Gingerbread What is Gingerbread? Gingerbread is an umbrella term used to describe many different sweet breads, cakes, and/or cookies made using ginger and sweeteners such as honey, treacle, or molasses. Since antiquity, gingerbread has evolved from a flat slab bread into fluffy cake, chewy cookies, and as a foundation for culinary showpieces. [...]
Sweeteners What are Sweeteners? Sweeteners are carbohydrates are characterized by their sweet taste. The most common ones in baking are mono and disaccharides. These ingredients are essential components of baked goods. They are added to yeast-leavened products, as well as to chemically-leavened sweet goods like batter cakes and cookies. Although, then they [...]
Molasses Also known as blackstrap or cane molasses What is Molasses? Molasses is a general term used for the concentrated juice obtained from sugarcane and sugar beet after the removal of sucrose. The result is a heavy, dark-colored and viscous liquid. Some common uses in baked goods include cookies, biscuits and breads.1 [...]
Brown Sugar What is Brown Sugar? Brown sugar is granulated cane sugar with added molasses. It is coarser and more moist than white sugar and imparts a unique flavor and dark color to food systems. Two main forms of brown sugar are available: Unrefined Partially refined Origin Brown sugar originated [...]
