Is It Possible To Make A Sugar-Free Cake??
Decorating By Sarsi Updated 14 Sep 2007 , 7:14pm by Botanesis
Is there anyway to make a sugar free cake. My Grandma's birthday is coming up, and she has diabetes...she can have a little sugar, but not much. Does anyone have a sugar free cake recipie, and is there any sugar free frostings?? Oh man, that sounds so rediculous!! Just thought, maybe...I hope so!!
Hi there 
Go to the recipe section, use the "drop down" box and go to diabetic cakes. Here is the Diet Coke link
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-2090-9-Diet-Soda-Cake.html
Enjoy!
Pat
Pillsbury actually makes a reduced sugar yellow and devil's food box cake mix sweetened with Splenda. I've tried both, and they're delicious, especially the yellow. The sugar content is 10 grams per serving, which the box says is 50% less than the regular Pillsbury yellow cake mix.
Good luck!
Hi! I am a mother of a Type 1 Diabetic. I just want to let everyone know that while you always think of sugar for diabetics, it's actually the carbohydrates (which break down to sugar) you have to be careful of. Making it sugar free definitely helps because typically lower sugar means lower carbs but I just wanted to throw that out there.
Here's a link to some sugar-free cakes on allrecipes http://allrecipes.com/Search/Recipes.aspx?WithTerm=sugar-free+cake&SearchIn=All . It's great because it has reviews of the cakes, so you can read them before deciding if you want to try a recipe.
I haven't tried any myself, so that's about all I'm good for 
My dad has just started having to take insulin injections. You really need to be careful of the carbs in a recipe as well as the sugar content as lauragriggs said. Go to dlife.com. You will find tons of recipes there. I found one for chocolate applesauce cupcakes. The recipe calls for sugar but I used 75% Splenda and 25% sugar. For the flour content I used 1/3 whole wheat flour, 1/3 soy flour, and 1/3 almond flour. They were really good. Even my 5 and 6 year old nieces ate them. You can also try foodnetwork.com and go to Low Carb And Lovin It.
The cake part is easy. The frosting is another story altogether. I havent found one that actually tastes like something you should put on food. 
Good Luck in Your Search
Thank you!! I need to find out about this too. My mother and brother in law are diabetics and I'd like to be able to make a cake they can eat. My sis made some cream cheese frosting today for cinnamon rolls using zylitol for the sugar. It was different but pretty good! She put it in my blender to try and make it powdery, which it kind of did, and it tasted good. I'll look for those cake mixes tomorrow. We're having a family dinner on Saturday.
Thanks again,
Carol
I found this recipe, but I'm not sure how well it tastes. There is also an icing recipe there.
http://www.cooksrecipes.com/diabetic/spring_fling_layered_white_cake_recipe.html
I got the recipe from here.. http://www.cooksrecipes.com/diabetic-recipes/diabetic_cakes.html
There seems to be a lot more cheesecake, than regular cake, most likely because of what was mentioned earlier. The high carbohydrate content in regular cakes. Maybe you can mix the recipes up a bit, and try different flours like the above poster did, and find one you like.
Good luck!! Let me know if you find a really good one. My grandmother was just recently diagnosed, and I would like to still be able to make her birthday cakes.
I hope this helps.
Holly
Okay, so let me ask this:
If the carbs are bad also, can a diabetic eat a gluten free cake mix?
Ingredients: organic rice flour, organic evaporated cane juice, organic potato starch, buttermilk solids, tapioca starch, baking powder, sea salt, xanthan gum, natural vanilla flavor.
The added ingredients would be 2 eggs, 1/2 oil and 1 cup water. Would this be considered sugarfree?
Funny you should ask that...my little boy, who is diabetic, also has Celiac disease and can't have gluten. Diabetics can have gluten free cakes but they still have carbs, in fact rice and potatoes are very high in carbs. To be honest (and to be on the safe side) I think it would be easiest if you could make them something that you could give an accurate carb count for. My son has an insulin pump and when he eats something it helps so much to know exactly how many carbs are in it. After he eats we just enter the carbs into his pump and it figures out and delivers the right amount of insulin for him. This means it's usually easiest for him to have something from a package or something easy to figure the carbs from. However, type 1's take insulin to cover food they eat and a lot of Type 2's don't so they would need to control the portion or try to reduce the carbs by as much as possible. You didn't say whether or not they have celiac and have to have gluten free but I woulnd't make a gluten free cake for anyone who didn't need it or ask for it. The ingredients are more expensive and they don't taste the same.
lauragriggs, thank you so much for that answer! I will be sending an email to the mother tomorrow to find out exactly what her daughter can and cannot eat. When she first asked for a cake, all she said was it needed to be sugarfree. Not sure what type of diabetes the daughter has.
Hi
In a rush, so haven't read through previus replies, so forgive me if I'm repeating what's already been said.
My husband's cousin has type 1 diabetes. I was very excited when I found some sugarpaste (fondant) suitable for diabetics, as it is sugar-free.
However, he explained to me that most people think "he's diabetic, therefore he can't have sugar". But it's not 'just' sugar... it's carbohydrates, and a lot of people don't realise that sugar is actually a carbohydrate.
Therefore, the flour in the cake itself can be an issue. He said that, therefore, I should make a normal cake and he'd just have a very small slice.
HTH
Suzanne x
Thank you everyone! I think I've decided to make a cake that has a small amount of sugar. One that's probably sweetened by applesauce. That will help her out, at least! She can determine how much of it she should eat. Thanks everyone for all your help! Keep using the thread, as it looks like many other people are interested in this subject!! THANK YOU!!!
Hi there, I had to do a cake for a diabetic recently and looked on the diabetic website which had some great recipes. I did the lemon one and it came out ok - it didn't rise as much as my normal ones but they said it tasted great and want me to do their christmas cake too!
As a couple of others CCers have already posted just making a cake sugar-free or reduced sugar doesn't cut it for Diabetics. As I remember, NONE of the cakes listed on CC are actually safe for a Diabetic. If they have wheat, rice, oat, rye, etc they are not Diabetic friendly. Applesauce does not make a safe alternative for sweetening a cake for a Diabetic, it will spike their blood sugar levels.
I use the almond flour pound cake from this site.
http://www.lowcarbluxury.com/lowcarb-desserts.html
It is a real Diabetic Cake recipe - it uses no sugar and no wheat flour, I use all almond meal/flour when I make it or add a little vital wheat gluten flour. It also tastes best after being refrigerated overnight. I ice it with a cream cheese icing sweetened with Splenda. BTW Splenda and chocolate don't work together, splenda makes the chocolate more bitter.
Diabetics need to count carbs. If they aren't and are using the old method of portion control they will never control their diabetes. My mother was injecting twice a day and now does not need injections at all since she started tracking carbs. She is type-2.
(slowly drags soapbox back under the table)
Typically, you are dealing with a type 2 diabetic. Things are different for type 1s (previously known as juvenile diabetes). Like I said earlier, they control their diabetes with insulin every day. They can never stop taking insulin. Type 1's eat all kinds of food. They are not told to stop eating wheat or any other food. As long as their blood sugar is within range they can eat whatever they want and cover the carbs with insulin. Some diabetics (10% is what our doctor tells us) have Celiac disease as well and those people cannot have gluten. I just wanted to make sure the different types were understood.
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