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Homemade Sugar Cubes

By Adrianna Adarme

Updated Dec 11, 2025, Published Nov 29, 2023

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These Homemade Sugar Cubes make an easy, inexpensive gift. Make them for your friends and family, or make them for yourself! These only require two ingredients: sugar and water! Pair them with my Homemade Vanilla Extract for the ultimate home-spun gift.

Ingredients for Homemade Sugar Cubes
How to Make Homemade Sugar Cubes
Tips and Tricks
Recipes to Pair with these Homemade Sugar Cubes
Homemade Sugar Cubes Recipe Recipe

For me, a homemade gift needs to be chill to make. If it’s not, then I’ll just buy something, you know?

Ingredients for Homemade Sugar Cubes

Sugar – I like to use white granulated OR cane sugar for these sugar cubes.
Water – Yep, it’s that simple.

The Perfect Homemade Gift

I got this idea when I was walking through Harrod’s last month with and saw the saw the most adorable sugar cubes. They were shaped like snow flakes but the price was shocking (I think it was close to 30 pounds!)

That’s when I came home and challenged myself to make them. And turns out they couldn’t be simpler.

Equipment You’ll Need

The only think you do need to buy is a silicon candy mold. You may have one already, if you don’t, don’t worry because they’re not expensive.

I used a heart-shaped candy mold but feel free to use any shape you like.

How to Make Homemade Sugar Cubes

Mix together sugar and a bit of water together (exact measurements are below) until it resembles wet sand.
Then, pack the silicon mold very tightly.
Allow the sugar cubes to dry overnight in the mold.
And then pop them out of silicon mold.
You’ll end up with super cute sugar cubes!

Tips and Tricks

Adapt according to your molds! My molds were sort of deep so they ended up yielding pretty big sugar cubes (perhaps too much for a cup of coffee or tea) so I just filled them about halfway and they were perfect!

Quick dry method: If you place the silicon mold about a foot or two away from the heat source in your house, then they’ll dry even quicker.

Other Fun Sugar Cube Ideas:

If you want the sugar cubes to be a fun color, you can add a teeny drop of food coloring to the sugar/water mixture. Be sure to wear gloves when you mix it all together.
Add extracts to the sugar mixture such as almond extract, vanilla extract or lemon extract.
Get creative with the molds. I used a heart silicon mold but this would work in any simple mold. I wouldn’t recommend super intricate molds.

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5 from 18 votes

Homemade Sugar Cubes Recipe

By Adrianna Adarme Prep: 10 minutes Drying Time: 6 hours Total: 6 hours 10 minutes Servings: 30 sugar cubes (this number will vary depending on the size of your mold)

SaveSaved Pin Print This is a step-by-step DIY for Homemade Sugar Cubes. These two-ingredient sugar cubes could not be simpler to make!

Equipment

1 heart silicon mold (or something comparable)
1 bowl

Ingredients 1x2x3x

▢ 1 cup pure cane sugar or white granulated sugar
▢ 1 teaspoon water

Instructions

In a medium bowl, add the sugar. Pour in the water and and mix vigorously until the water is evenly distributed throughout the sugar. It should feel similar to damp sand. Transfer the sugar to the candy molds and press the granules down until very packed.
Air-dry, ideally overnight or at least 6 hours. Pop them out of the molds and transfer to an airtight container.

Notes

Tips and Tricks: Adapt according to your molds! My molds were sort of deep so they ended up yielding pretty big sugar cubes (perhaps too much for a cup of coffee or tea) so I just filled them about halfway and they were perfect! Quick dry method: If you place the silicon mold about a foot or two away from the heat source in your house, then they’ll dry even quicker. Other Fun Sugar Cube Ideas:

If you want the sugar cubes to be a fun color, you can add a teeny drop of food coloring to the sugar/water mixture. Be sure to wear gloves when you mix it all together.
Add extracts to the sugar mixture such as almond extract, vanilla extract or lemon extract.
Get creative with the molds. I used a heart silicon mold but this would work in any simple mold. I wouldn’t recommend super intricate molds.

Equipment: Stainless Steel Bowl | Heart Silicon Molds |

Nutrition

Calories: 23kcal

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

Additional Info

Course: Condiment, HolidayCuisine: American Like this Recipe? Please Rate & comment below!

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71 Comments

Thankyou for this. I haven’t tried it yet but I think this will be great. I just discovered that our Countries main sugar company is no longer making or selling the cubes – just as I got into using them, of course! I found they were perfect for controlling our sugar amounts in tea which we drink a lot of! I thought it would be this simple BUT I never would have thought of adding vanilla or other spices so I doubly appreciate this info. I already have the perfect little one teaspoon silicon heart moulds too!
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So cute! I loved them!
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1. So glad you loved them! 🙂
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It was indeed easy, and the directions were wonderfully descriptive: it did resemble wet sand when fully mixed. We don’t find sugar cubes too often any more, so being able to make these any time makes my son happy, as he likes to add cubes to his tea. It’s also a nice touch whilst entertaining. Thank you! We will be buying more molds this week, for a variety of shapes.
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1. I love to hear that! Yeah, it’s shockingly difficult to find sugar cubes in grocery stores. I do tend to find them more often at like Williams Sonoma or Crate and Barrel! So glad this was helpful, Lola.
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Please tell me the proper way to color them. I want to make Halloween sugarcubes. Should I use regular (grocery store) food color, gel food color, edible disco dust etc? should the color be added to the dry sugar first or after it has been mixed with the water? Sorry for all the questions.
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1. oh that would be cute. i would use gel food color and add it to the tiny bit of water. you really don’t need much. i would just mix it with plastic gloves so it doesn’t stain your hands.
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try these with honey and you can most def. add herbs and lemon.
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Heart shape Sugar Moulds

Fabulous idea…why didn’t I think of that, my last trip to London I did buy the expensive Harrods ones … Thank you !!! Victoria
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1. hope you love them!
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Ty to the point.
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When adding say vanilla extract, should you omit the water and just add the same quantity of vanilla?
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1. I think that should work!
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Works great! Has anyone tried adding cinnamon to the cubes?
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I was wondering about adding fruit to the cubes like strawberry, peach, lemon. Any idea how i might do that?
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1. hmm sorry not sure!
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2. Maybe finely chop some dried fruit?
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  1. I use vanilla extract, my own, in place of the water. I think you could do the same with lemon extract.

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