Perfect Golden Syrup Substitute Recipe - Gemma’s Bigger Bolder Baking (2024)

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What can I use instead of golden syrup in baking? ›

In the U.S., golden syrup is usually sold under the name of light treacle, but it's not readily available in many grocery stores. In cooking recipes, molasses and light treacle are often used interchangeably because their textures and flavor profiles are similar.

Sugar and Water

Even if all you have on hand is a sack of sugar, you can simmer some with equal part water to make an easy substitute for maple syrup.

It can be used wherever honey is used, providing a lesser flavour spectrum but saving rather a lot of cost; this would include on porridge, pancakes and waffles, in flapjacks, ginger cakes and similar. To really showcase this ingredient, try making our golden syrup dumplings.

Beyond its sweetening powers, golden syrup also plays a crucial role as a binding agent in cakes. It helps to bring the dry ingredients together and create the perfect texture, helping to achieve a light and fluffy sponge.

Brown sugar is often considered to be a less refined version of granulated white sugar. It has a rich caramel-like flavour similar to golden syrup, but isn't as buttery in its taste. Similar to white sugar, it's best to dissolve the brown sugar in warm water to use it as a golden syrup substitute.

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Golden syrup is mellower and made from sugar

It also contains more sucrose than maple syrup and, as a result, has a sweeter flavour. Left: sugar cane. Right: sugar beet. Unlike maple syrup, golden syrup is produced from sugar.

Golden syrup, or light treacle, is a thick sugar syrup. With its golden, amber color, it is lighter than molasses, though the two are similar in their thickness. Golden syrup also a liquid sweetener, so 1 cup of golden syrup can replace 1 cup of molasses.

If you're looking for a simple syrup substitute, there are three favorites you probably have right in your home: honey, maple syrup and agave. For honey or agave, add warm water to them, to help turn the mix to syrup. You can also use a sweet, juicy fruit, like an orange.

Can I substitute honey for syrup? ›

If you are wondering if you can replace maple syrup with honey, you absolutely can! You'll likely enjoy trying something new.

This is probably the easiest, fastest way to get a delicious maple syrup substitute: mix some jam (or jelly, or preserves, or marmalade) with a splash of water in a small pan over medium heat. Whisk until smooth, adding more water as needed until you get a nice, syrupy consistency.

Honey contains antioxidants, vitamins, antimicrobials, and minerals. Golden syrup contains some micronutrients but at very low levels. Honey is a natural product with minimal processing. Golden syrup is a by-product of sugar processing.

Agave syrup is about one-and-a-half times sweeter than sugar, which means you can achieve the same sweetness while using less. It's a versatile and easy to use syrup, and good for sweetening hot drinks, porridge and bakes – it can be used in place of golden syrup, for example.

In the case of sponges, cookies and syrups that ask for golden caster sugar, regular caster sugar is your best option. It performs on par to golden caster sugar in terms of how it reacts to other ingredients, how it sets upon cooling and in a recipe and where you want to keep flavour pure, white caster sugar is best.

However, glass or spoon, rub with a vegetable oil first, honey or syrup then comes off easily. Also hot water spray afterward helps.

Golden syrup - if you're unable to buy golden syrup then you can substitute it for corn syrup, honey or maple syrup. Egg yolk - use just the egg yolk (rather than the whole egg) to make the perfect gingerbread cookie mixture!

Maple Syrup

That said, it has nutrients such as antioxidants, calcium, iron and potassium, and you can cut your sugar consumption by about 33% by using maple syrup instead. Maple syrup is also friendlier toward your blood sugar, with a glycemic index of 54 versus table sugar's 65.