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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:
2 1/2 C. flour
1 tsp. salt
1 3/4 C. Agave Nectar
1 C. unsalted butter, softened
2 eggs
1 tbs. cocoa powder
1 1/2 tbsp. liquid red food coloring
1 C. buttermilk
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 tbs. cider vinegar
Red Velvet Cake
Directions
Preheat oven to 350°F. Greast and lightly flour 2 or 3 cake pans, about 9 inches but you can use your judgement based on what size of cake you want. I actually used 2 9" springform pans.
Sift the flour and salt together in a medium bowl and set aside. Next beat together the Agave Nectar and butter until well mixed. You can use a stand mixer but I found a hand mixer to be sufficient. Add the eggs, 1 at a time and then beating each time you add one. Add the flour and salt to the mixture but in small amounts at a time and then alternate with the buttermilk, mixing the batter each time you add one or the other. I recommend starting with the flour then ending with the flour. When those are well mixed, mix in the vanilla. Set the red velvet cake mixture aside.
Using a small bowl, mix the red food coloring and cocoa powder until a paste is formed. Make sure to mix so that there are no cocoa chunks. Add this to the batter mixture and beat until well blended. Next use another small bowl and sir the cider vinegar and baking soda together. Caution: Be prepared for this to foam. Mix well and then quickly add to the cake batter and mix on high until well blended.
Spoon the cake batter into the pans and make sure you level them off. If you choose to do more than 2 layers then you may want to double the recipe. Bake for about 25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. You can also press on the center of the cake and it should spring back which is an indication it's done. Place on a wire rack to cool. Springform pans make it very easy to get these red velvet layers out!
Ingredients for Cream Cheese Frosting:
16 oz of cream cheese, softened
1 C. unsalted butter, softened
2 tsp vanilla extract
1-2 C. Agave Nectar (depending on how sweet you like it)
Directions
In a large bowl mix the cream cheese, vanilla, and butter together until they are well mixed and smooth in texture. Gradually add the Agave Nectar and beat until the cream cheese frosting is well mixed. With the Agave Nectar you shouldn't have to add milk but if it's too thick you can add a little. Spread onto the cake layers when they are cooled.
** After looking for sugar free recipes for Valentines Day I decided this would this would be appropriate. Enjoy!
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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.
