Sugar Free

I am fully aware of the dangers of too much sugar!  However a little now and again in a delicious piece of cake is fine.  With all the baking I’ve been doing I have found out how easy it is to get addicted to sugar!  I still want my treats though so after some research and experimenting in the kitchen.

I often bake with Xylitol which is a sugar made from the bark of a tree.  If you are using 1 cup of ordinary sugar in a cake, you can simply replace it with one cup of Xylitol.  Recently I made some super moist chocolate cake with Xylitol and used even less than the 1:1 ratio.  I noticed the difference straight away, yes it was less sweet, had the goodness of Xylitol and I noticed a richer taste of the chocolate.  Much like when you have a good cup of coffee without sugar, you taste the richness of the coffee rather than the sweetened version. 

I find using Xylitol so liberating as I can still enjoy a delicious cup of coffee and a piece of cake sitting on the patio enjoying a break from the kitchen.  Other ingredients to sweeten our treats are maple syrup, algave syrup, date syrup and I’m sure there are others, many of which can be found in good health shops and some of the larger supermarkets. 

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