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Desserts Diabetic Friendly Other Substitutes

Low Sugar Brown Sugar and Sugar Free Substitutes for Confectioners Sugar & Sweetened Condensed Milk

This holiday season don’t feel that you can’t enjoy favorite recipes for long standing family dessert traditions due to diabetes.   Moderation is key in all things, but you can easily do a make over on that sugary, rich recipe in order to create an enjoyable sugar free version —  that allows you to have more than just the tiniest of tastes!

They can be made sugar free — even buttercream frostings — using the two substitutes below  —  and by substituting granulated sugar with granulated sucralose (Splenda) in any recipes that are cooked or baked.  It is also now available in more affordable generic and store brand names.

If not cooked or baked, you can substitute other sugar substitutes for granulated sugar, but sucralose is currently the only “zero calorie” substitute safe for baking or cooking.

Otherwise,  use “low calorie” substitutes — some but not all are safe for cooking — so choose wisely.

 

75 Percent Less Sugar “Brown Sugar Blend”  

You can substitute brown sugar with a much lower sugar version by blending 3/4 cups of sucralose with 1/4 cup of dark brown sugar!   This can then be used as the equivalent of 1 cup brown sugar.

You now have a 75 percent lower in sugar brown sugar blend!  The recipe may turn out somewhat lighter in color, but it will still have just enough of that brown sugar taste! 

 

Many of the best rich holiday desserts call for confectioners (powdered) sugar and/or sweetened condensed milk.

Many substitutes and alternatives recommended to replace them just do not result in a good texture — or do not work at all — in some recipes.

Frostings, glazes, and icings without powdered confectioners sugar are often grainy, runny, or gelatinous depending upon the substitute used.  Other items end up too soupy, soggy, and just won’t thicken appropriately without sweetened condensed milk.

 

However, the following two sugar free substitute recipes can be used in place of the original ingredients — with the same excellent results!

 

Sugar Free Confectioners Sugar 

1 cup granulated sucralose/Splenda (or other sugar substitute that measures cup for cup — IF not being heated or cooked)
1 cup cornstarch
1 cup powdered milk

yields 1 3/4 cup sugar free powdered sugar

Blend or food process to powdered sugar consistency and store in airtight container

Sugar Free Condensed Milk

Equivalent to 12 to 14 ounce can of condensed milk — although actual total quantity may vary slightly.

1 can evaporated milk
1-1/2 cups granulated sucralose/Splenda
1 Tbsp cornstarch

Heat 1 can evaporated milk and granulated sucralose in a saucepan over medium heat just until warm and whisk in 1 Tbsp cornstarch. Reduce heat and simmer stirring constantly until smooth and thickened. Cool completely and use right away.

Do not use any other “zero calorie” sugar substitute in recipes that require any heat, cooking, or baking.    At present, only granulated sucralose is safe for use when being heated or cooked.

Otherwise, carefully choose an “approved for cooking and baking” version of one of the “low calorie” sugar substitutes.  Some “low calorie” substitutes are approved and deemed safe for cooking (up to a certain temperature) — and some are not — so do your research and choose wisely.

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I live in Idaho but I am a southerner and moved here for career reasons in 2000. However, I am now a retired widow and have lots of time to focus on what makes me happiest -- cooking, sharing recipes, as well as teaching and sharing with others what I know about cooking and nutrition.

I don't claim to know everything there is to know about cooking and I'm not a chef, although I do know a few and helped them out from time to time and my late husband was a trained cook and baker as well as a master at smoking meats and making BBQ, and I have studied nutrition at two colleges and one university along with other degrees. I like cooking from scratch and recipes made with prepackaged items are the exception rather than the norm.

However, being disabled, I have good days and bad days so I do use what I call "cheats" on occasion. For the most part though I've learned to pace myself and with a little preplanning I manage to do the prep one day and the cooking the next so the cheats still don't happen very often.

I have an enormous collection of recipes dating from the 1700s to the present (hence, vintage to modern). Because of my late husband's health issues I also have many diabetic and heart healthy recipes or my recipes often include substitutions along with the regular ingredients.

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