Sugar Free Baking

rosie383

Forgive me if I am wrong, but I would still need to use sugar to make the sponge mixture.

zippychick

I've merged this with our sugar free baking thread

can i substitute one sugar for another - may also help

kara7758

Hello everyone. Just wondering if anyone has a recipe for sponge cake made with granulated sweetener?

Also has anyone every made buttercream with granulated sweetener?

bossymoo

I use Splenda as I find some other sweeteners can lose their sweetness on heating. Splenda is equivalent to sugar in volume but weighs a fraction of it. So I use American recipes that call for cups rather than grams. I've not made butter cream but have made cream cheese frosting with Splenda and vanilla extract which turned out well.

Try:
3 large eggs, separated
1 cup (100 grams) sifted flour
100 grams butter
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup Splenda
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 tablespoons water


Beat the whites until foamy and slowly whisk in 1/3 of the Splenda beating until fairly stiff peaks. Cream butter and rest of Splenda together.
Beat yolks separately, add rest of ingredients except flour to yolks and beat. Sift flour into yolk mixture and gently fold in egg whites until incorporated.
Bake at approx 170 (depends on your oven, mine is fan but gets hot so I use 10deg lower if I'm doing one big sponge rather than two separate to sandwich together) until risen, lightly golden and springs back at gentle touch (again, time depends on your oven and shape / size of tin. A big one in mine takes about 45min.

Happy baking!

pennypusher

We used Xylitol instead of sugar for sponge cakes. It worked very well. I also used it instead of icing sugar for buttercream but that came out quite gritty. However it was ok! I used xylitol instead of sugar a lot of the time. We bought it from a Health food shop.

Jnelhams

Honey is a good alternative to sugar, and healthier too.

notanewuser

Jnelhams wrote: »

Honey is a good alternative to sugar, and healthier too.

No it isn't!!! It's all just sugar!!!

kara7758

Thank you all and Bossymoo will try your recipe soon and let you know how I got on, thank you.

Seakay

notanewuser wrote: »

No it isn't!!! It's all just sugar!!!

Actually, honey contains vitamins and minerals, which sugar does not, it contains more calories by weight but is sweeter so less is used, and it has a lower GI than sugar and does not use up nutrients for the available energy to be accessed and absorbed by the body.

Xylitol has a very low GI number; it is derived from birch sap. You could try whizzing the granules into powder to use for icing (rather like making your own icing sugar)

Pink.

Hi Kara,

I've added your thread to our existing one on sugar free baking where you'll find more advice and recipes.

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