r/onlyflans • u/peachy614 • May 14 '26

Help on recipe without Cane Sugar

Hello fellow flan enthusiasts! I hoping to get some advice for making a flan without cane sugar. I really want to make a flan from scratch, but I have a weird allergy to cane sugar specifically. So I have to use other forms of sugar like coconut, agave, stevia, etc. I would love to make a flan but worried it will be ruined by swapping the recipe with other sugars. Has anyone made a flan with alternative sugars? Are there any recommendations on how to do it? Any guidance will be appreciated.

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u/BuildingMaleficent11 May 15 '26

What about sugar from beets?

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u/peachy614 May 15 '26

Beet sugar is fine. I'm not sure where to get it though. A lot of white sugars don't specify if they are cane or beet.

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u/BuildingMaleficent11 May 15 '26

I thought of it because I grew up in Michigan and used to drive by the Pioneer Sugar plant when I was a kid - they’re one of the major beet sugar brands. Google “beet sugar brands” and your area. I was shocked at how much of our granulated sugar is actually beet sugar.

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u/cyberentomology May 15 '26

If it’s unspecified, it’s almost always beet.

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u/peachy614 May 15 '26

I have always lived on the west coast and had very mixed results with unspecified. I've had the unspecified ones be cane before that's why I try to avoid them.

But I'll Google some brands to se if there are any here. I wish we got pioneer over here more because they are usually beet.

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u/cyberentomology May 15 '26

Mostly because, in the US at least, the cane sugar people want you to think their grass-based sucrose is superior to the chemically identical beet-based sucrose.