Sweet treats for diabetic?

[nect4r]

My boyfriend is diabetic and I'd really like to make him some little cakes/cookies etc that wouldn't have too much of an impact on his blood sugar.

I tried to make some chocolate chip cookies using a diabetic recipe that I found, which substituted 3/4 of the sugar with Splenda. However the cookies turned out more like cakes/brownies? I was quite dissapointed!

Can anyone recommend something which is relatively easy to make? Also should I use Splenda, or will any sugar substitute do? I've heard that any of them are notoriously difficult to cook/bake with.

Thanks,

Rachel.

[jean88]

American pan cakes are nice and easy,( its quite hard to bake cakes and biscuits without real sugar). Just replace the sugar in the recipe with diabetic sugar. You could add dried or fresh fruit to it like berries, sugar free chocolate etc...have it with bit of whipped cream or diabetic ice cream. If you have a ice-cream maker you can make sugar-free ice-cream with cream, yougurt and fruit, nice treat now and again.

Here is a recipe or you can use your own:

http://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/254/American_Pancakes21726.shtml

[happy_face]

you could also try this website:

www.avidlite.co.uk

They do some nice sugar free stuff. Very trustworthy, have used myself

[ursula62]

Diabetes UK don't recommend special diabetic treats. Instead they suggest eating ordinary cakes, chocs and biccies less often.

They have some good recipes on their site anyway... http://www.diabetes.org.uk/eatwell/index.html