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    Home » Recipes » Christmas Food

    Christmas Sugar adds the sweetest touch

    December 2, 2020 By Sara McCleary Updated December 2, 2020 - This post may contain affiliate links

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    Christmas sugar adds a sweet touch to your Christmas cooking. The flavours are inspired by the Viennese Christmas Markets in Austria.

    It can be used as a flavouring for hot drinks, cold coffee frappes, and to finish off pies, pastries, shortbread, or sweet Christmas breads.

    Try a sprinkle of this on hot buttered toast instead of cinnamon sugar, or sprinkle on Christmas morning French toast. They are two personal fave uses of mine.

    Sara xxx

    Jars of Christmas sugar stacked on top of each other with ribbon.

    Ingredients

    Christmas sugar recipe ingredients
    1. Vanilla Sugar: Also known as Vanillin Sugar, Can be found in the herbs and spices aisle in your local supermarket. You could make your own vanilla sugar with caster sugar/superfine sugar (not granulated) that has been infused with vanilla pods.
    2. Ground Cinnamon: A staple flavour in Christmas fare.
    3. Ground Coriander: An unlikely suspect of spice to be added, but it adds a gorgeous rich rounded aroma and taste.
    4. Ground Ginger: Ginger is associated with Christmas, and this adds to the festive spirit of the Sugar.
    5. Ground Clove: Not too much, a little goes a long way, only add an eighth of a teaspoon.
    6. Ground Nutmeg: An expected spice and this mix wouldn't be the same without it.
    7. Star Anise: Well hello there stranger! It's almost like I threw this in there to see if you were paying attention. Whole star anise are added to the spice mix. They impart a beautiful and subtle aniseed aroma to the sugar without actually being an ingredient. But a key ingredient they are.
    twists of pastry on plate

    What Can I Use it For?

    A bit like pumpkin pie spice, once it is in your pantry you find endless uses for it. Christmas sugar also makes a wonderful homemade Christmas gift.

    • Roll logs of slice and bake cookies in the sugar, set in the fridge, slice, and bake for an easy festive cookie.
    • Make puff pastry twists. Cut pastry into lengths, brush with butter, sprinkle with sugar, twist, and bake.
    • A sugary finish to sweet breads and pastries.
    • Replace normal sugar in your coffee or coffee frappes.
    • Instead of cinnamon sugar on buttered toast.
    • Sprinkle on French toast.
    • Rim the glasses of festive cocktails.
    • A dusting over the top of fruit mince pies.
    pastry twists using Christmas sugar on a plate

    Recipe Walk Through

    ingredients in a bowl with a whisk

    Place sugar and spices in a mixing bowl.

    Mix well until well combined and there are no lumps.

    Make sure to break up any lumps. I find that a whisk does this job well.

    Mixing ingredients in a bowl
    mixed ingredients in a bowl

    Add star anise to the mix.

    Store Christmas sugar in an airtight container or small glass jars.

    If storing in small jars for gifts, add one star anise to each jar of sugar.

    Christmas sugar in jars

    Christmas Sugar

    Recipe Author: Sara McCleary
    Christmas sugar adds a sweet touch to your Christmas cooking. The flavours are inspired by the Viennese Christmas Markets in Austria.
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    Prep Time 5 mins
    Total Time 5 mins
    Course Baking, Condiment
    Cuisine Austrian
    Servings 40
    Calories 10 kcal

    Special Equipment

    • mixing bowl + spoon/whisk

    Ingredients

    • 100 grams (½ cup) vanilla sugar
    • 2 whole star anise
    • 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
    • 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
    • ½ teaspoon ground coriander
    • ½ teaspoon ground ginger
    • one eighth teaspoon ground clove

    Instructions
     

    • Place sugar and spices in a mixing bowl.
    • Mix well until well combined and there are no lumps.
      Except for the star anise of course, it is whole and therefore lumpy.
    • Add star anise to the Christmas sugar.
    • Store Christmas sugar in an airtight container or small glass jars. If storing in small jars for gifts, add one star anise to each jar of sugar.

    Notes

    USES FOR CHRISTMAS SUGAR
    A bit like pumpkin pie spice, once it is in your pantry you find endless uses for it. Christmas sugar also makes a wonderful homemade Christmas gift.
    • Roll logs of slice and bake cookies in the sugar, set in the fridge, slice, and bake for an easy festive cookie.
    • Make puff pastry twists. Cut pastry into lengths, brush with butter, sprinkle with sugar, twist, and bake.
    • A sugary finish to sweet breads and pastries.
    • Replace normal sugar in your coffee or coffee frappes.
    • Instead of cinnamon sugar on buttered toast.
    • Sprinkle on French toast.
    • Rim the glasses of festive cocktails.
    • A dusting over the top of fruit mince pies.
     
    GENERAL COOK’S NOTES
    All oven temperatures are for a conventional oven, if using fan forced lower the temperature by 20 Deg C (70 Deg F).
    All measurements are Australian tablespoons and cups. All measures are level, and cups are lightly packed unless specified;
    • 1 teaspoon equals 5ml
    • 1 tablespoon equals 20 ml (Nth America, NZ & UK use 15ml tablespoons)
    • 1 cup equals 250ml (Nth America use 237ml)
    • 4 teaspoons equals 1 tablespoon
    • I use the below unless specified in my recipes;
    Herbs are fresh | Vegetables are of a medium size | Eggs are roughly 60 grams in weight (large)
     
    NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION BELOW IS A GUIDE ONLY

    Nutrition

    Calories: 10kcalCarbohydrates: 3gProtein: 1gFat: 1gSaturated Fat: 1gSodium: 1mgFiber: 1gSugar: 3gCalcium: 1mgIron: 1mg
    Keyword spiced sugar for baking, Viennese Christmas Sugar
    Did You Make This Recipe?I do a happy dance when people share how they went. Tag me on Instagram or Twitter @bellyrumbles & #bellyrumbles

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