Recipes

[Flatbush]

Can I use brown sugar in place of white granulated sugar in a recipe. Suppose I wanted to bake  a muffin, are these sugars interchangeable. Or, can I use part brown and part white?

I made bran muffins and wondered if I could add brown instead or at least part?

[spumoni99]

Brown sugar just has mollasses added to it I believe, it should be fine for a bran muffin.

[Desertdi]

From the Internet:

How to Make the Sugar Switch

The brown-sugar-to-white-sugar conversion is easy because the measurements remain the same. If a recipe calls for 1 tablespoon of granulated white sugar, substitute 1 tablespoon of brown sugar. If it calls for 2 cups of white sugar, substitute 2 cups of brown sugar. Even the most math-challenged of bakers should be able to handle it.

There's one caveat here, though. Granulated white sugar is a dry, freely flowing grain that naturally fills the space into which it's poured. But brown sugar has a higher moisture content that causes it to clump and sit in lumps. When measuring it, pack it down into the cup or spoon so it actually fills the entire space.

[Pook]

Brown sugar will result in a moister and softer baked good.  

[Grace729]

I substitute with coconut sugar often in baking 

[cindyNC]

Absolutley! My mother used to do it quite a bit.  Especially in pumpkin pie..half white/half brown.

[kate2357]

@Flatbush 

For bran muffins, I would for sure use either just brown sugar or a  half and half mix of brown and white sugar. I prefer the taste of brown sugar and use it in quite a few recipes that only call for white sugar.

[Kachina624]

I often mix sugars in a recipe but I wouldn't use 100% brown in a recipe that calls for white.  It's going to give a different taste and texture, which I don't care for.

[Flatbush]

Thanks every one who posted.

I am going to make the bran muffins with 1/2 and 1/2 sugars.

Will be interesting to see? taste? the difference.

Will also try this in other recipes.

This forum has never let me down when I've asked a question!

[Flatbush]

UPDATE

I used 1/2 brown and 1/2 white sugar to bran muffins.

And, I could not tell the difference between using half and half sugars. They were both good muffins.