4 Things You Need to Know About Cooking With Honey
Honey consists of sucrose and fructose.
Honey tastes sweeter than table sugar, so less honey offers the same or more sweetness and you’re likely consuming fewer calories. In cooking for example replace 1 cup of honey with 1 ¼ cups sugar.
When baking with honey, search and find a recipe developed especially for honey because simply replacing sugar with honey fails to account for the many properties of honey that differ from sugar, i.e. honey is a liquid, honey has browning qualities so oven temperatures need to be reduced.
Breads and cakes baked with honey as an ingredient stay moist longer than sugar sweeteners because honey is hygroscopic, which means it collects moisture from the air around it.