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Homemade Brown Sugar

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Did you know you can make your own brown sugar?

Ingredients

  • 1 cup Granulated Sugar
  • 1 Tablespoon Molasses

Preparation

Add the molasses to the white sugar. Mix well, being sure to scrape down the sides to coat all that nasty white stuff until it’s pleasantly brown. You can do it old school and just go at it with a fork, or an electric mixer will do the job quickly.

It’s that easy! And it tastes and behaves just like store-bought brown sugar, so no more panicky trips to the market.

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southpaw on 7.25.2010

Thank you thank you! This recipe just saved me – brilliant!

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theredbook on 6.15.2010

I can’t tell you how this has changed my life! lol I currently live in France and I haven’t been able to find brown sugar anywhere – but now I make my own!

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2ndCareerNurse on 4.11.2010

Now the only time I’ll need to buy brown sugar is when we cure our hams and bacon (I can’t imagine making 25lbs like this!) It worked beautifully when I made a toffee topped cake yesterday. If you want dark brown sugar, I used blackstrap molasses and only added 2 tsp blackstrap/1 cup sugar.

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tracylynn on 3.14.2010

This has to be the best… because I dont use brown sugar enough and mine is always hard.. so.. tada…. now i’ll make it as i need it!!! Thanks!

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researchingparis on 3.13.2010

Thanks for the tip. I can’t get good (American) brown sugar here in France, so this is a great tip… Now, where to find molasses may be the problem. I bet I can have someone bring it over to me, if it means chocolate chip cookies (which are just not the same without the brown sugar)!

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blackhawkwife on 9.28.2012

SO wonderful, I love this. I am so tired of running to the store all the time and started making my own things like baking powder, cake flour, ect this will be added to the list….

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Kelly on 3.12.2012

Thank you for this! I like having smaller amounts of brown sugar around, so it won’t dry out as quickly.

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sambugjoebear on 3.8.2012

Works great! Used it in my chocolate chip cookies last night and couldn’t tell a difference.

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2ndCareerNurse on 11.22.2011

I ran into a no-brown-sugar emergency so I gave it a try, it was great!

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pipersglen on 8.25.2011

This was almost a duh moment!
Tried different mollassess’s to give
the sugar another twist….way good!
Thanks for sharing!

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