Make A Sugarless Cake Easily From Mix

Here’s an easy way to make a sugarless cake, with sugarless frosting. This is more information than just a recipe. I think it helps to understand what changes in a recipe when going sugarless with it. This is advice you can use to modify your own recipe or make a sugarless cake from any boxed cake mix. For mixes that make you add the sugar. It may take a few tries to get the baking technique right. You may want to try different sugar alternatives to discover which you like best for which kind of cake.

What changes when you replace sugar in a cake recipe with an alternative sweetener?

First, to replace sugar the proportion of sweetener changes. Unless you buy a sweetener that says it works on a 1 to 1 ratio with regular sugar, you may need less volume of alternative sweetener. Syrups and concentrated liquid forms will be hard to compare.

For example, Hershey’s sugar free chocolates are sweetened with maltitol syrup. Maltitol has a higher sweetness density than powered sugar, so a bit of vegetable filler is added so the size remains the same as the standard chocolate bars.

Replacing sugar with liquid sweetener

There’ a potential benefit to using liquid form. It can make the cake moist, or even juicy. The first way to try this is to use fruit juice. Stir in pear juice, white grape, apple, any citrus and the water in it moistens the end result  The same goes for honey. So if that works, you can surly use sugarless syrup and flavored syrups at a similar amount. Pure maple syrup is good also as long as there are zero added sugars, Most “maple syrup” is actually flavored corn syrup.

Fruit and berry puree

Simple natural sugars can be used sparingly to make sugar free sweets that are still safe for the KETO diet. You can use unsweetened applesauce to your regular cake mix instead of adding sugar. You can also use blueberry, strawberry or banana purees as a flavored alternative sweetener. This will also make a good, moist, sugarless cake from any basic cake mix.

Preparation

You need to make food-based sweetness separately and add to the sugarless cake mix at the point when you would add the sugar, or else it will not blend smoothly or completely. For going sugarless you need not worry about compensating the other ingredients like butter, eggs and milk. Unless you want to. The sugar sweetening is all you need to replace. For KETO you can try gluten free flour, or low-carb alternative grain or nut flour too. Then you can save some more carbs which can make room for more sweetening.

Adding a little extra spice can help make up for a lower level of sweetness. Cinnamon, saffron, vanilla, rind zest are often used flavor enhancers. This idea can help you reduce sweetener carbs enough to stay KETO friendly.

How much is needed to replace sugar to make a sugarless cake?

Some synthetic sweeteners are formulated to mix ingredient with enough inert filler that it can be used to replace sugar on a 1 cup to 1 cup basis. This is also true for brown rice malt syrup. Sucralose crystals are also 1 to 1 with sugar but have a high glucaric index, so not so good for KETO or diabetes. Most erythritol products are made to match sugar, granular xylitol too. Then there are the much more dense extracts like stevia (3tbsp to 1cp sugar) and monk fruit (3tsp to 1cup sugar) which is very dense sweetener. For food-based sweetener more is required. Honey (3/4cup to 1cup sugar) Maple Syrup (1/2cup to 1cup sugar) Molasses (3/4cup to 1cup sugar)

Fruit juice can replace up to half of the sugar in a recipe, but the rest must be there in dry, granular form either as sugar, or another substitute. Puree sweetening is also a partial replacement for 1/3 to 1/2 the sugar called for in the recipe.

Sweeteners that you should avoid

While I’m not going to spell out just why you should not consume synthetic “plastic sugars.” I have other posts for that, like this one about HFCS with more coming. For now let it suffice to list the varieties to should avoid. Don’t use saccharine, aspartame, and dextrose. Also stay away from corn syrup.

Sugarless frosting

This is easier for s KETO diet where fat is ok. You can simply add stevia or the substitute you like to butter. Or Use heavy whipping cream as a base and add sugar substitute or sugarless flavored syrup. I think ChocZero has the best sugarless, monk fruit sweetened flavor syrups made in he USA. se my promo code of Motiv8ionN8ion at checkout to save an extra 10%

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