Sugar Free Baking

mum26

I have no recipes so far but i'll be watching with interest certainly! xx

anguk

I've got a recipe for Molly cake that someone posted on here. Sorry I can't remember who it was and I just copied it into my recipe folder, but thanks to the original poster whoever you are!

Molly Cake
250g stoned dates, roughly chopped
300ml water
85g plain flour
3 tsp baking powder
1 tsp ground mixed spice
85g wholemeal flour
500g bag dried, mixed fruit
50g ground almonds
80ml orange juice

Method
Preheat the oven to 170°C, gas mark 3 and line a 900g loaf tin with baking parchment.
Put the dates and water in a pan and bring to the boil. Remove the pan from the heat and set aside.
Sieve the plain flour, baking powder and mixed spice into a bowl. Add the wholemeal flour, mixed fruit and ground almonds and stir to combine. Stir in the wet date mixture and the orange juice. Mix well.
Spoon into the loaf tin.
Bake for 45-50 minutes, or until a skewer comes out clean.
Turn out onto a wire rack and cool

tiff

Well, my MIL asked me to make a sugar free loaf for my diabetic FIL. I found this recipe and will try and make it this weekend.

http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/1056/bread-machine-sugar-free-wholemeal-loaf.aspx

thriftlady_2

I found this recipe today which I'm longing to try. Granted it has chocolate in, but use the high cocoa stuff and you get less sugar. There isn't any sugar in the actual biscuit mixture.

101 Cookbooks is a fantastic site btw;)

frugalmumof4

Thankyou for the link to the molly cake! and the biscuits look yummy!

This morning I have made some muffins. I found a recipe in optimum nutrition for children, but as usual only had 3/4 of the ingredients, but thought what the heck lets make them anyway!

this is what i used, and they taste really great

225g gluten free flour, but its says wholemeal self raising
1 tsp of cinnamon
175g grated carrot
175g grated apples
3oz chopped dates
2 eggs
100mls oil
1 tsp vanilla extract.

LEFT OUT- 50g pecans. 50g coconut, nutmeg

I blitzed all the ingredients together in the food processor and then put into muffin cases. baked for 18-20 minutes 180'c.

They taste really good with gluten free flour, so imagine even more moist with regular flour, and they would keep better as gluten free tends to dry out after a while. Really nice a sweet because of the dates, carrots and apples.

frugalmumof4

sorry, thrift lady thanks for the link to that site, looks fantastic. I have come across another site thats really good, just need to find it again!

Penelope_Penguin

We have an existing thread with lots of sugar-free baking recipes. I'll merge this thread to keep ideas together.

Penny. x

Badgi

Hi all, I'm having a lot of trouble tracking down a suitable cake to make for one of my residents birthday, we usually make bog standard sponge cakes for all our residents birthdays, I think it a little unfair to make a cake for someone's birthday and then them not being able to have a slice.

The resident in question has Type-1 diabetes so having to be really careful and would like to avoid using sweetners if possible, my knowledge of diabetes is pretty limited at best. I saw the molly cake recipe would this be suitable?

Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

rosie383

It may seem an odd question but I have faith in you guys. I want to bake something nice and sweet, but have no sugar left. I have a whole jar of golden syrup, and some icing sugar. I also have run out of plain flour, although I have SR and some bread flour.
Any ideas what I can bake? All the recipes that I have using syrup also require some sugar.

grumswifie

Hi there
Have you tried Nigellas rocky road bars? Chocolate, rich teas, butter, syrup, marshmallows and a dusting of icing sugar when set? V easy.