White crystal: used everyday for baking and sweetening, white sugar is made of uniform crystals giving it a regular texture and consistency.
Caster sugar: a superfine white sugar (with small crystals) which dissolves easily making it perfect for meringues, jellies, puddings and baking. It can also be used to sprinkle over fruit or baked products.
Pure icing sugar: 100% natural sugar in a powdered form which is used in cakes, shortbreads, icings, cream fillings and fondant or anywhere a soft, finished texture is required.
It is also available as icing sugar mixture, which contains starch, usually from tapioca, to help prevent lumps forming.
Brown sugar: used in both sweet and savoury recipes due to its lovely caramel flavour. A soft, fine granulated sugar containing a concentration of natural syrups giving it its soft natural caramel colour and aroma. It is also available as dark brown sugar, which contains natural molasses syrup.
Raw sugar: a natural granulated sugar which is golden in colour and tastes a little like honey. Used as a sweetener for coffee and in recipes for biscuits and cakes made with wholemeal flours and other less processed ingredients. Also available as raw caster sugar.
Golden demerara: a small grained sugar, rich golden in colour with a subtle molasses flavour – perfect to sweeten coffee. Also good in baking.
Palm sugar: made from the sap of the sugar palm tree. Sold in hard cakes and usually light brown in colour. Used in Asian food and usually grated to measure, it can be substituted with brown sugar.
Coconut sugar: made from the sap of cut flower buds from the coconut palm, it is often confused with palm sugar. It is subtly sweet with a caramel flavour and comes in crystal, granule block or liquid form. It has a lower GI than other sugars and can be used in coffee, tea, baking and cooking.
Rapadura sugar: is an unrefined sugar with a unique caramel flavour, fine grain and gorgeous golden colour. It’s made by evaporating the water from the organic sugar cane juice. Sometimes called panela, it can be substituted for regular sugar in drinks and baking.
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