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Sugar v. Canderel

tru · 2009-09-04 16:47:06

Or some other sugar substitute :D My mum is diabetic, I want to make some cakes for her. I thought it would be easy, just replace the sugar with Canderel. But weight for weight can't be right - Canderel is so light that I'd have to put mountains of the stuff in :D How much should I use? Should I use the same volume? ie.…

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recovering_spendaholic Posts: 3,062 Forumite

10 September 2009 at 9:28PM

Hi - as far as I know Canderel loses its taste at high temperatures but Splenda doesn't. I have used splenda and replace it volume for volume - but another alternative is the Splenda brown sugar, which you just replace with half the amount of sugar - so if you need 150g sugar just use 75g Canderel brown sugar. I find that it tastes much nicer than the white Splenda and you can nearly always get it cheap in Home Bargains or B&M.

Jane

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