Milk Street Caramel Brûlée Coffee Sugar — Set of 3
Milk Street Mexican Mocha Coffee Sugar — Set of 3
In our custom Mocha Mexican Coffee Sugar, earthy, aromatic cinnamon defines the chocolate’s flavor, coaxing out its fruitiness and tempering the bitterness without excessive sweetness. We use chipotle chili powder for its smoky depth, which pairs well with the spicy cinnamon and adds a subtle touch of heat.
Milk Street Turkish Cardamom Spice Coffee Sugar — Set of 3
This fragrant, spicy blend is inspired by the tiny, potent cups of coffee we found in the Middle East brewed with ground green cardamom pods. We round out cardamom's sharp spice with a touch of cinnamon, vanilla and a hint of bittersweet cocoa, as they do in Scandinavia.
Milk Street Burnt Sugar Orange Spice Coffee Sugar — Set of 3
Inspired by café brulot diabolique from New Orleans, our orange-flavored sugar has the warmth of cinnamon and allspice and a subtle smoky aroma.
Mount Mansfield Maple Products Maple Syrup
This incredibly rich syrup has notes of butterscotch, honey and toasted sugar, with a heady base of vanilla and dried fruit. A member of our kitchen team likened its richness to a melted Werther's candy. It’s medium-bodied, which means it can easily be drizzled, but never too watery like store-bought versions. Compared to others, this one has a strong “true maple” flavor to it—nothing like more run-of-the-mill syrups that often have an off pine taste.
India Tree Dark Muscovado Sugar
Conventional brown sugar is simply white, refined sugar moistened with molasses. On the other hand, raw muscovado sugar has a rich, earthy and almost smoky flavor, as well as a high molasses content. India Tree’s moist-textured variety, processed in Mauritius, can be substituted for dark brown sugar in any recipe (we tested this) or used to add extra flavor to coffee, tea or cocktails (perfect in an Old Fashioned).
India Tree Superfine Caster Sugar
Specially formulated for baking, superfine caster sugar has a smaller, more delicate grain than regular white sugar, which makes it much easier to incorporate into recipes. The sugar crystals dissolve faster because of their size, so it might read as a little sweeter than standard sugar to some because of how fast it melts on the tongue. Although this kind of sugar is fairly available in grocery stores, we like this one best for its high quality and simple packaging, which makes it easy to pour into the jar or canister of your choice. This really is a fantastic upgrade to your standard plain white sugar.
Just Panela Granulated Panela Sugar
Here at Milk Street we have rediscovered more flavorful pantry items including flours, vinegars, oils, and salts. At the top of our list, however, is sugar. This raw, unrefined sugar from Colombia packs a complex, earthy flavor that’s terrific in everything from tea, coffee and cocktails to oatmeal or grapefruit. The bittersweet flavor also does well in savory applications, like a pot of Mexican beans or tomato-based pasta sauces. It will become your sugar bowl standard.
Murakami Syouten Crushed Okinawa Brown Sugar
Big Island Bees Macadamia Nut Blossom Honey
This floral, nutty honey from Hawaii is almost impossibly smooth and slippery considering its high viscosity, with a rounded, velvety mouthfeel. Produced without any heat or filtration, it retains a rich, deep flavor that's reminiscent of butterscotch and maple, without the bitterness of similarly dark honeys.
Mount Mansfield Maple "The Maple Block"
This block is made from just pure organic Vermont maple syrup—that’s it. As maple syrup connoisseurs, we adore the rich stuff from Vermont’s Mount Mansfield Maple: a family farm that harvests maple sap from over 1,000 acres of well-cared-for maple trees. This maple block is essentially a large cube of maple sugar candy, which is made by boiling maple sap past the point of syrup until it crystallizes into hard sugar. The taste is sweet, maple-forward with light caramelized notes. To use, simply grate a pile of sweet flakes that can be swirled into coffee or tea, top meats for the grill and, of course, enhance all kinds of desserts.
Mount Mansfield Bourbon Barrel Aged Maple Syrup
This malty maple syrup is made from Grade A Amber Rich syrup before being aged for two and a half to three months in charred oak bourbon barrels from a small craft distillery in Chicago. Though lighter in color compared to the Grade B, the sweetness of the pure Vermont syrup is balanced beautifully by dark bourbon flavor, which comes through clearly, along with strong whiskey notes that spread across your tongue. The flavor lingers too, leaving behind a touch of leather from the oak barrel and a faint tingle from the whiskey burn.
Finding Home Farms Rye Barrel Aged Maple Syrup
Unlike other Grade A syrups, which can often come across too delicate for full-fledged maple lovers like us, this one—winner of a 2020 Good Food Award—is incredibly rich and complex. That’s because it’s aged in rye whiskey barrels, which impart the spirit’s distinctive spicy, warming taste into the syrup to further bring out its maple flavor. The result is an amber wonder—bold butterscotch notes at the fore followed by soft, warm spice and caramelized sugar undertones. It’s not boozy and smoky as you might expect, but rather rounded, earthy and complex. Like a fine wine, the syrup’s flavor blooms the longer it sits on your tongue.
Blossoms Syrup Blackcurrant Syrup
The first ingredient in this Blackcurrant Syrup by Blossoms Syrups is real blackcurrant juice concentrate, so the syrup actually tastes like blackcurrant, not a laboratory formulation of what blackcurrant should taste like. Winner of a Great Taste winner in 2013, the flavor of blackcurrant—a staple ingredient in a Kir Royale cocktail—in this dark colored syrup is intensely tart and sweet. A slight earthiness and hit of acid make it stand out from anything else we’ve tried on the market. It hits all the marks and doesn’t contain any colorings or flavorings. Use it in cocktails like a Kir Royale, in the classic desse