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Recipes

Cook with it, not around it

It measures like sugar, so every recipe you already own still works. It does not behave like sugar in the oven or the freezer, though, and that part is worth two minutes of your time before you start.

It browns earlier

Allulose caramelises at a lower temperature than sucrose, so baked goods colour before they are cooked through. Drop the oven 25°F and start checking early.

It will not crystallise

No crystal structure means no snap and no set. Cookies stay soft and chewy, syrups stay pourable, and anything you wanted to go hard and glassy will not.

It lowers the freezing point

Frozen desserts made with it stay soft and scoopable straight from the freezer instead of setting into a block.

Everyday1 minute

Coffee, hot or iced

The swap most people make first, and the one with no trick to it.

You need

  • 1–2 tsp THRAVE Monk Fruit Sweetener
  • Coffee, brewed however you like it

Method

  1. Stir into hot coffee as you would sugar. It dissolves without the gritty stage.
  2. For iced coffee, stir it into the hot shot or the hot brew first, then pour over ice — cold liquid takes longer to dissolve anything.

What's different

Start at the same amount of sugar you normally use and adjust down. This blend is close to 1:1 for sweetness, but monk fruit lingers slightly longer on the finish, so the same spoonful can read as a little sweeter by the last mouthful.

Make ahead10 minutes

Simple syrup that stays pourable

One jar covers lemonade, iced tea, cocktails and pancakes for a fortnight.

You need

  • 1 cup THRAVE Monk Fruit Sweetener
  • 1 cup water
  • Optional: a strip of lemon peel, a split vanilla pod, or a few mint sprigs

Method

  1. Warm the water and sweetener together over a medium heat, stirring until completely clear. Do not let it boil down — you are dissolving, not reducing.
  2. Take it off the heat, add any aromatics, and leave to cool in the pan.
  3. Strain into a clean jar. Keeps in the fridge for about two weeks.

What's different

A sugar syrup eventually crystallises around the neck of the jar. This one will not, which also means it will never thicken on cooling the way a sugar syrup does. If you want it thicker, reduce it further rather than waiting.

Baking25 minutes + 30 minutes chilling

Soft chocolate chip cookies

The classic recipe, with the two adjustments that stop it going wrong.

You need

  • 225g butter, softened
  • 1 cup THRAVE Monk Fruit Sweetener
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 280g plain flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 300g dark chocolate, chopped

Method

  1. Cream the butter and sweetener until light. It will not go as fluffy as it does with sugar — that is the missing crystal structure, not a mistake.
  2. Beat in the eggs and vanilla, then fold in the flour, baking soda and salt, and finally the chocolate.
  3. Chill the dough for at least 30 minutes. This matters more here than it does with sugar, because the dough spreads faster without it.
  4. Bake at 325°F / 165°C for 10–12 minutes, until the edges are set and the middles still look underdone.
  5. Leave them on the tray for 5 minutes before moving them. They firm up as they cool.

What's different

Two changes from a sugar recipe: the oven goes down 25°F, and you pull them looking underbaked. They will brown on the bottom well before the centre is done otherwise. They also stay soft for days rather than going crisp.

Everyday5 minutes

Still lemonade

Sharp, clear, and not cloying at the bottom of the glass.

You need

  • 1 cup lemon juice (about 6 lemons)
  • ¾ cup simple syrup, from above
  • 4 cups cold water
  • Ice, and mint if you have it

Method

  1. Stir the lemon juice and syrup together in a jug.
  2. Top up with cold water, taste, and add more syrup a splash at a time.
  3. Pour over plenty of ice.

What's different

Make it with the syrup rather than stirring the sweetener straight into cold water — anything dissolves slowly in cold liquid, and you will end up with grains in the last inch of the jug.

Frozen15 minutes + 6 hours freezing

No-churn vanilla ice cream

Scoopable straight out of the freezer, with no machine.

You need

  • 600ml double cream, cold
  • 1 can (397g) sweetened condensed milk, or an unsweetened condensed milk plus ⅔ cup THRAVE
  • ⅓ cup THRAVE Monk Fruit Sweetener
  • 2 tbsp vanilla extract
  • Pinch of salt

Method

  1. Whisk the sweetener into the condensed milk with the vanilla and salt until it has fully dissolved.
  2. Whip the cream to soft peaks in a separate bowl.
  3. Fold a third of the cream into the milk to loosen it, then fold in the rest gently.
  4. Freeze in a loaf tin, covered, for at least 6 hours.

What's different

This is the one place allulose beats sugar outright. It lowers the freezing point, so the tub stays soft enough to scoop without sitting on the counter first. Do not add more than the recipe says hoping for softer still — go far enough and it will not set at all.

Make ahead10 minutes

Ten-minute berry compote

For yoghurt, porridge, pancakes, or spooned over the ice cream above.

You need

  • 400g berries, fresh or frozen
  • 3 tbsp THRAVE Monk Fruit Sweetener
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice
  • 1 tbsp chia seeds, if you want it thicker

Method

  1. Put the berries, sweetener and lemon juice in a small pan over a medium heat.
  2. Simmer for 8–10 minutes, crushing some of the fruit against the side of the pan.
  3. For a jammier texture, stir in the chia seeds off the heat and leave it for 10 minutes to thicken.
  4. Cool and keep in a jar in the fridge for up to a week.

What's different

Sugar sets a jam by drawing out water and gelling with the fruit's pectin. Allulose does not, so this stays a loose compote however long you cook it. The chia is doing the thickening, not the sweetener — and because there is no sugar preserving it, it lives in the fridge and gets eaten within the week.

One pouch covers all six

Two ingredients, measured like sugar, no conversion chart taped inside the cupboard door.

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