Monday, December 3, 2012

Diabetic and Regular Cookies

Yesterday I made peanut brittle for my Christmas baskets but I also wanted to make cookies. Since most of my family is diabetic I didn't want to load their baskets up with too many sweets so I bought a bag sucralose no calorie sweetener to make one of the batches of cookies with. It is not something I would want to eat but it is a necessity for them and most of them aren't real good about taking care of their health so every little bit helps.
The sucralose was easy to use, you just replaced the sugar with sucralose. For the brown sugar you used the same amount plus a tablespoon of molasses.
What surprised me was the difference in the cookies. The sucralos cookies have a whole different look from the cookies with regular sugar. Sucralose cookie on the left, regular cookie on the right.
 They both taste good but I have to say I did prefer the taste of the regular cookie myself even if it didn't look quite as nice.


6 comments:

  1. I'm surprised I thought the texture of the sugar would be different. If I had to guess which is which, I'd have picked wrong!

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    1. I agree, I actually liked how the diabetic ones came out better but they just don't taste as sweet to me.

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  2. I am diabetic and I am finding that the less sugar I eat the less I need. Great idea to do that for your diabetic friends.

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  3. i am a diabetic and getting used to controlling my blood sugar has had its ups and its downs. i never had a sweet tooth so i would be quite happy and healthy eating just one regular cookie so i forgoe the sweets that are "sugar free"...it is the rice, pasta, and potatoes that are my diet killers and the things that i do crave the most.

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    1. Oh I know if I was diabetic that would be my problem too because almost all my meals deal with either pasta, potatoes or rice.

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