Have you ever wanted to make something that needed brown sugar but then you realize you don’t have any or don’t have enough? Well, you will never run out of brown sugar with this recipe. Homemade brown sugar is so simple to make and only takes 2 ingredients (that you can always keep in your pantry so you never have to worry about running out again).
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This is such a useful recipe and you can make it up in minutes!
Homemade Brown Sugar
Ingredients:
1 cup white sugar
1 tablespoon molasses (2 if you want to make dark brown sugar)
Directions:
1. Put the white sugar in a bowl and drizzle the molasses over it (spray your tablespoon before measuring the molasses – it’ll be easier to clean).
2. Mix together with a fork until the molasses is totally incorporated into the white sugar (sort of like cutting butter into flour). You can also use a mixer but I would still start out with the fork since I’ve found that the sugar has a tendency to “fly” all over the place in a mixer if it hasn’t been mixed a bit with the molasses first. I don’t have a food processor so I don’t know how it would work in that but I imagine it would work well.
3. Mix until fluffy
Store in an air tight container for a month and use as you would store-bought brown sugar!
To Soften Hard Brown Sugar:
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- Put it in the microwave for a few seconds with a damp paper towel on top and microwave in 10 second increments.
- Whir it in the food processor or blender
How To Store Brown Sugar:
Here’s a great article from The Kitchn on how to store brown sugar
You may also be interested in these other made from scratch recipes:
Homemade All-Purpose Muffin Mix
Homemade Dry Onion Soup Mix & Cream of….Mix
Homemade Gardeners Orange Olive Oil Bar Soap
I make my own brown sugar. Since I don’t buy any, I make a large amount in my mixer. I think it bakes better and definitely tastes better than store bought.
Wow! I have never thought of making my own brown sugar. What a simple and great idea. Can’t wait to give it try! It always amazes me when I am out of an item for a recipe and I do a quick online search and am able to learn a way to just make it myself. I buy so many food items and I could easily eliminate most of them by making things myself. Thanks!
I’ve always wondered if you could make your own brown sugar. Now I know! Thanks for sharing!
I never knew you could make brown sugar using molasses. Great to know, as I don’t have any brown sugar right now 🙂
Thanks
That is so simple. Why haven’t I thought of doing it soon. This is a must make for my pantry
This is so cool. It would make a wonderful and different housewarming, shower, or Christmas gift. 🙂 Please come share your blog posts over at the Home Matters Linky Party! We’d love to have you for a visit. The Door is OPEN. http://lifewithlorelai.com/2015/03/05/home-matters-linky-party-27/ 🙂
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This is great but it does not reduce or avoid unnecessary food processing (assuming that is at least part of the reason for “making your own” in this case). Brown is sugar’s natural state — white sugar is created by processing the molasses out of brown sugar. I’m not seeing what is gained by buying two products that have gone through an extra processing step to mechanically separate them just to put them back together again. That can’t be as good for you as simply buying the nature-made whole version in the first place.
My previous comment came off a bit overly harsh I think. I came over here from the Unshopping List post, which had a focus on avoiding ‘convenience’ foods, but that’s not necessarily what this post was for. I totally get the “making your own” because you need it for a recipe and don’t have it on hand. I just don’t agree with going through the extra steps to take brown sugar off your shopping list altogether in the name of calling it a “convenience food” that can be better made at home.
That’s quite alright! I don’t expect everyone to have the same opinions or needs as I do. Making your own brown sugar is really more of an example that if you need something you don’t necessarily have to run to the grocery store to purchase it (rather than a literal definition of it being a convenience food). You may be able to make your own…whatever it is that you need. I find the more trips to the store the more other things I pick up.
That part I do agree with! (Saving trips, making what you have on hand work.) 🙂