Brown sugar is one of the most useful items in any well stocked kitchen.  It is as sweet as white sugar, but tastes slightly different because of the molasses content.  Dark brown sugar has about twice as much molasses as light brown sugar does.

Here are a few tips for using it.

1-      Store brown sugar in the freezer.  This will help keep it for hardening.

2-      If the sugar is already hard, just a few seconds in the microwave should soften the molasses up a bit.  Place a bowl of water to the side of the sugar.

3-      You can put really hard More >