A lot of people don’t know that you can make your own Homemade Brown Sugar. This homemade brown sugar recipe is super simple to make and you can make it with ingredients you already have on hand, saving you the money you don’t have to spend running to the grocery store and buying all those other things you think you need while you’re there!
You can make a big batch of homemade brown sugar and use it in oatmeal, topping for coffee cakes, and of course cinnamon rolls. If you would like to store the homemade brown sugar, just put it in a plastic bag or jar and seal. The airtight container is the trick to keeping it from getting hard. If it gets hard just put a piece of bread in with it and it will soften up. The moisture from the bread will transfer to your brown sugar and make it soft again.
Here are some other tips for making the brown sugar soft:
- Put it in the microwave for a few seconds and that will soften it too.
- pulse it in the food processor
- wrap a wet paper towel around brown sugar and let it sit for several hours
- place an apple in with the brown sugar
- place a clean piece of terracotta in with the brown sugar (these sell for a lot in the store so just get your own.)
Homemade Brown Sugar Recipe
1 cup granulated sugar
1 Tbsp. molasses
Mix well with mixer. When everything is blended, store in an airtight container.
There are different strengths of molasses so you can ever so slightly adjust the amount of molasses if you want darker or lighter brown sugar. My recipe calls for what I call “regular” molasses. To make dark homemade brown sugar just add another tablespoon of molasses.
Photo By: Ruth Suehle
Who knew. Think this will work in my praline recipe?
Does this need to be refrigerated? I don’t keep sugar or molasses there now so I’m thinking not.
This should work like regular brown sugar although candy can be touchy especially if it is the kind you cook. You don’t need to put it in the fridge. Just store it like you would regular brown sugar in an air tight container in the pantry.
If you look up the definition of brown sugar it is just white sugar with a certain amount of molasses added to it. Darker brown sugar just has more molasses added to it so you can adjust the amount for how dark you want you sugar too. I say this to explain that this recipe is just the same as regular brown sugar.
Great tip!
I cut my sugar, can I have haqlf regular sugar and half sugar sub with Malasses? I’d like to try this. I have used brown sugar mixed with sugar substiture and that is fine. My husband never knew the difference!
I am going to try this at home and see how much brown sugar 1 cup of granulated sugar plus the molasses equals. Might it take a bit more sugar and molasses mixed together to equal 1 cup packed brown sugar? Then when making something like cookies could you not just
mix the sugar and molasses first in the bowl and never have to actually bother making a batch of brown sugar?
You know Pat I am not sure. You would think you could do that. Maybe one of our readers has the answer.