i just baked a yummy devil's food cake......with sugar free mix and frosting!!!
It is called Pillsbury Moist Supreme Sugar Free cake mix and sugar free frosting. I like the cake w/o the frosting and it tastes the same except the added sugar! You still have to count the carbs tho. Any other cake mixes that i should try?
I've tried that one too and I LOVED it! I couldn't believe it was sugar-free! Even my boyfriend liked it, and he usually hates all the sugar free stuff I eat. That's really the only one I know of that doesn't majorly effect your blood sugar. I used to eat the Pillsbury Reduced Sugar cake and frosting, but it still had WAY too much sugar even though it was "reduced." We just have to be so careful about desserts :(
Ladies, what is the sweetener in the mix? Is it Splenda, or something else? It is a bread and the only bread I ever eat is low carb oatmeal bread, 8 carbs per slice. There is a local bakery here that sells pound cakes in vanilla, lemon and chocolate flavors. It really spikes me so I do not eat them. Sugar free ice cream in half cup servings and fruit are my only desserts.
The sweetener in it is Splenda. It does have a quite a bit of carbs in though (29 g per serving). The cake really is good and doesn't have a sugar free taste to it. I love sugar free ice cream though because it doesn't affect my blood sugars as much...
the carbs in that isn't bad. a lot of times it's 30 or 45 per slice. I want some! :)
Wow, A low carb cake sounds good. Will try it. Have you come across any alternative products to sugar ? Are their any you like besides equal and splenda ?
Thanks, Claudette
I always just seem to stick with Splenda...I think it tastes really good and I've never really tried anything else. Here's a recipe that another diabetic I work with gave me, and it's really easy and delicious:
9 cups Chex Cereal
1 cup Hershey's sugar free chocolate chips
1/2 cup reduced fat peanut butter
1/4 cup butter
1/4 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar (Splenda!)
Put cereal in a large bowl. Melt chocolate chips, peanut butter, and butter together. Remove from heat then stir in vanilla. Pour chocolate mixture over cereal and stir. Put coated cereal into a large bag with the powdered sugar. Shake well to coat. Spread mixture evenly on wax paper and allow to cool. Enjoy!
that sounds seriously delicious! Looks like a cup of that has about... 40 carbs?
I'm a serious snacker, normally I get down on popcorn in olive oil (trader joes...), cheese sticks, hard boiled eggs, or almonds. But every now and then I want something sweet:)
(And by ever now and then I mean ALL THE TIME:)
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I always just seem to stick with Splenda...I think it tastes really good and I've never really tried anything else. Here's a recipe that another diabetic I work with gave me, and it's really easy and delicious:
9 cups Chex Cereal
1 cup Hershey's sugar free chocolate chips
1/2 cup reduced fat peanut butter
1/4 cup butter
1/4 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar (Splenda!)
Put cereal in a large bowl. Melt chocolate chips, peanut butter, and butter together. Remove from heat then stir in vanilla. Pour chocolate mixture over cereal and stir. Put coated cereal into a large bag with the powdered sugar. Shake well to coat. Spread mixture evenly on wax paper and allow to cool. Enjoy!
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We made cupcakes out of this for our daughters birthday they were great. The white one's we made for my other daughters birthday and they were really dry. Both Pillsbury, but over all pretty good.
I agree the Pillsbury Supreme Moist Devil's Food is a very tasty sugar-free (though a good amount of sugar alcohols) option. It has not yet affected my blood sugars dramatically in the two times I've had it.
Pillsbury also has a Sugar-Free Brownie Mix with Splenda, which I think tastes equally as good as their normal line of brownies.
@ John:
ME TOO!! I'm not too tempted by salty snacks....I'm way more tempted by something sweet. That's probably about right on the carb count.....This recipe makes alot of servings, and it takes days and days for me to eat it all since no one else I live with wants it since they can have "real desserts"... :)
We use the sugar free cake mix, but not the sugar free icing. Too much sugar alcohol. We use our own icing. Cool whip with some sugar free, fat free vanilla pudding mix. It's awesome. Must try.