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How to Make Brown Sugar
All you need is 2 ingredients and 5 minutes to make your own brown sugar at home. This recipe for a brown sugar substitute makes 1 cup (firmly packed) and can be halved, doubled, tripled, or quadrupled! I include notes to make either light or dark variations. Recipe even includes a video!
Prep Time
5 mins
Total Time
5 mins
Servings: 16 Tablespoons (firmly packed)
Calories: 52 kcal
Course:
Dessert
Cuisine:
American
Ingredients
- 1 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 1 Tablespoon unsulphured molasses increase to 2 Tablespoons of molasses if you would like to make dark brown sugar
Instructions
- Combine sugar and molasses in a mixing bowl.
- Use a spatula to work the ingredients together as well as you can. Use the spatula to press any lumps against the side of the bowl and smash them out.
- Continue to mix until no lumps remain and the brown sugar is uniform in color.
- Store in an airtight container.
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Notes
- Air will dry out the brown sugar and make it hard, so for best results store in an airtight container. I like to store mine in a Ziploc bag and press out as much of the excess air as I possibly can. Brown sugar will keep for months, if not longer.
- If you go to use your brown sugar and find it has hardened, place a slice of bread with the sugar for several hours in the container, the sugar will soften.
Nutrition Information
Serving
1Tablespoon
Calories
52kcal
(3%)
Carbohydrates
13g
(4%)
Fat
1g
(2%)
Sodium
1mg
(0%)
Potassium
19mg
(1%)
Sugar
13g
(26%)
Calcium
3mg
(0%)
Iron
1mg
(6%)
Nutrition Facts
Serving: 16Tablespoons (firmly packed)
Amount Per Serving
Calories 52
% Daily Value*
| Serving | 1Tablespoon | |
| Calories | 52kcal | 3% |
| Carbohydrates | 13g | 4% |
| Fat | 1g | 2% |
| Sodium | 1mg | 0% |
| Potassium | 19mg | 0% |
| Sugar | 13g | 26% |
| Calcium | 3mg | 0% |
| Iron | 1mg | 6% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.