Sugar Free Pound Cake

Sugar free pound cake is a dessert that is prepared by using sugar substitutes in the place of regular sugar as otherwise mentioned in a normal pound cake recipe. An usual pound cake recipe suggets sugar, butter, flour and eggs but a sugarfree pound cake will contain slightly different ingredients to compensate for the lack of real sugar. These sugar free pound cakes are usually recommended for dieters, diabetics, and patients with serious medical conditions that contraindicate the regular use of sugar in their diet.

 

Although, there are many varieties of sugar free pound cakes, not all of them are suitable for every type of medical conditions. For example, sugar-free commercial baked products may use agave nectar, refined fructose, brown rice malt syrup and sweetened fruit juice to flavor the pound cake.

 

However, these are contraindicated in diabetics. Diabetic pound cake is usually consumed by diabetics as they are sugar-free. These desserts are ideal to prevent the blood sugar fluctuations that are dangerous to diabetics and they are made with artificial sugar substitutes like xylitol, sucralose and stevia.

 

Sugar Free Pound Cake Recipe Overview

A traditional pound cake will use a pound of butter, flour, eggs and sugar but these quantities will have to be adjusted as sugar substitutes do not bake in the same way as real sugar.

 

A range of sugar substitutes may be used and this will influence the taste of the sugar free pound cake. The most popular sugar substitutes that can be used in baking a sugar free pound cake include saccharine, aspartame, acesulfame potassium and sucralose.

 

These sweeteners have been approved for home use and they can be used in an ordinary diabetic pound cake.

 

The sugar substitutes will not brown, or retain moisture, and they tend to bake faster. Cooking times, cooking utensils and the moisture content of the cake in the form of additional milk, oil, fruit juices, or cream will have to be adjusted.            

 

Popular Sugar Free Pound Cake Recipe Variations

Readymade Sugar free pound cake mixes are available in the market. The most popular ones are from ABEL and SCHAFER, Inc, King Arthur’s Flour Company, Bernard’s Sugar Free Pound Cake Mix, and Pillsbury’s Moist Supreme Sugar Free Pound Cake mix.

 

Health and Nutrition Facts

Sugar Free Pound Cakes are usually prepared with acesulfame potassium, sucralose, and stevia. Acesulfame potassium and sucralose have been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for home use but Stevia is still under research.

 

Diabetic Pound Cake Trivia

Aspartame is not used in baking sugar free pound cake dishes as it is heat sensitive and breaks down during the baking process.