How to Make your own Edible Pixie Dust – The Pirate Fairy Inspired recipe

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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

Yield:

Edible Pixie Dust - The Pirate Fairy Inspired recipe

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.

Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 15 minutes

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Portion Sugar in the Raw into a glass bowl
  2. How to Make your own Edible Pixie Dust - The Pirate Fairy Inspired recipe
  3. 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.
  4. How to Make your own Edible Pixie Dust - The Pirate Fairy Inspired recipe
  5. Mix well
  6. Spread on a tinfoil tunnel on cookie sheet
  7. Bake at 350 for 10 minutes
  8. Allow to cool thoroughly
  9. Store in air tight container
  10. How to Make your own Edible Pixie Dust - The Pirate Fairy Inspired recipe

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.

How to Make your own Edible Pixie Dust - The Pirate Fairy Inspired recipe

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.

How to Make your own Edible Pixie Dust - The Pirate Fairy Inspired recipe

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.

How to Make your own Edible Pixie Dust - The Pirate Fairy Inspired recipe

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. ๐Ÿ™‚
  • 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

How to Make your own Edible Pixie Dust - The Pirate Fairy Inspired recipe

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.

 Have you tried to make Edible Pixie Dust?

How would you use this fun Edible Pixie Dust?

Do You have a fairy fan in your house?

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53 Comments

  1. 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!

  2. I LOVE this craft! This is so amazing if you have little girls or young kids in general! So creative, thanks for sharing <3

  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!

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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!

  7. Okay, that is pretty dang neat!!! And I need a Macro lens for my iPhone!!!

  8. 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!

  9. This looks like a cute recipe! I bet pixie dust covered cupcakes would be the perfect snack while watching The Pirate Fairy.

  10. 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.

  11. 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

    1. 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!

      1. OMG.. how cool.. can’t wait to see that.. WILL be here tomorrow that’s for sure ๐Ÿ™‚

  12. 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

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. This looks like such an easy but beautiful recipe! My girl would love for me to make this for them!

  16. What a fun idea and great way to decorate. I’ll keep this in mind next time I need a pretty decoration.

  17. 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

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