Dark Muscovado Sugar

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Dark muscovado sugar is sometimes known as Barbados sugar so you may find it under this label in your supermarket. It is a very dark brown, moist sugar and it tastes slightly more of molasses/treacle than regular brown sugar.

You can substitute a regular moist, dark brown sugar in lieu of the muscovado. If you are measuring by weight then just switch dark brown sugar in for the muscovado. If you are using a packed cup measure then muscovado is slightly coarser than brown sugar so packs less firmly - therefore you will need to reduce the cup measure for regular brown sugar by 1 tablespoon per cup (measure the brown sugar in the cup then just scoop out 1 x 15ml tablespoon before adding the sugar o the bowl). If you have some molasses handy then you can also switch 1 tablespoon of the brown sugar in the recipe for 1 tablespoon of molasses.