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Use this easy homemade brown sugar recipe to make brown sugar in 5 minutes with just 2 ingredients. Never run out of this crucial baking ingredient again.
Homemade brown sugar is so much easier to make than you think. Make it at home and impress your friends! Or at the very least, you’ll impress yourself.
First things first, this recipe is EASY. And it is so simple to adapt to meet your baking needs. It’s totally fine to experiment with measurements to make it how you like it. You cannot break this recipe!
We go through a lot of brown sugar because it is a key ingredient in our amazing brown sugar banana bread and overnight cinnamon rolls.
Pro Tips/Recipe Notes
- Homemade brown sugar will last as long as store-bought.
- If you need to soften up some cakey brown sugar, place a few slices of apple in the jar and wait an hour. A soft piece of bread works as well.
- If you don’t have a stand mixer, you can use a hand mixer, food processor (though only on the pulse function or you’ll end up with powdered brown sugar!), or even two forks or a pastry cutter and a lot of patience.
Homemade Brown Sugar Recipe (Two Ingredients)
Equipment
Instructions
- Combine ingredients in a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment.1 cup sugar, 2.5 tsp molasses
- Mix on low for two minutes, scrape the sides, and mix for another two minutes.
- Transfer to an air-tight container and store in a cool dry place.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
So I was all set to make my favorite baked oatmeal recipe. I gathered all my ingredients..oh no! Brown sugar was not in the pantry. You rescued me and my baked oatmeal. I went old school with a whisk and had gorgeous brown sugar in less than 5 minutes. Thank you!
So easy! So happy to use what I already had and not have to buy something else!
I’m so glad it worked well for you!