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The idea never occurred to me to learn how to make brown sugar at home until recently. Until now, I’ve always purchased it from the store and didn’t give it a second thought. One day, during the holiday season my favorite store was completely out of brown sugar and I needed it for a recipe. This scenario led me to discover how to make brown sugar easily at home. The best part is that it only requires 2 ingredients!
Ingredients to Make Brown Sugar
This recipe calls for two simple ingredients: unsulfered molasses and sugar. No cooking is necessary for this recipe.
Unsulfured Molasses
I’d never used it before so it was a new experience. Fortunately, I had just purchased Grandma’s Unsulfered Molasses to make homemade gingerbread man cookies with my family. It was actually why I needed the brown sugar in the first place.
Needless to say, Grandma’s Unsulfered Molasses came and handy and served more than one purpose. I think it’s something that would be great to purchase and bulk and keep on hand.
Unsulfured molasses is made from ripened sugar cane and does not contain any additives like sulfur dioxide. Sulfur Dioxide acts as a preservative to prevent the molasses from spoiling.
Molasses can be a great source of iron, selenium, and copper which can help maintain healthy bones. It also contains some potassium which can be good for healthy blood pressure and heart health.
Sugar
In this recipe I used organic cane sugar, however, you can use other varieties as well. Regular cane sugar, as well as granulated sugar, are other options that can be used in this recipe.
While sugar isn’t the healthiest thing, it’s nice to have the option to choose what kind of sugar you prefer. In this case, I was happy to use the organic cane sugar that I had in my pantry.
Homemade Brown Sugar
This is a very quick and simple recipe for making homemade brown sugar. This recipe only requires 2 ingredients that you can always keep on hand in your pantry!
Ingredients
- 3 cups of organic cane sugar
- 3 tbsp unsulphured molasses
Instructions
- Pour sugar and molasses in a bowl
- Use a hand mixer to combine
- If there are small clumps, use your clean hand or spatula to incorporate the clumps with the rest of the mixture.
- Mix until the clumps are gone and the brown sugar is uniform in color.
- Store in an airtight container
Notes
The basic recipe is a 1:1 ratio. 1 cup of sugar to 1 tbsp of molasses. This recipe has been tripled. To make dark brown sugar, increase the molasses: 1 cup of sugar to 2 tbsp of molasses.
Brown sugar lasts for months in an airtight container.
I've read that a trick to soften your brown sugar if it gets hard is to place a slice of bread in a container of brown sugar and leave it in for several hours.
This brown sugar is perfect for this Homemade Pancake Syrup recipe! Yum!