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What makes brown sugar so special, anyway? The packable sugar provides baked goods with richness and a soft texture, but here’s a little secret: Brown sugar is actually just regular sugar mixed with molasses! Recipes usually call for either dark brown sugar or light brown sugar. The difference is just the amount of molasses. With light brown sugar, there’s about 3.
Quite possibly the easiest sub for brown sugar is using granulated white sugar. For every cup of packed brown sugar, swap in 1 cup of white sugar. Since brown sugar is just granulated sugar with added molasses, you can easily make a DIY version by mixing molasses with white sugar until combined. For light brown sugar: Use 1 cup of granulated sugar and 1 tablespoon of molasses.