Showing posts with label stevia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stevia. Show all posts

Tuesday, 28 August 2012

Low calorie baking experiments

So, i'm trying to lose weight at the moment but have a big baking addiction, which really isn't helping. So this weekend I experimented with a few low calorie recipes....which weren't a huge success.

Experiment 1: The sugar free chocolate bundt cake
As you can see from the picture below, I tried a chunk of this...but that was it.  I replaced the sugar in the recipe with a Stevia powder.

Not recommended. Horrible bitter taste, cake didn't rise properly and left a funny after taste in my mouth

 
Think i need to spend some more time experimenting with these sugar replacements in baking to make sure the quantities i'm using are correct.

 
Experiment 2: Rosemary Conley Chocolate brownie recipe
 
This was a recipe i'd pulled from a magazine a while ago and decided now was the time to try it. This one wasn't such a failure - it looked like chocolate brownie and when kept in the fridge for a few hours it tasted like a brownie. It just had an unusual sticky consistency. You'd definitely have figured it was low calorie. (sorry for really bad picture - it actually looked pretty good in real life)
 

 
I don't think i'll be trying either of these again unfortunately.
 
So, please help me find some more alternative low calorie recipes!