Sugar Sweet

I was baking (again) at the weekend and it crossed my mind to mention something that I have been doing for ages – I’m not going to pretend that this is going to make you rich, it’s just one of those “little things” that help with the overall grand plan, in fact it started off as more to do with the waistline than the purse!!

For most of my usual baking recipes I reduce the amount of sugar by one two or even 3 ounces, after all the sugar is a taste thing and doesn’t affect the way most things turn out.   For example a recipe calling for 4 ounces of sugar I either reduce to 3 or even sometimes 2 depending on what else will be added, in the case of fairy cakes, if you are icing them once cooled, or adding buttercream you won’t even notice the missing sugar in the cake.   A cake with fruit such as Date and Walnut has added sweetness and sugar from the fruit so again won’t be noticed.

Another thing about sugar, on most occasions I ignore the call for Caster Sugar and use ordinary Granulated, Caster is more expensive and there is no difference taste or texture wise and sometimes I mix an ounce or two of granulated into the brown sugars, just to help them go a bit further as these too are more expensive than ordinary Granulated.

As I said this is no “Get rich quick” plan, but it does help stretch things out a little and hopefully has a positive effect on the waistline!!!