El Piloncillo de Panela

Brown sugar, how come you taste so good?
Brown Sugar, just like a young girl should.

The main ingredient in the making of mexican candies, as well as sweetener for many beverages.

It is basically whole cane sugar; derived from the boiling and evaporation of sugarcane juice that’s just a purification step away from being muscovado sugar. You know, it’s things like this that make you realise how sugar makes no sense and is more complicated than it needs to be -_-

In Mexico, panela is known best as piloncillo (“little pylon”) after the shape it is usually sold in; and since the name panela is already used to call a type of mexican cheese.

It’s uses are mostly for making desserts, candies and as sweetener for beverages, but there’s also recipes for salsas that call for it.