Did you know you can make your own brown sugar? Brown sugar is literally just white sugar and molasses. I knew I could make it. I even knew how to make it. And yet, I have not been making it.
Logically, I knew I should. I use a lot of it, given how much I bake. It's much cheaper to make than to buy, especially since I prefer dark brown sugar, which is always more expensive than light brown sugar. And I already have a gallon of molasses.
I kept telling myself I should start making it next time I ran out. But then my laziness would overcome me and I would buy more brown sugar when I was at the store.
However.
Here we go.
I finally did it. I used two tablespoons of molasses per cup of white sugar, which makes very dark brown sugar.
I mixed it in my food processor. It wasn't hard, of course, although I did overfill the food processor and have to split the sugar in half to get it all combined evenly.
2 comments:
I used to delegate to my little people. Just give Poppy a big bowl of sugar and a couple of forks to mix the molasses in with
Since I don't bake much any more, I am a little stunned by the idea of a gallon of molasses (but when I DO bake, those little 12 oz bottles disappear fast). One can also just free-form brown sugar by adding a dollop to any recipe that calls for it, just cutting down the sugar a bit. (Most recipes call for an excessive amount of sugar, so if one is at all health conscious, one is reducing it anyway). MIL
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