Brown sugar

Also called cassonade and brown caster sugar

Brown sugar is a soft sugar made with molasses. Cooks use it as a sweetener in baking.

Category: Sugars & sweeteners
Texture: Soft
Cooked most in: Asia
Top country: Indonesia
Dishes: 20 in the catalogue
Energy: 380 kcal per 100 g

Photo: Moe Rubenzahl · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use brown sugar

Typical ways to cook or use it

Bake

Made from

sugar
molasses

Preparing it

Soften hardened brown sugar by introducing moisture or heating it. Break up mildly hardened sugar with utensils, or shake it in a closed container.

Cooking with it

Brown sugar caramelizes more readily than refined sugar and can help brown glazes and gravies. It makes baked goods moister and chewier; darker sugar increases the chewiness. Darker brown sugar gives a stronger, more caramel-like flavor.

Flavour

Taste and texture

Texture

Soft

Nutrition

What 100 g of brown sugar holds

Per 100 g. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 0%Fat 0%Carbohydrate 100%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of brown sugar
Energy	380 kcal · 1,590 kJ
Protein	0.12 g
Fat	0 g
of which saturated	0 g
Carbohydrate	98 g
of which sugars	97 g
Fibre	0 g
Sodium	28 mg
Cholesterol	0 mg

Nutrition per 100 g of brown sugar: minerals and vitamins
Potassium	133 mg
Calcium	83 mg
Iron	0.71 mg
Magnesium	9 mg
Zinc	0.03 mg
Folate	1 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (food 168833), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where brown sugar is cooked

20 dishes in the catalogue use brown sugar. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Asia20

Countries whose dishes use it most

Indonesia 20

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list brown sugar among their ingredients.

On the table

Dishes made with brown sugar

19 of the 20 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

Sayur asem
Indonesia
Pempek Kapal Selam
Indonesia
Rujak manis
Indonesia
Bingka Barandam
Indonesia
Onde-onde
Indonesia
Wajik
Indonesia
Katirisala
Indonesia
Kolak
Indonesia
Topi waja
Indonesia
Ampas Tarigu
Indonesia
Jenang grendul
Indonesia
Nopia
Indonesia
Pohulpohul
Indonesia
Bacem tofu
Indonesia
Dumbleng
Indonesia
Kubang boyo
Indonesia
Getuk kicak
Indonesia
Klenyem
Indonesia
Ombus ombus
Indonesia

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include brown sugar.

Family

Related forms

A kind of: sugar