Help with low sugar or sugar free birthday cake

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Thanks Anya. Have you used these recipes yourself? I can find lots on the web, but what I am really after is any tried and trusted recipe other members have used with success.

Try asking on our GN low carb thread. I've not tried these myself and TBH I've never found any low/no sugar cakes that are any good.

If anyone knows though it's those on the low carb thread.

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That is the old thread - current thread here
www.gransnet.com/forums/dieting_and_exercise/1228651-Low-carb-support-thread-2016-Part-2
Having said that, no I haven't really found many cakes. The pear and date brownies on this site (recipe section) are nice but my GCs turned their noses up. I think I would just go with a child-friendly cake and cut the sugar down. Chocolate is good if it is dark chocolate but not sure that would work for two-year-olds. You could certainly avoid the very sugary icings though.

Thanks Mamie

Good luck but why sugar-free? A slice of normal cake (Victoria sponge type with a dusting of icing sugar, for instance) on a birthday isn't going to do a child any harm whatsoever.

Besides which, most of the "sugar-free" recipes just substitute a different kind of sugar, such as honey or fruit juice (which is also high acid) or dried fruit (bit chewy and concentrated for kids).

Thatbags - I'm with you all the way, but it would seem you've not come up against a DiL who has been taken in by this whole "sugar free child rearing revolution/fad". I am just trying to be diplomatic and not cause yet another family row about what food is healthy and what's not. When you have a family member who thinks honey and fruit sugars are ok, but ordinary table sugar is poison it's all a little tricky!!!

Ah well, calder, as I said, Good Luck! I do find it astonishing that people don't realise honey is sugar.

Is it a first child? My own DD was a bit anti-sugar with GS1 but she had slackened off by the time GS2 came along .

Why don't you ask your DiL to find a recipe and you'll bake it?

I used to bake an apple cake many moons ago, it had stewed apple instead of sugar.

But that would depend if you like an appley taste and I can't remember the recipe but here are some:
www.yummly.uk/recipes/apple-cake-no-sugar

What - no icing ?

ps is there a health reason eg diabetes?

Otherwise - it's a birthday cake, ie for a birthday - once a year.