Brown sugar glaze, made with just 3 ingredients, in less than 5 minutes. It can be used to drizzle over cakes, breads, pastries, or any dessert.
brown sugar glaze
brown sugar glazeSugar glaze is a delicious way to make your sweets or desserts look and taste even better and is incredibly easy to make! It just required 3 ingredients and 5 minutes.
Classic sugar glaze is usually made with confectioners, icing or powdered sugar, whole milk and vanilla extract, but there are other recipes that also call for eggs or even butter.
I like to keep things simple and also make healthier alternatives for you guys, that's why I've only used 3 ingredients. This glaze is not something you want to eat every single day, but I prefer to use brown sugar and any plant milk, instead of white sugar and whole milk.
You can add this amazing brown sugar glaze on top of any dessert, but I used it to top a delicious vegan bread pudding. It also goes really well with cakes, donuts, muffins, scones, cookies, or pretty much anything that is sweet.
Making your own powdered sugar at home is really simple, you just need a powerful blender and brown sugar (any other type of sugar will do), and is ready in just 30 seconds.
brown sugar glaze ingredients
- Brown sugar - Feel free to use other types of sugar, like cane, coconut, maple or date sugar. I've never tried this recipe using other sweeteners, like maple or agave syrup, but if you give it a try and it works, please let us know.
- Unsweetened plant milk - Any type of unsweetened plant-based milk is okay, but soy milk is my favorite one. Water and other liquids like orange or lemon juice, coffee, apple cider or even liquor works great as well.
- Vanilla extract - This ingredient is optional, but if you have some vanilla extract on hand, please use it because it will make your sugar glaze taste even better.
- There are so many ingredients you can use to flavor your sugar glaze: coffee, liquor, fruit juices or zests (orange, lemon, lime, grapefruit), spices (like cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg or pumpkin pie spice), apple cider, etc.
tips to make brown sugar glaze
- I used my Vitamix blender to make the powdered brown sugar, but any powerful blender is okay. Store-bought powdered sugar is also a good choice, but I prefer to make it at home with unrefined sugar.
- Try to make your own plant milk and vanilla extract at home. They're more affordable, so easy to make and taste really good.
- Add more or less liquid, depending on how thick or thin you prefer your sugar glaze.
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Brown Sugar Glaze
Brown sugar glaze, made with just 3 ingredients, in less than 5 minutes. It can be used to drizzle over cakes, breads, pastries, or any dessert.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Total Time: 5 minutes
- Yield: 1 cup and 3 tablespoon or 19 tablespoon (approximately) 1x
- Category: How-to
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
- 1 cup brown, cane or coconut sugar (170 g)
- 3 tbsp unsweetened plant milk of your choice, I used soy milk
- ½ tsp vanilla extract (optional)
Instructions
- Add the sugar to a blender and blend until you get a powdered texture.
- Add the sugar to a bowl, among with the milk and vanilla extract. Stir until well combined. If the glaze is too thick, add more milk and if it's too thin, add more powdered brown sugar.
- Use the glaze as a classic sugar glaze for topping desserts like vegan bread pudding, donuts, banana bread, etc. Keep leftovers in a sealed container in the fridge for 4-5 days.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 tbsp
- Calories: 30
- Sugar: 7.4 g
- Sodium: 2 mg
- Fat: 0.1 g
- Carbohydrates: 7.5 g
- Protein: 0.1 g
Keywords: brown sugar glaze, sugar glaze, glaze without powdered sugar
Camille says
Excellent! Drizzle this on top of the "Amazing Chocolate Quinoa Cake" (trust me on this) in Allrecipes. Absolute YUM!!!
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Iosune Robles says
Hi Camille! So glad you liked it 🙂
Grace says
The recipe worked great the consistency of the icing was great and the floor was the beat I added some cloves and cinnamon to it and it was the best glaze for my doughnuts 10/10. Will be making again
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Iosune Robles says
Hi Grace! I'm so glad you liked our brown sugar glaze 🙂
Blu says
Didn't have a blender, would of made it easier. but I used an electric whisk to try and powder the brown sugar it kinda was hard so I used a meat hammer thing crushed it and hit it. Eh at least I got my frustration out. haha 😀 anyways, I added vanilla almond milk, a lil almond extract, and a tiny dash of cinnamon poured it over the moist carrot cake I made right before serving and it was loved by my picky brother and mom who do not like frosting lol. Happy thanksgiving 🙂
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Iosune Robles says
Hi Blu! Thanks for your kind comment 🙂 Sounds so good!
Jhada McKie says
hi, can I use powdered milk like the vanilla Lasco?
Iosune Robles says
Hi! I haven't tried it myself, sorry!
Elena says
I used whole milk and 1/2 tsp of lemon juice instead of vanilla and it turned out perfect! I used it as a glaze over a cranberry bundt cake I made. Will definitely be adding this to my list of glazes!
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Iosune Robles says
I'm so glad you liked it 🙂 I encourage you to use plant milk next time!
Kris says
Loved this thank you! I used raw brown sugar, oat milk, and vanilla. It was my first time making a glaze and it came out wonderfully. The only change I would make would be to blend my sugar a little bit more, it looks more like powder than it actually is at first.
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Iosune Robles says
So glad you liked it, Kris! Next time, try to blend your sugar a little bit more 🙂 Have a nice day!
bill says
does this glaze harden
Iosune Robles says
Hi! I think that it is not possible, sorry 🙂 Have a nice day!
Shyann.Rae says
loved it I used whole milk and it was amazing. I will not probity use this more than the standered one!
Iosune Robles says
Hi Shyann! So glad you liked our recipe! I encourage you to make it again but using plant-milk 🙂 I am sure you will love it! Have a nice day!
Kennedy says
we made haiwann cimmanon roll but no powdered sugar it amazing thank you
Iosune Robles says
Hi Kennedy! So glad you liked it 🙂
Lauren says
my mom doesn't let me eat powdered sugar so this recipe was my only option for a glaze. AMAZING!
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Lynn says
Can this glaze be frozen for future use?
Iosune says
Hi Lynn! I haven't frozen it myself, but I think it could work...
Shannon says
Yes I made the recipe. I had to use 2 % milk, used the juice of a lime with cinnamon to flavor the glaze because I was out of vanilla extract. I put the glaze over wildberry muffins. They are delicious! Thank you for the recipe!
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Iosune says
Hi Shannon! So glad you liked it 🙂
Grandma RoRo says
Question: Does this glaze hardened when set & cooled?
Iosune says
Hi Grandma! Just a little bit, but not much 🙂
Katie says
Delicious, I used less milk for a thicker glaze though.
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Iosune says
Hi Katie! Thanks 🙂 So glad you liked it!
Bella Marin says
what a wonderful recipe! so versatile and delicious!!!
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Iosune says
Hi Bella! Thanks a lot 🙂