what is pearl sugar

Pearl sugar, also called hail sugar or nib sugar, is an essential ingredient in many European recipes.

We wholesale to the bakery industry and also retail our pearl sugar throughout Australia / New Zealand under our "Hail Sugar" brand. Click here to order.

Pearl sugar - innovative

Our Pearl sugar (also known as nib sugar and hail sugar) is a product of refined white sugar and is 100% sucrose in composition. 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 pärlsocker in Sweden, and as perlesukker in other Scandinavian countries, except Finland, where it is called helmisokeri or more commonly raesokeri ("hailstone sugar").

A complete range of pearl sizes from 0.8 mm 15 mm has been developed to meet your different needs according to your applications.

Using the pearls

In Scandinavia, pärlsocker 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 Liège waffles, while in Friesland it is used in sûkerbôle (sugar bread).

Pearl sugar is the indispensable ingredient in the bakery and pastry sectors

for decoration of small pastries, biscuits, cookies, donuts
to give crunchiness and sweetness to your products, such as Belgian waffles.

Pearl sugar Characteristics

Our processes and dedication to quality enable us to offer high and rigorous quality pearls sugar to our customers.

Some of the characteristics include:

A perfectly white appearance
Optimal dissolving time and hardness
A total absence of dust
Nicely polished pearls
A complete range of pearl sizes

We deliver our pearl sugar all across Australia including Sydney - New South Wales (NSW), Brisbane - Queensland (QLD), Melbourne – Victoria (VIC), Hobart - Tasmania (TAS), Adelaide - South Australia (SA), Perth Western Australia (WA), Darwin - Northern Territory (NT) and Canberra - Australian Capital Territory (ACT). We also deliver to smaller cities and towns...