David Tamarkin

We get a lot of questions like this at King Arthur.

How can I take the sugar out of this?

Can I cut the sugar down?

If you peruse the reviews of any of our bakeries, you will probably find someone in there who has claimed to have the sugar, you know, and that it worked.

And did it work?

Yeah.

I mean, you can do this, as the caller said.

You can take the sugar down, but you're going to end up with a different product.

It's going to be more crumbly.

And the reason why the graham cracker crust is going to be more crumbly is because the sugar isn't there to melt and bind it together.

Right.

So your first option is, yeah, you can cut the sugar and you'll have a different thing.

You'll have a crumbly crust.

Sounds like this caller doesn't want that.

So your other option, I would say, is if you want to reduce the sugar in the crust, find something that has less sugar than a graham cracker.

Yeah.

Which is going to be a little tough because graham crackers aren't particularly sweet.

But you could go with a...

With like a salty cracker.

You could go with, I don't know why this is coming to mind, but you could go with oyster crackers.