I've used unrefined
muscovado because I love the resulting hint of molasses that rounds out the bitterness, but feel free to stick with whichever sugar you prefer.
Not exact matches
Muscovado sugar is great for baking
because of the deep flavor it lends, similar to sucanat and coconut sugar.
And,
because I love the flavor combination of lemon and brown sugar, I worked some brown (
muscovado) sugar into the icing.
Think I might replace the coconut sugar with
muscovado sugar,
because I'm obsessed with the stuff and also #sweetish.
I like to use
muscovado sugar for cooking
because it's less refined.
I used
muscovado sugar
because it's super rich and helps to deepen the flavor of the custard, but feel free to use cane sugar, brown sugar, sucanat, etc..
Cons
Muscovado sugar is more expensive than regular brown sugar, and
because it's less refined, bakers may find a few small, hard nubbins of not - fully - processsed sugar.
I highly recommend trying to get your hands on
muscovado sugar
because even though brown sugar is an acceptable substitute, it's just not the same.