Make Your Own Brown Sugar

In case you haven’t noticed, store-made brown sugar isn’t good for you. No, really– it’s just granulated white sugar with caramel coloring. YUK. I make my own, which has *minimal* nutritious value, but hey– it’s better than that caramel coloring stuff!

With my recipe, you can adjust your sweetener to your own liking, whether you want light brown sugar, or dark brown sugar.

Homemade Brown Sugar

Molasses
White sugar
A very large, tall container
A wooden spoon

Beware, though– this gets a little messy.

Dump the white sugar in the tall container. I recommend a tall one because it’s easier to mix and keep the molasses in the container while stirring. If you use a low, round bowl, you may wind up with your sugar all over the counter. Unless you are a neat-nik. I am not, so…

Once you have the sugar in the container, dump in some molasses. BE SURE to keep the molasses away from the sides of the container, because it will stick to it and you’ll have to stir like the dickens to get it off and mixed into the sugar. I create a small well in the center of the sugar and dump molasses in, a little at a time.

Mix by hand for 4.67 hours.

KIDDING.

But it will feel like it.

Mix and mix and mix, until it is, well, mixed. I usually recruit a few of the kids to take turns. They are usually reluctant, until I promise them I will make them the Bread Machine Apple Donuts, which at the mention of those, they turn into salivating, slathering slaves ready to build the pyramids if I ask them.

When the enslaved minions have mixed your molasses and sugar, cover the container well and place in storage. I don’t know how long the stuff will keep; ours is always used up within a few months.

So now you can rest easy, knowing that you are feeding your family some REAL sweetener for their goodies. I know I feel like a better mother after doing it.