No more last minute trips to the store for sugar because you can make your OWN Homemade Brown Sugar with just two ingredients!
Phew, what a week! It's been an amazing whirlwind of family, friends, and love this past week as my mom and brother were in town for our Baby Shower BBQ! Since I'm not one to play dirty diaper games, our friends hosted a wonderful game-free, casual, BBQ where the guys grilled up some of our favorite ribs from Gartner's as well as our Cornell Chicken, while the ladies snacked on apps like our go-to Avocado Corn Salsa. My girl Mona and her hubby even surprised us by coming all the way from Arizona! It's been a wonderful but crazy and exhausting week, to say the least. This preggo is beat. So I bring you one of the fastest, easiest, oh-my-god-how-did-I-not-know-about-this-sooner?! recipes to date. Homemade Brown Sugar.
I know what you're thinking, because I thought the same thing when I realized you could make your own Homemade Brown Sugar! It's only 2 ingredients - and 2 ingredients we always have in the house! All the times I've run to the store because I ran out or forgot brown sugar... What a waste of time that'll never happen again!
Especially since it's ridiculously easy to make. Just toss a cup of white sugar in your food processor with a tablespoon of molasses, 
and blend. 
Annnddd you're done. 
2 ingredients and 2 minutes and you have your own Homemade Brown Sugar. It'll take you longer to wash the food processor you used than it took you to make this.
So have no fear, friends. As long as you keep a jar of molasses in your fridge and have some white sugar on hand, you'll never have to make a last minute brown sugar run again!
Happy baking!
Homemade Brown Sugar
Ingredients
- 1 cup of white granulated sugar
- 1 tablespoon of molasses
Instructions
- Add sugar and molasses to food processor. Blend until molasses are all incorporated.
- Store in an airtight container or plastic bag.
I'm so glad I found this as I head into my annual Christmas cookie baking marathon! I almost always run out of brown sugar, and it's such a pain to have to dust the flour off of myself and run to the store in the middle of baking. I never realized how easy it is to make brown sugar at home! I love that it's always fresh this way too. The store bought kind dries out so easily.
I knew there was a way to do it but I never thought to make it. What a great idea. Yes!! Sometimes I run out of brown sugar and it would be great to just whip some up. We always have molasses in the house -- I'll be making some brown sugar this week.
Uhm, ok...mind BLOWN!!! I had no idea homemade brown sugar was even a thing. It's so funny because I always feel like I need to have both on hand at all times, for when the mood strikes. Now, I cannot wait to run out of brown sugar so I can try it. Thanks for sharing this, Tracy! 🙂
This is such amazing information! I have run out of brown sugar before and would have loved to had this recipe to make my own instead of going to the store. Thanks for sharing this, so great!
Congratulations! This is such a cool trick! Who knew it was so easy to make brown sugar at home? Now I never have to rush to the grocery store at the last minute after discovering that I'm out.
Yes- it makes life so much easier!
I have no idea how I've gone this long without knowing this trick! What a lifesaver! I guess in my head, I'd always figured it was a different type of sugar (although now that I think of it, this makes total sense!) Quick question though, is this closer to light or dark brown sugar?