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It's evident that our country is drowning in sugar. The astounding amount of sugar we drink and eat every year has gone up nearly 30 percent since 1983 and is probably a major factor to the soaring rates of overweight and obesity in this America. Sugary foods often replace more healthy foods which indirectly contributes to diseases like osteoporosis, heart disease, and cancer. These can all be influenced by what we eat.
Sugar free recipes are typically made of natural ingredients, avoiding granular sugar. Granular sugar is found in so many things and is the type of carbohydrates that people commonly try to avoid. The purpose of this site is to help you search recipes for you sugar free diet. Our recipes substitute sugar with other ingredients including fruit, agave nectar, and artificial sugar. These diabetic recipes prove that sugar free cooking can be tasty while still cutting the calories.
Living without sugar doesn't have to be difficult although it does take time to get used to avoiding the temptation. Avoid desserts from restaurants or bakeries and cook them from home instead where you can control what goes in them. There is no need to cut desserts out of your diet altogether when you can make healthier sugar free alternatives at home.
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Ingredients:
For the batter:
4 cups flour (I used bread flour)
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tbs. + 1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 tbs. ground ginger
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1/4 tsp. ground cloves
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
2 cups Agave nectar
4 large eggs
1 cup buttermilk
1½ c. canned pumpkin (not pie filling)
*See below for fosting ingredients.
Pumpkin Cupcakes
Directions
Preheat oven to 350°F. Line muffin tins with paper liners. Mix together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, spices and salt in a medium bowl. Set mixture aside.
With an electric mixer on medium to low speed, cream together the butter and Agave nectar until mixed well. Add the eggs one at a time, beating until each is incorporated. You may have to scrape down the sides of the bowl if needed. Reduce mixer speed to low. Add flour mixture, dumping in three batches while alternating with two additions of buttermilk. Continue beating until just combined. Make sure not to overbeat the mixture. Add canned pumpkin and beat until just combined.
Divide the batter evenly among lined muffin cups, filling each to about three-quarters full. Bake for about 8 minutes and then rotate the tins then bake for another 7 minutes. Transfer muffin tins to wire racks to cool for about 10 minutes then move individual cupcakes onto racks and let cool completely.
Ingredients for Frosting:
8 oz package cream cheese
2/3 c. Splenda
3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 tablespoons water
Directions
Mix all ingredients until well blended. Spread onto cooled pumpkin cupcakes. Make sure to refrigerate cupcakes if not eating them right away.
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Even if you eat healthy meals on most days of the week, it's normal to crave a sweet treat on occasion. Finding healthy, sugar free desserts can be challenging. Regardless of your reason, whether that be trying to cut calories for weight loss, eat less sugar to control your blood sugar, or enjoy a dessert without consuming any fat, there are sugar free desserts you can prepare and enjoy without the guilt.
Eating both a sugar free and fat free dessert helps you save on calories. A gram of fat contains about 9 calories and a gram of carbohydrates, including sugar, contains about 4 calories. A good example to put this into perspective is if you switch from regular vanilla ice cream to a no-sugar-added vanilla ice cream then you would consume 38 fewer calories, 3 less grams of fat, and 10 grams of sugar less. Eating little sugar can benefit your blood glucose levels, especially if you have diabetes or prediabetes.
