Homemade Dark Brown Sugar. Making your own brown sugar is so simple and easy and it tastes exactly like store-bought! You'll never run out of brown sugar if you keep two simple ingredients on hand: white granulated sugar and molasses. Recipe ingredients are for light brown sugar.

It's always good to make sure you have enough of all the ingredients you will need before you start making a recipe, but if you find yourself without either light or dark brown sugar, there are ways to make them at home. The only difference between light and dark brown sugar is the ratio of molasses to sugar. Dark brown sugar has more molasses, so you'll need more of it to make dark brown sugar at home. You can cook Homemade Dark Brown Sugar using 3 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Homemade Dark Brown Sugar

You need of brown sugar.
Prepare 2 cup of white sugar.
You need 1/4 cup of molasses.

This recipe, as written, will approximate light brown sugar. Feel free to experiment with the amount of molasses you add to the granulated sugar. In the store, the brown sugar you're purchasing is white sugar + molasses. But I can tell you.it's a blander version of what you can make at home!

Homemade Dark Brown Sugar step by step

In a blender or food processor add sugar and molasses. Pulse until it is JUST incorporated. This is the super fast way. By hand, just use the back of a fork to blend it all together..
There you go. As simple as that. Now store in an airtight container. I use a two cup capacity container so it fills it up completely. As you use it, put it into smaller containers. This helps keep it from getting hard. Store in a cool, dry area..
Technique shared by taylor68too..

How to Make Homemade Brown Sugar. Before we start, let me say that brown sugar is easy to make and VERY forgiving. If it's too dark for your tastes, add a little more sugar. When I need brown sugar, I mix white sugar and molasses to make my homemade light or dark brown sugar. So you just need white granulated sugar and molasses.