The methods were ranked according to ease, length of time to soften and the texture of the revived sugar.

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Recently, as I was fishing out all my baking ingredients to whip up some snickerdoodles, I noticed my brown sugar had hardened. Luckily, I know the microwave trick, so I was able to soften it back to ...

Learn how to prevent clumps, which containers work best, and what to do if your brown sugar has already hardened. Brown sugar doesn’t always behave. One day it’s perfectly soft and scoopable; the next ...

Chocolate chunk cookies with sea salt. (Susan M. Selasky/Detroit Free Press/TNS) Chocolate chunk cookies with sea salt. (Susan M. Selasky/Detroit Free Press/TNS) Q: What’s the best way to soften brown ...

How maddening to reach for the brown sugar, expecting it to be soft and fluffy, only to find a rock-hard clump in the bottom of the box. Or how about this: Brown sugar is on sale, so you stock up.

How maddening to reach for the brown sugar, expecting it to be soft and fluffy, only to find a rock-hard clump in the bottom of the box. Or how about this: Brown sugar is on sale, so you stock up.

What's the best way to store every kind of sugar and restore it if it becomes hard as a rock? An expert from Domino Sugar weighs in. Store granulated sugar in an airtight container to prevent clumping ...

Before I get to the "how," to find these methods, I searched on websites, social media, cookbooks and more to find the most common (and most promising) methods for softening rock-hard brown sugar. I ...