![]() ![]() As with other substitutions, these can work well depending on the recipe, but you should always be prepared for changes in both the flavor and the texture. There are several options, including everything from ripe bananas to honey. Like oil, sugar substitutions in recipes are common. Depending on the recipe, you might want the simple sweetness that comes from white sugar-or you might want a deeper, more complex sweetness like that of muscovado sugar. White sugar (granulated) is more of a straight sweet flavor, while darker sugars have hints of other flavors in them. Obviously, sugar’s primary role is to add that sweet flavor we know and love. Depending on what you’re making or what your goal is, it could be a simple swap or a complicated one. Or perhaps you’ve wanted to play around with sugar levels or types to change a recipe’s sweetness or complexity of flavor. We’ve all had moments like the one above, where a recipe calls for light brown sugar and all you’ve got is dark. (In case you missed the previous articles in this series, be sure to check out Part 1: The Fats and Part 2: The Flours ) In today’s blog, we’re discussing-you guessed it-sugars. How much of a difference will that swap really make? Welcome to the third and final part of our blog series, This or That? How Ingredient Swaps Impact Your Recipes. It’s so nice to be able to create colored sugars the exact shade that you need instead of settling for the generic colors available at the store.You’re reading over a recipe, and it calls for light brown sugar… but you only have dark brown sugar. Making homemade sparkling sugar is the easiest process in the world and we will never buy pre-made colored sugar again. Here is the consistency we got with Raw Cane Sugar. If you want a more course sparkling sugar you can use Raw Sugar. Here is what we sifted out of our finished blue Sparkling Sugar, little tiny pieces of food coloring and melted specks of sugar.Īnd here is our blue Sparkling Sugar. You will need to run it through a sieve before using it. It has been dried and the crystals are very slightly melted which gives it the “sparkling” look. But at the end of the process you need to be constantly checking to make sure it hasn’t started melting. We ended up baking this sugar for 8 minutes. If it hasn’t started melting on the sides, try another minute in the oven. It should be drying out now and have a shiny “sparkly” look. If it is not melting and you don’t smell any burnt sugar, try another 2 minutes. Place the cookie sheet in a 250 degree oven. Pour the colored sugar in a mound in the aluminum foil trough. Create a small trough with a piece of aluminum foil and place it on a cookie sheet. Yuck!!! Not very pretty and the smell of burnt sugar is so terrible. After only 4 minutes in a 250 degree oven we had the melted mess that you see here in the bottom picture. do not bake the colored sugar like we did the first time-spread out in a thin layer on a cookie sheet. We highly recommend completing the drying process in the oven. But baking the sugar a tiny bit really adds some sparkle to the sugar and only takes a few minutes more. This colored sugar looks pretty just as it is and could be used in cookie or cake decorating projects at this point. It will take a combination of shaking and massaging to get the sugar fully colored. Seal the bag and work the food coloring into the sugar. You can make as much as you need, this is 1/2 cup sugar.Īdd the food coloring to the bag. Pour some sugar into a small plastic bag. As you will see later in the post, if you want a more dimensional sparkling sugar, you can use Raw Sugar. In these pictures we used regular granulated white sugar. You only need sugar, food coloring and an oven. ![]() You can make Sparkling Sugar any color you want. When we saw that you could make your own glitter sprinkles, we knew we had to try it. Since the stuff at the crafts stores can get pricey, and since you are limited in color choices, we decided to start making our own. We use colored sugar for a lot of our projects. We have step by step instructions with pictures that show you how to make your own sparkling sugar in any color you like. ![]()
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