Diabetic Treats:
What is it about diabetic cooking that makes it seem tasteless, bland or really difficult to get right.
I was a partisier chef for a while in the UK and baking was an everyday occurrence to me. You had to cater sometimes for up to 500 people baking different things to perfection but for the life of me I cannot seem to find a good recipe for diabetic treats. Mothers day was a blast, we had a nice barbeque, braai, barby (what ever you call it) and since that special lady in my life is diabetic but loves her treats, I decided to find a recipe on the net and to make her a nice sugar free citrus cake. I followed the recipe step by step using exact measures but what came out was a disaster. Instead of treating her it looked like I wanted to kill her with a 5kg home made brick. Needless to say this went down with a laugh and I now use it as a citrus smelling doorstop but the point is no matter how hard you try you can never seem to get that diabetic treat just right.
Huletts came out with a brilliant product called Sugalite which is a sugar replacement. I have seen it in liquid and granular powder forms and you are supposed to be able to use it in baking and all other cooking methods but it still does not do what I would like it to do.
Maybe it's just me or the recipes I'm finding are completely s*^%@ but I just can't seem to get it right. If anyone out there has recipes, please don't be scared to pass it on to a desperate cooker.
The world would be a better place without illnesses but at least let us try to make things easier for those that suffer from them.
I was a partisier chef for a while in the UK and baking was an everyday occurrence to me. You had to cater sometimes for up to 500 people baking different things to perfection but for the life of me I cannot seem to find a good recipe for diabetic treats. Mothers day was a blast, we had a nice barbeque, braai, barby (what ever you call it) and since that special lady in my life is diabetic but loves her treats, I decided to find a recipe on the net and to make her a nice sugar free citrus cake. I followed the recipe step by step using exact measures but what came out was a disaster. Instead of treating her it looked like I wanted to kill her with a 5kg home made brick. Needless to say this went down with a laugh and I now use it as a citrus smelling doorstop but the point is no matter how hard you try you can never seem to get that diabetic treat just right.
Huletts came out with a brilliant product called Sugalite which is a sugar replacement. I have seen it in liquid and granular powder forms and you are supposed to be able to use it in baking and all other cooking methods but it still does not do what I would like it to do.
Maybe it's just me or the recipes I'm finding are completely s*^%@ but I just can't seem to get it right. If anyone out there has recipes, please don't be scared to pass it on to a desperate cooker.
The world would be a better place without illnesses but at least let us try to make things easier for those that suffer from them.
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