METHOD:
1. Toast whole spices individually until fragrant (if required).
2. Cool spices.
3. Crush spices (or dried fruit) using mortar and pestle (or food processor, or blender).
4. Add extracts/flavourings/colour into sugar and process/blend for a few seconds until distributed throughout the sugar and sugar is the desired consistency.
5. Spread infused sugar onto a lined tray (or into a wide dish) and leave at room temperature for 1 hour to dry.
6. Store sugar in airtight containers in the refrigerator for up to 4 weeks.
Citrus Sugar
1 cup sugar
Zest from 2 limes, 1 orange and 1 lemon
Spiced Sugar
Blend vanilla beans with sugar, or poke empty (scraped) vanilla bean pods into a jar of sugar to infuse over several months. |
1 1/2 tablespoons ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
STRAWBERRY SUGAR
Vanilla Sugar
1 cup sugar
1 vanilla bean
INFUSED SUGAR FLAVOUR IDEAS:
Blueberry Sugar
Brandied Sugar
Cacao / Cocoa Sugar
Candy Apple Sugar
Cinnamon & Ginger Sugar
Coffee Sugar
Ginger Sugar
Lemon Sugar
Lime Sugar
Orange Sugar
Peppermint Stick Sugar
Raspberry Sugar
Rum Sugar
Spearmint Sugar
Vanilla Sugar
1 cup sugar
1 vanilla bean
INFUSED SUGAR FLAVOUR IDEAS:
Blueberry Sugar
Brandied Sugar
Cacao / Cocoa Sugar
Candy Apple Sugar
Cinnamon & Ginger Sugar
Coffee Sugar
Ginger Sugar
Lemon Sugar
Lime Sugar
Orange Sugar
Peppermint Stick Sugar
Raspberry Sugar
Rum Sugar
Spearmint Sugar