Really fine grain of sanding sugar and it's a very yellow shade of gold, rather than antique gold or something. This is a pretty big bag so it'll last quite a while. I used this to cover the outside of a cake and I still had more than half leftover. In the picture, I covered the whole bottom tier and cake board in this sanding sugar. I was expecting more of a deep gold tone but it came out more yellow. It was still really sparkly and pretty though.