Celebration cake - does almod flour amd lemon curd work well together?

[biah_mum]

Tips on using the ingredients welcome. Advice on alternatives also welcome.

My Dad's 70th birthday is coming up at the end of this month. I'd like to make a diabetic friendlier cake so everyone is able to enjoy a slice. Both my parents are diabetic along with moat of my dad's brothers and sisters and my mum has little self control around sweet treats.

I'm thinking of baking a "Naked cake" using Almod flour, with a sugar substitute such as splenda with a fresh cream and lemon curd filling. I'm prepared to make my own lemon curd, and am happy to use the same sugar substitute in smaller quantities we like our lemon a little shaper.

Now I've never baked with almond flour and making curd is something I've only done a couple of times. But does Almond flour and lemon curd taste good together?

I plan on keeping it a small cake so there's no over indulging in fats.

 

[Antje77]

Tips on using the ingredients welcome. Advice on alternatives also welcome.

My Dad's 70th birthday is coming up at the end of this month. I'd like to make a diabetic friendlier cake so everyone is able to enjoy a slice. Both my parents are diabetic along with moat of my dad's brothers and sisters and my mum has little self control around sweet treats.

I'm thinking of baking a "Naked cake" using Almod flour, with a sugar substitute such as splenda with a fresh cream and lemon curd filling. I'm prepared to make my own lemon curd, and am happy to use the same sugar substitute in smaller quantities we like our lemon a little shaper.

Now I've never baked with almond flour and making curd is something I've only done a couple of times. But does Almond flour and lemon curd taste good together?

I plan on keeping it a small cake so there's no over indulging in fats.

Hi @biah_mum , welcome to the forum.

What a good idea, and what a nice thing to do for your family!

I'm not much of a baker so I can't help you here, but @lovinglife has made a low carb lemon curd for Christmas. https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/th...aps-recipes-anything-goes.198916/post-2666114

Don't worry about the fats in the cake, fats aren't a problem with diabetes. If someone made a cake I could eat without raising my blood glucose, I'd want to eat a nice big piece.

 

[lovinglife]

Tips on using the ingredients welcome. Advice on alternatives also welcome.

My Dad's 70th birthday is coming up at the end of this month. I'd like to make a diabetic friendlier cake so everyone is able to enjoy a slice. Both my parents are diabetic along with moat of my dad's brothers and sisters and my mum has little self control around sweet treats.

I'm thinking of baking a "Naked cake" using Almod flour, with a sugar substitute such as splenda with a fresh cream and lemon curd filling. I'm prepared to make my own lemon curd, and am happy to use the same sugar substitute in smaller quantities we like our lemon a little shaper.

Now I've never baked with almond flour and making curd is something I've only done a couple of times. But does Almond flour and lemon curd taste good together?

I plan on keeping it a small cake so there's no over indulging in fats.

That sounds delicious @biah_mum and I think it would work beautifully together, make sure you use a recipe that is specifically for almond flour though as it’s not a like for like replacement for ordinary flour, there’s lots of great ones on the internet, just Google low carb cake - in fact the site that I used for my lemon curd will definitely have a very good low carb cake recipe on there