Monday, February 23, 2015

Homemade Brown Sugar In Five Minutes!

I learned this while working as a  baker in a major whole foods grocery.  It is the only brown sugar I use now.
 
 
 
 
 
 I scoop about 5 or 6 cups of granulated sugar into a mixer bowl.  Pour about 1/4 cup of good quality molasses over the sugar.
 
 
With mixer on low speed, stirring the molasses into the sugar takes about 5 minutes to incorporate  it well enough.  Be sure to scrape sides with a rubber spatula to get all the molasses into the sugar.
 

 
It should be a lovely color and very moist when done.  I store in a glass jar and it keeps very well, though I use it up quickly.  The brown sugar is exactly what you would buy in a box at the market, but with a more intense flavor and moistness.