Brown sugar with tonka bean

How to Use Brown Sugar with Tonka Bean?

Brown sugar with tonka bean, with its warm and slightly spicy flavor, adds an exotic and refined touch to many sweet dishes. Use it to enhance the flavor of desserts like crème brûlée, puddings, fruit pies, or in pancake and crepe preparations.

Some Recipe Ideas with Brown Sugar with Tonka Bean

• Crème brûlée with Tonka Bean: Sprinkle a pinch of brown sugar with tonka bean on top of the crème brûlée before caramelizing it. This will create a deliciously fragrant crust.
• Apple Pie with Tonka Bean: Dust brown sugar with tonka bean over the apples before arranging them in the pie. It will add a subtle aromatic note that pairs perfectly with fruity flavors.
• Tonka Bean Granola: Mix brown sugar with tonka bean into your homemade granola recipe for a crispy and aromatic breakfast recipe.
• Tonka Bean Pancakes: Incorporate brown sugar with tonka bean into the pancake batter to give them a warm and exotic flavor. Serve them with fresh fruits and a drizzle of maple syrup.

The Sweet Flavors of Brown Sugar with Tonka Bean

The sugar crystals infused with the woody and spicy notes of tonka bean bring a delicate warmth to your recipes. The characteristic vanilla flavor of tonka bean harmoniously blends with the richness of brown sugar.

Exploring the Tropical Culture of Tonka Bean

The Coumarou, a gigantic tree that sustains the green lung of the Earth, produces orange fruits reminiscent of mangoes in shape. When ripe, this fruit provides reddish, almond-sized oblong beans, which are dried for nearly a year and then soaked in strong alcohol for 24 hours. After this lengthy process, they are dried again and become black and wrinkled. Its aromas of sweet almond, vanilla, caramel, coffee for some, or "Amsterdamer" tobacco cherished by our grandfathers for others, are incredibly delicate. Its taste is warm and indulgent with a slight bitterness reminiscent of cocoa.

Tonka Bean, a Lucky Bean

In French Guiana, to make a wish, one needs a tonka bean in their left hand and a dead snake in the other. To make their wish come true, all they have to do is throw the bean into a watercourse and hang the snake in the highest branches of a tonka bean tree, the Coumarou, a Brazilian teak tree. The name "Tonka" comes from the Tupi language of the French Guiana Tupis.