Let’s tantalize your taste buds by adding a flavor of smoked sugar to your cocktails and desserts. It’s a culinary delight with a rich, smoky, and savory twist to elevate your dessert game. Come and let’s dive into the world of cotton candy where the captivating aroma of smoke will leave a long-lasting impression on your delightful journey of sweetness.
What are Smoked Sugar and Smoked Cotton Candy?
Smoked sugar is a sugar that is inspired with a smoky flavor to add smokiness to your dishes. Smoked Cotton Candy is a unique twist in this delight because it doesn’t give a usual sweet flavor. The sugar used in making cotton candy is infused with a smoky taste during the spinning process. The pleasant combination of the airy, sweet, and smoky texture is an amazing hint to experience a different taste.
Ingredients for Smoked Sugar
You need just two basic ingredients to make smoked sugar i.e. smoke and sugar.
Smoke
We will use the Ninja Wood-fired Outdoor Grill for the smoke that comes from the pellets in the smoke box. You can try some other woodfire varieties to taste the smoke flavor.
Sugar
Use white cane Sugar instead of powdered and brown sugar to get a consistency in your cotton candy’s texture.
Equipment
- Two Small Aluminum Drip Pans
- Ninja Wood-fired Outdoor Grill
- Spoon
How to make Smoked Sugar?
Let us know how to make smoked sugar on a Ninja woodfire grill with four simple steps.
Fill the Drip Pans
Fill the two small aluminum drip pans with ½ cups of sugar in each pan, and set them on both sides of the grill.
Fill the Smokebox
Now fill the woodfire grill smoke box with pellets and set it to the dehydrate function by pressing the woodfire flavor technology button. It will ignite the pellets to create smoke, set the time to 3 hours, and the temperature to 160 degrees Fahrenheit.
Allow the Sugar to smoke
Smoke the sugar for three hours and stir it after every 30 minutes to check that, each sugar granule gets kissed with smoke. Refill the smoke box with more pellets when you see the smoke start to fade.
Remove the Sugar
When it gets ready, remove the sugar from the grill. You can store or use it in your favorite recipes.
Recipe Tips
Placing the sugar in two separate pans is best instead of using one pan. The reason is that the Ninja Woodfire Grill has a convection fan at the top. When you place the sugar in one pan and the fan circulates, it turns some of the sugar out of the pan.
Nutritional Facts
- Calories: 16 kcal
- Carbohydrates: 4g
- Sodium: 0.04 mg
- Fat: 0.01 mg
- Sugar: 4g
- Potassium: 0.1 mg
- Iron: 0.002 mg
- Calcium: 0.04 mg
What is Cotton Candy?
Cotton Candy is a sweet treat with some flavors and food colors. It is usually made by heating and melting sugar and spinning it through small holes. It is mostly found at circuses, fairs, and carnivals and served on a wooden stick, a plastic bag, or on a paper cone.
How to make Smoked Cotton Candy?
We will make smoked cotton candy in a cotton candy machine.
Ingredients
Air Pressure
1 cup Smoked Sugar
Equipment
Cotton Candy Machine
Cotton Candy Cone or Straw
Instructions
Warm the Machine
Follow the instructions on your machine’s manual, and see how to turn your machine on for a few minutes to warm the machine elements. Then how to turn off the machine to stop the spinning.
Pour the Smoked Sugar:
Pour one spoonful of smoked sugar into the cotton candy machine by using the measuring scoop that came with the machine.
Turn on the cotton candy maker. The floss will begin to arise within a few seconds.
Place a Cotton Candy Cone
Place and twirl around a cotton candy cone to the side of the heating element within the machine. The spun sugar will rapidly stick to it. Move the straw or cone up and down, back and forth while spinning to gather all of the sugar.
Alternative Recipes to Use Smoked Sugar
Smoked sugar can be used as regular sugar. You can try it with one of the below recipes.
Smoked Sugar with Caramel Sauce
Melt the smoked sugar in a pan.
Stir it until caramelized.
Add cream or butter for smoky caramel sauce, and enjoy it.
Smoked Sugar with Sweet Potatoes
You can mix smoked sugar into sweet mashed potatoes or top it with smoked sugar crumble to get a unique flavor.
Smoked Sugar with Chocolate Truffles
Smoked sugar can be used in your favorite chocolate truffle to increase a smoky and sweet taste.
Smoked Sugar with Whiskey Sour Syrup
You can use smoked sugar with whiskey and lemon juice by dissolving smoked sugar in warm water and using the syrup to enhance smokey flavor.
Smoked Sugar with Citrus Salad Dressings
Use smoked sugar with citrus juice, and olive oil and drizzle the dressing over salads to get smokiness.
How to store Smoked Sugar?
Smoked sugar can be stored in an air-tight jar for a long time. But remember do not freeze it.
Smoked Sugar and Cotton Candy On Ninja Woodfire Grill
Description
Smoked sugar is a sugar that is inspired with a smoky flavor to add smokiness to your dishes.
Ingredients
Instructions
- Fill the Drip Pans: Fill the two small aluminum drip pans with ½ cups of sugar in each pan, and set them on both sides of the grill.
- Fill the Smokebox: Now fill the woodfire grill smoke box with pellets and set it to the dehydrate function by pressing the woodfire flavor technology button. It will ignite the pellets to create smoke, set the time to 3 hours, and the temperature to 160 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Allow the Sugar to smoke: Smoke the sugar for three hours and stir it after every 30 minutes to check that, each sugar granule gets kissed with smoke. Refill the smoke box with more pellets when you see the smoke start to fade.
- Remove the Sugar: When it gets ready, remove the sugar from the grill. You can store or use it in your favorite recipes.
Notes
- Placing the sugar in two separate pans is best instead of using one pan. The reason is that the Ninja Woodfire Grill has a convection fan at the top. When you place the sugar in one pan and the fan circulates, it turns some of the sugar out of the pan.
Servings 4
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories 16
- % Daily Value *
- Total Fat 0.01g1%
- Sodium 0.04mg1%
- Potassium 0.1mg1%
- Total Carbohydrate 4g2%
- Sugars 4g
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily value may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Recipe FAQs
What type of sugar is best to make smoked sugar?
Pure white cane sugar is best to make good smoked sugar.
Can we smoke sugar without having a Ninja Woodfire Grill?
Yes, but it’s quite difficult because the Ninja Woodfire Grill can get down to 160 degrees Fahrenheit. If you smoke it at a high temperature, then the sugar will melt.
Does Cotton Candy taste the same as sugar?
The taste of cotton candy is artificial. It’s also called spun sugar because sugar is spun into light and airy strands of sweetness. Some people add a bit of flavor and colors to make it more tasty.
What are the two basic ingredients in smoked cotton candy?
Smoked Cotton Candy is made with only two ingredients: air and smoked sugar.
