What Is Golden syrup and How Can I Use It?
Wondering what to do with golden syrup? This guide covers how to pick it, cook it, store it, and swap it — with 29 recipes to put it to work.
What is golden syrup?
Golden syrup is a pale treacle. It is a thick, amber-colored form of inverted sugar syrup, made in the process of refining sugar cane juice into sugar, or by treatment of a sugar solution with acid.
It is used in a variety of baking recipes and desserts. It has an appearance similar to honey, and is often used as a substitute for people who do not eat honey. It can also be used as a substitute for corn syrup.
Molasses or dark treacle have a richer colour than golden syrup, and a stronger, slightly bitter flavour.
Where found
Golden syrup is usually found in the baking supplies section or aisle of the grocery store or supermarket.
| In Chinese: | 金糖浆 | |
| British (UK) term: | ||
| en français: | sirop de sucre roux | |
| en español: | miel de caña |
Recipes using golden syrup
There are 29 recipes that contain this ingredient.
Chewy-centred Chocolate Chip Cookies
Crispy at the edges and chewy in the middle. For those days when you feel like having a chewy cookie for a change.
Homemade Coffee Milk Pudding
A two-layer coffee milk pudding, a creamy vanilla milk base topped with a sweet coffee layer, both set with gelatin and chilled until sliceable. A light, pretty dessert for coffee lovers.
Brandy Snaps
Crisp tubular cookies that can be eaten filled or filled with your favorite filling - typically a brandied whipped cream during Christmas time. A British favorite.
Spice Bread
An Irish-style spice bread loaded with raisins, candied peel, and golden syrup, spiced with ginger and mixed spice. Pop the ingredients in your bread machine and let it do the work for a warmly fragrant loaf.
Jim's All Bran Bread
All Bran bread soaked overnight in strong tea with mixed dried fruit and golden syrup. A dense, malty British tea bread that improves with age, served sliced and buttered.
Master Chef Double Chocolate Cookies
Double chocolate oat cookies in the Aussie Anzac style: cocoa dough studded with chocolate chips, oats, and coconut, bound with golden syrup, then finished with a dark chocolate drizzle. Crisp, chewy, and deeply chocolatey.
Spice Bread (Irish): [Aran Spiosrai]
Aran Spiosrai is a traditional Irish spice bread with raisins, candied fruit, golden syrup, and mixed spice baked low and slow in a loaf pan. It actually gets better after a day or two as the flavors deepen.
Brandy Wafers
Crisp, lacy brandy wafers spiced with ginger and rolled into elegant tubes while still warm. Golden syrup gives them a buttery toffee crunch that shatters with every bite.
Parkin
Yorkshire parkin made with fine oatmeal, golden syrup, lard, ginger, and mixed spice. A traditional sticky English gingerbread that improves after a few days wrapped in foil.
British Golden Syrup Gingerbread Men
British-style gingerbread men with golden syrup, butter, and warm ginger. Crisp edges, chewy centers, decorated with currants for classic holiday cookies.
Chocolate Fudge Cake with Caramel Sauce
A decadent chocolate fudge cake will make everyone who tastes it give you a big "wow"!
White Cake with Sticky Brownie Base
A fudgy brownie base topped with creamy white chocolate ice cream, frozen into a showstopping dessert. Crisp, gooey, and cold in every bite.
Butterscotch Fondue
Rich butterscotch fondue made with demerara sugar, golden syrup, evaporated milk, and chopped peanuts. Serve warm with sliced apples, pears, bananas, and popcorn for dipping.
Fruit Cake-Myrtle
Myrtle's fruit cake bakes a brown-sugar-and-golden-syrup batter loaded with currants, sultanas, candied orange peel, and warming spices. British-style heritage Christmas loaf cake.
Three Seed Bread
Rustic whole wheat loaf packed with sunflower, sesame, and pumpkin seeds, sweetened with a touch of golden syrup. Crusty outside, nutty and dense inside. Proper homemade bread.
Moggy
Moggy is a traditional Manx and Lancashire sweet bread loaf made with flour, lard, and golden syrup. Crumbly, dense, and faintly molasses-like. Sliced and buttered thick the way the British Isles have done it for centuries.
Mascarpone with Wafers, Caramelised Fresh Figs & Orange Sauc
Mascarpone sandwiched between crispy ginger brandy wafers with caramelized fresh figs and orange sauce. A stunning restaurant-style plated dessert with snap and tuile textures.
Gorgous Gooey Cinnamon Bread
This is great with a cup of sweetened tea on a winter morning but also good just to simply cheer you up!
Toffee Cream Cake
Crisp almond meringue base layered with homemade golden syrup toffee cream, billowy whipped cream, and a dusting of cocoa. An elegant British-style cake with a nearly gluten-free base.
Bronwyn's Oatmeal Slice
Chewy oatmeal slice with desiccated coconut and golden syrup baked until golden on the edges and soft in the middle. Just 7 ingredients and one bowl. Proper Aussie baking at its finest.
Christmas Tree Biscuits
British-style Christmas tree biscuits made with golden syrup, mixed spice, and brown sugar, baked with a hole at the top so they can be threaded with gold string and hung as edible ornaments. A traditional Christmas cookie.
Yorkshire Parkin (Oatmeal Gingerbread)
Parkin is a variety of gingerbread, good warming stuff to eat out of doors in cold weather. When I was a child, it was always a firm favourite for the firework party on Bonfire Night each year. This is adapted from my mother's recipe.
