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bonkers82

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
My daughter has recently got into baking and is desperately wanting to make me a cake, victoria sponge style to begin with. Any recipes i could get her to use? Flour? I could replace sugar with asperatame already in the cupboards Cream? Thanks
 
have a look on the recipies thread in the food and nutrition forum there are several options there. In general you can replace flour with ground almond or coconut flour and sugar with sweetener (I use Stevia). With replacement I find I am better off using volume measure rather than weight, I tend to use American cup measures now. You might also find that the mixture has to be a bit wetter than normal due to the lack of gluten. Its a bit trial and error to get it right or use a recipy that someone else has posted. Icing is the big problem I find but we can still have cake, it just take a bit more effort.
 
Thanks ruth, i would allow her to bake a 'victoria sponge', not a lover of icing anyway its just too sweet for me even before diabetes!! Would i get the coconut flour in tesco/asda? Re sweetner i would use asparatme (nit how its spelt lol)
 
Have a look at the low carb recipe forum.
There are some great ideas and what to use instead of flour.
 
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