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
Ingredients
- 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.
- Ground Cinnamon: A staple flavour in Christmas fare.
- Ground Coriander: An unlikely suspect of spice to be added, but it adds a gorgeous rich rounded aroma and taste.
- Ground Ginger: Ginger is associated with Christmas, and this adds to the festive spirit of the Sugar.
- Ground Clove: Not too much, a little goes a long way, only add an eighth of a teaspoon.
- Ground Nutmeg: An expected spice and this mix wouldn't be the same without it.
- 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.
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.
Recipe Walk Through
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.
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
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
- 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.
- 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;
Nutrition
More Delicious Christmas Ideas
You will find a lot of Christmas recipes on Belly Rumbles, check out our Christmas cookies, foods and cakes.
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