Out of brown sugar mid-baking session?

Try one of these emergency brown sugar substitutes as a replacement.

White Sugar

White sugar can be a 1:1 replacement for brown sugar.

Glass jar of brown sugar

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Keep in mind, using white sugar instead of brown sugar won’t lend your recipe any health benefits.

Though brown sugar has added molasses, brown sugar nutrition is almost exactly the same as regular granulated sugar.

Dark brown sugar will have a stronger molasses flavor.

two measuring cups of white and brown sugar

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Did you know that brown sugar isn’t just for baking?

It’s also a flavor-changing ingredient in recipes likeglazed ham, baked acorn squash, and evenpork chops.

One of the most common mistakes is adding too little or too much sugar in recipes.