this is a great idea. my daughter would flip if we made glitter she could eat!
OMG, my daughters would go gaga for this. Looks so easy and I know they’d go nuts. 😀
LOVE your ideas.. SOO cute.. we are planning on a viewing party for this movie and this will be on my list MUST do!!! AWESOME..thanks for sharing
Oh A viewing party! How fun! In that case, be sure to come back tomorrow; because I have a super fun Pixie Hollow Fruit Pizza with this Pixie Dust on it going live tomorrow! It would be a hit at your party!
OMG.. how cool.. can’t wait to see that.. WILL be here tomorrow that’s for sure 🙂
I love how you made the colored sugar. Very very cute! And nice close up photo of the sugar crystals, too. 🙂
Wow. They look amazing. Much better then the ones I pay an arm and a leg for at the store.
What a fun idea! My daughter would think this is magical!
I have a HUGE fairy fan. I love this idea. Super cute and a must try!
This is a super great idea! Will pin the idea ifor my daughter’s birthday party!
This is seriously one of the cutest most magical things! I totally love your idea!
This is such a fun and simple idea, and something any little girl would love.
What a fun thing! I would love to put these on cupcakes!
That is so sweet! I know a little girl that would go absolutely crazy over this pixie dust!
Looks like so much fun! I am sure kids would love this project. Hopefully they don’t have too much of that sugar and food coloring. Perfect for Easter
That is so easy to make, I bet the little ones love it. What a fun way to help get them to eat their food.
What a fun idea! That’s perfect for any Disney fairy princess fanatic.
What a fun idea! My niece loves all things fairies, so this would be a fun to make with her. It would also be great for decorating treats.
This looks like such an easy but beautiful recipe! My girl would love for me to make this for them!
What a cute idea! I love this pixie dust and wouldn’t mind having some for myself. It looks really fun to make!
This is a really great idea! I’ve never thought o make my own colored sugar/pixie dust at home!! Thank you!
Such a cute idea. I may have to try this with my granddaughter pretty soon when she’s old enough to enjoy it!
I love this idea. I’m so pinning this to make with my daughter when she is a little older.
Oh the girls would love this! How fun!
What a fun idea and great way to decorate. I’ll keep this in mind next time I need a pretty decoration.
thank you so much for sharing. I’m looking forward to doing this. I’ve book marked this page so I can come back to it. My 6 year old daughter is a huge Tinkerbell fan it will be great for her birthday
Ok, seriously, this is such an adorable idea! We love the Pirate Fairy.
This looks like so much fun to make with kids! I’m thinking it would be perfect for Christmas desserts in red and green.
This is such a cool idea! I would even decorate some cupcakes with this to give them a Disney feel.
I love that it kind of sparkles like fairy dust! Great idea 😀
Well, looks simple maybe i would try it when ill have more free time.
This is such a fun idea. My daughter loves Tinkerbell.