Swaffels Pty Ltd

About

Pearl sugar

Our Pearl sugar (also known as 'nib sugar' or 'hail sugar') is a product of refined white sugar and is 100% sucrose. The hard, opaque white pearls come in various sizes and do not melt at temperatures typically used for baking. The pearls are made in a unique extrusion process and imported directly from Belgium.

Pearl sugar in general is also known as perlsocker in Sweden, and as perlesukker in other Scandinavian countries, except Finland, where it is called helmisokeri or more commonly raesokeri ("hailstone sugar").

In Scandinavia, perlsocker is used extensively to decorate various pastries and confections, cookies, especially on top of plain Swedish bulle or Finnish pulla cakes, muffins and buns, such as kanelbullar (cinnamon buns) and chokladbollar.

In Germany it is known as hagelzucker and traditionally used on Christmas cookies and cinnamon buns.

In Belgium, it is used in Liege waffles, while in Friesland (a northern province in the Netherlands) it is used in sekerbele (sugar bread).

Application

- Small HS 3.2 nibs are mostly used for decoration purposes. Typical decoration applications are pastries, puff pastry buns, butter cookies...

- The larger HS 5.6 and HS 9.5 nibs are perfect for blending in risen dough for the production of waffles, sugar bread etc...

Features & benefits

- The sugar nibs do not melt entirely giving crispness and delicious texture to baked products such as waffles and sugar bread due to the nibs high melting tolerance and dissolving time.

- The perfect white aspect of the nibs is maintained during the baking process due to the utilisation of EC Number 1 white sugar crystals.

- Minimal to zero product losses thanks to the absence of dust in the bags.

- The polished nibs will not tear the packaging of the final product.

- Available in a comprehensive range of granule sizes.