Here are the most common liquid sweeteners and what you need to know to get the most out of them in your kitchen.
There’s a wide variety of sweeteners available to home cooks and bakers, including dry sugars and syrups, and natural products and those that are less so. It can be a broad and complex category to cover fully, particularly when you factor in their uses and how they can impact the outcome of recipes.Liquid sweeteners are great for stirring into drinks, whisking into dressings and mixing into sauces in savory cooking.
Perhaps the most obvious difference between liquid sweeteners and granulated sugar is moisture content. . So if you were to swap in a syrup for dry sugar in a baking recipe, you’d need to either add more flour or reduce the amount of added liquid to achieve the intended consistency.“For every cup of liquid sweetener used, reduce the added liquid in the recipe by about 3 to 4 tablespoons,” Kye Ameden of King Arthur Baking wrote as a rough approximation for. “If the recipe contains no added liquid, increase the flour by about 3 to 4 tablespoons for every cup of liquid sweetener used .
However, this only addresses the moisture issue. Liquid sweeteners also have varying levels of sweetness, are more acidic than table sugar , and don’t contribute the same physical attributes as dry sugar, such as when creaming with butter. It’s important to keep all of these things in mind if you want to make ingredient swaps on your own.
Here are the most common liquid sweeteners available in the United States and what you need to know to get the most out of them in your kitchen.
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