vicki.milne
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Have you seen how much almond flour costs?
I nearly bought some once but at a fiver for a tiny little bag I just couldn't bring myself to pay it.
I'll be interested to see any recipes that anyone can come up with.
Hi all,
My 10 year old son was diagnosed Type 1 just over a week ago and he feels like he's missing out on loads already so I'd like to bake him a cake.
I've been searching on-line and it's taking an age to search through all of the stuff out there.
Does anyone know of any chocolate sponge / Victoria sponge cake recipes which I can cook for him?
Ideally I'd prefer one with almond flour (as I believe it's fairly low carb) and also sweeteners as opposed to sugar (Splenda? - never cooked with sweeteners before but assume it works) AND a recipe which provides nutritional info (as I'm just attempting to get to grips with carb-counting).
Hope I'm not asking for too much!
Many thanks in advance,
Vicki
I use ground almonds all the time for baking for both sweet and savoury stuff - I've never had any problem with it. Like @Avocado Sevenfold I treat it just like almond flour. I also grind up hazelnuts to make chocolate cupcake/muffins and I prefer the hazelnuts to almonds for these. It's coconut flour that completely defeats me...Ground almonds isn't the same. I tried to cheat and use that instead of almond flour for low carb pancakes. It turned into a slushy foul tasting mess.
Ground almonds are only £1.30 in Aldi.
I found a lovely looking low carb chocolate brownie recipe the the other day. I'll see if I can find it
Aldi also do 87% dark chocolate 5 25g bars for £1.29
There is no reason for him to miss out on anything. If you calculate the carbs in the cake you can work out how much to increase the insulin by to cover it. makes a child very good at maths as we used to tell our parents to give a 32th of the cake etc. It is a question of balance and having those foods at the right time.Hi all,
My 10 year old son was diagnosed Type 1 just over a week ago and he feels like he's missing out on loads already so I'd like to bake him a cake.
I've been searching on-line and it's taking an age to search through all of the stuff out there.
Does anyone know of any chocolate sponge / Victoria sponge cake recipes which I can cook for him?
Ideally I'd prefer one with almond flour (as I believe it's fairly low carb) and also sweeteners as opposed to sugar (Splenda? - never cooked with sweeteners before but assume it works) AND a recipe which provides nutritional info (as I'm just attempting to get to grips with carb-counting).
Hope I'm not asking for too much!
Many thanks in advance,
Vicki
There is no reason for him to miss out on anything. If you calculate the carbs in the cake you can work out how much to increase the insulin by to cover it. makes a child very good at maths as we used to tell our parents to give a 32th of the cake etc. It is a question of balance and having those foods at the right time.
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