Brown Sugar

No, not the Rolling Stones song, the sweetener! 

I have several American cookie recipes which call for brown sugar. In the States, we've got light brown sugar and dark brown sugar, so it's pretty easy to figure out what to use. But here there's demarera, light brown sugar, dark brown sugar, muscavado sugar, and other kinds which I can't remember!  What do you all use when an American recipe calls for brown sugar? I used dark brown sugar and they came out ok but somehow I don't think it's the same? Is it me?

I'd try light brown sugar (or possibly demarera) not dark sugar. You'll just have to play around a bit but the darker the sugar, the stronger the flavor.

Regina - I just use Demarera.  It doesn't pack like brown sugar from the states, but it works fine.

"Silver Spoon Light Brown Soft Sugar"
I get mine in Tesco. Exactly the same as what the American product is.
Silver Spoon also makes dark brown.
http://www.silverspoon.co.uk/retail/product.asp?id=202

No, not the Rolling Stones song, the sweetener! 

Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields,
Sold in a market down in New Orleans.
Scarred old slaver know he's doin' alright.
Hear him whip the women just around midnight.
Ah Brown Sugar  how come you taste so good
(A - ha) Brown Sugar , just like a young girl should
A - huh.

Drums beating, cold English blood runs hot,
Lady of the house wond'rin where it's gonna stop.
House boy knows that he's doin' alright.
You should a heard him just around midnight.
Ah Brown Sugar  how come you taste so good
(A - ha) Brown Sugar , just like a black girl should
A - huh.

I bet your mama was a tent show queen, and all her boy
Friends were sweet sixteen.
I'm no schoolboy but I know what I like,
You should have heard me just around midnight.

Ah Brown Sugar how come you taste so good
(A - ha) Brown Sugar , just like a young girl should.

I said yeah, I said yeah, I said yeah, I said
Oh just like a, just like a black girl should.

I said yeah, I said yeah, I said yeah, I said
Oh just like, just like a black girl should.


                     

How did i KNOW DUC was going to post the lyrics.

For my gingerbread cookies, I used dark brown sugar, as well as castor sugar, but had to use dark treacle instead of molasses. Any one know if they are the same thing? Looked the same to me,,lol.

I just made gingerbread cookies and used treacle. Not baked yet, but they smell the same!

Tate + Lyle "light brown soft" pure cane sugar - looks like it, tastes like it, packs like it. I've used it in several recipes and it appears to be exactly the same.

But what I'd like to know along these lines is what the deal is with granulated sugar.... I made cookies and cakes the other day for Christmas and the granulated white sugar I used never did really disolve. The cookies have a VERY vague "crunch" though I'm probably the only one who can notice as does the glaze on the cakes. And my new Kitchen Aid mixer creamed the butter and sugar FOREVER so it wasn't for lack of mixing!!!

But what I'd like to know along these lines is what the deal is with granulated sugar.... I made cookies and cakes the other day for Christmas and the granulated white sugar I used never did really disolve. The cookies have a VERY vague "crunch"

Always, always use caster sugar in baking cookies and cakes unless the recipe specifically says granulated.

Now you tell me!

Always, always use caster sugar in baking cookies and cakes unless the recipe specifically says granulated.

DOH! And now here's me with a big ol' bag of granulated sugar and neither J nor I use it in coffee! Oh dear. Well, the cookies will just have to continue to crunch for now. LOL.

Always, always use caster sugar in baking cookies and cakes unless the recipe specifically says granulated.

Ahh,, that's what a nice lady in Tesco told me last week when I was shopping for my gingerbread cookie ingredients. I didn't know there was a difference either,, but it creamed up nicely with the butter

 

Ahh,, that's what a nice lady in Tesco told me last week when I was shopping for my gingerbread cookie ingredients. I didn't know there was a difference either,, but it creamed up nicely with the butter

Wow, one thing I actually knew!  and of course it was my DH who told me!!!

Wow,, your hubby knew to use caster sugar in baking cookies? I am very impressed,, go on,, tell him that he has impressed me,, LOL.