Category "sugar"

Altering halvah recipe

Here is basic recipe for Halvah: Ingredients 2 cups honey 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 1/2 cups unsalted pistachios or almonds 2 cups tahini If I were to drop ratio

Achieving viscosity when making cocoa spread, without butter or coconut oil, with colza oil, without nuts

I've found several recipes to make cocoa spread (meaning without nuts of any kind), but none really satisfy what I'm looking for. I've tested a combination of c

Can I use liquid-form sugar to replace powdered-form sugar in meringue or sponge cake?

Borderline diabetes runs in my mom's side of the family so I'm taking some proactive steps to reduce empty carbs as much as I can. Sponge cake is something I ma

Add sugar to Taco Seasoning?

Do I add sugar? So many people have told me they put sugar in their seasoning and I don't understand why. What does sugar provide to this recipe and how much sh

Which machine/ product would be best for melting then maintaining sugar mixture at constant temperature?

I use a sugar and glucose syrup mixture and use it to form candies in demonstrations in front of people. When I use it it is between 80 and 90°C. This mixtu

Can I source fat and sugar in a recipe from chocolate?

I've been looking at chocolate flapjack recipes but they seem to contain relatively little chocolate, so I'm wondering if it's possible to replace more fundamen

Using osmotolerant yeast in regular bread

After the demise of my sourdough starter, I've decided to switch to instant yeast, and am trying to decide which to buy. Specifically, I'm comparing Saf-Instant

Sugar content of food

This appears to be the most relevant site to post my question about the sugar content of foods. For the various sugar products that I have come across recently,

Using manual egg beater to cream eggs and sugar

So I don’t have a whisk or an electric whisk and a lot of baking recipes say to cream eggs and sugar and I used to do it with those tools. Can I cream egg

Why Does My Sugar Wax Turn Out Different When Scaling Up The Volume?

I'm in the process of making sugar wax made of heated sugar, lemon juice and water. I have found a ratio that works great when it's heated up to 119 C (246.2 F)

Why can you make hard candy with maple syrup, honey, and corn syrup, but not agave nectar?

Maple syrup is mostly sucrose. Honey is a mixture of glucose and fructose. Corn syrup is glucose. Agave is mostly fructose. I have read that the chemistry of c

What happens when custard ingredients are reordered?

In the mathematics book How to Bake Pi by Eugenia Cheng in the chapter titled Sameness she mentions the making of custard. She explains that although custard ha

Digestibility of cocoa/cacao butter in white chocolate

I know that if I were to eat a chunk of cocoa/cacao butter on its own, my body wouldn't really digest it well. Typically, for large amounts of fat, they need to

Sugar coated pecans without turning amber

I had an old Aunt who used to make the best sugar coated pecans. I have tried to replicate the recipe but where hers were a snowy white colour mine turn out car

dissolving sugar in chocolate truffels

200g of molten butter, with 1.5 cups of sugar; nearly half an hour of mixing on medium-low heat barely persuaded sugar sand to half-dissolve, with a couple of t

What temp is considered “room” temperature? Our home is at 68-69°F. If the butter is very soft and the flour and sugar are warmer does that help?

What is considered room temperature? Should the butter be quiet soft and the flour and sugar warmer than 65-69°F degrees (18--20°C)?

Why is my cream cheese frosting so soft?

I am using (almost) the CupcakeJemma recipe for cream cheese frosting: 150g soft unsalted butter 240g cream cheese 320g icing sugar (confectioner’s/powder