Can I substitute honey for brown sugar in n oatmeal cookie recipe-if so how much=1 cup of brown sugar?!


Question: You're asking for trouble since brown sugar is a dry ingredient, and honey is a wet one. You would have to decrease your other wet ingredients, and that's too hard to just wing. Either find a recipe that calls for honey, or just replace the brown sugar with regular granulated white.


Answers: You're asking for trouble since brown sugar is a dry ingredient, and honey is a wet one. You would have to decrease your other wet ingredients, and that's too hard to just wing. Either find a recipe that calls for honey, or just replace the brown sugar with regular granulated white.

Not really. Brown sugar adds a certain consistancy to the cookie.

You could for white sugar but not brown sugar.

Not sure why you need to substitute it but, here is a recipe with only 1/2 a cup

1 cup whole wheat flour
1 1/2 cups quick-cooking oats
1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
2/3 cup applesauce
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1/2 cup dried sweetened cranberries (recommended: Craisins)
1 egg
1 tablespoon butter, softened

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
In a large bowl, combine all of the ingredients. Stir until well blended.

Scoop 2 tablespoons of batter and drop onto a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Flatten each cookie with the back of the tablespoon. Repeat until sheet is full, being careful not to crowd. Bake for about 10 minutes, or until lightly golden.

Cool on a wire rack for at least 5 minutes. Store in an airtight container.

To make a cookie-frozen yogurt sandwich, place 1 small scoop of fat-free frozen yogurt on a cookie and top with a second cookie

Brown sugar is nothing more than Granulated sugar with Molasses added. So if you add honey instead of brown sugar you won't get a cookie...more like a blob! Sorry

Some minor adjustments may need to be made to a recipe when substituting honey for sugar:

1. Use equal amounts of honey for sugar up to one cup. Over one cup, replace each cup of sugar with 2/3 to 3/4 cup over honey depending upon the sweetness desired.

2. Lower the baking temperature 25 degrees and watch your time carefully since products with honey brown faster.

3. In recipes using more than one cup honey for sugar, it may be necessary to reduce liquids by 1/4 cup per cup of honey.

4. In baked goods, add 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda per cup of honey if baking soda is not already included in the recipe. This will reduce the acidity of the honey, as well as increase the volume of your product.

Moisten a measuring spoon or cup first with water, oil, or an egg before measuring the honey to prevent it from sticking to the measuring utensil. Honey is heavy by weight. A 12 ounce jar equals one standard 8 ounce cup. A quart weighs 3 pounds.





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