I just got a request for a sugar free cake. Does anyone have any ideas??? And what on earth would you frost it with? Its for a diabetic.

There is a diabetic icing recipe on this site:


http://cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-1980-Diabetic-Icing.html

I just made two sugar free cakes this past week for a diabetic man.

For the cake you can use any recipe you have and just replace the sugar with splenda and add an extra 1/2 tsp baking soda for every cup splenda.

This is the recipe I used and it was awesome!

(Diabetic) Chocolate Cake

3 oz. dark chocolate (sugar free for diabetic)

1 ½ C hot brewed coffee
3 C sugar (Splenda for diabetic)
2 ½ C all-purpose flour
1 ½ C cocoa powder
2 tsp. baking soda (add 1 tsp. for diabetic)
¾ tsp baking powder
1 ¼ tsp salt
3 eggs
¾ C vegetable oil
1 ½ C buttermilk
2 tsp vanilla

Preheat oven to 300° Grease and flour pans. Line with parchment paper.

Finely chop chocolate and in a bowl combine with hot coffee. Let mixture stand, stirring occasionally, until chocolate is melted and mixture is smooth.

Into a large bowl sift together sugar(Splenda), flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. In another large bowl with an electric mixer beat eggs until thickened slightly and lemon colored ( about 3 minutes with a standing mixer or 5 minutes with a hand held mixer). Slowly add oil, buttermilk, vanilla, and melted chocolate mixture to eggs, beating until combined well. Add sugar mixture and beat on medium speed until just combined well. Divide batter between pans and bake in middle of oven until a tester inserted in center comes out clean, 1 hour to 1 hour and 10 minutes.

Cool layers completely in pans on racks. Run a thin knife around edges of pans and invert layers onto racks. Carefully remove parchment paper and cool layers completely.

For the icing you can either use whipped cream made with splenda insteda of sugar or you can use the diabetic icing on this site. The diabetic icing from this site is so good. I adapted it to make it chocolate by using a SF chocolate pudding instead of vanilla and adding 1/4 C unsweetened cocoa.

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-1980-4-Diabetic-Icing.html

I also have a recipe for a SF mousse. You take 1 C milk, 1 pint whipping cream and a pudding mix and mix them until stiff. It is really yummy. You can use whatever flavor pudding you want for variation.

Do a Google search for diabetic cake recipes - you'll have to make it from scratch, but there are plenty out there to choose from. Alternatively a low GI/GL cake recipe would also be a good choice for a diabetic. The icing recipes given by aliciaL_77 seems to be a good one!

Thanks!!!!

I see that you are in New Jersey, so I don't know if you have Kroger grocery stores there or not, but they carry a diabetic cake mix. It is on the "diet" aisle with all the sugar free candies, sodas, etc. And, I have used the diabetic icing on this site for regular cakes because it is so good and I have had requests from my family for it! Yum Yum!