Diabetic recipe

[Rose]

Dear all - I wonder if anyone can help me... I want to bake a cake or some biscuits for my neighbours mother, but she is diabetic.  I've been searching the internet and found lots but they dont really seem that different from 'normal' recipes... and I dont want to get this wrong for obvious reasons so...

Are there any diabetics out there who can share with me a favourite recipe? 

Also, I've seem a few that ask for almond flour... is this ground almonds or something different?

any help very welcome xx

[goose]

If I need a recipe I usually check out the website www.diabetes.org.uk/ they have loads of recipes suitable for diabetics.

[cooperlola]

I know this is probably a really dumb response but why not use Candarel (or similar) in powder form and make what you normally would?  The couple of diabetics whom I know use this in tea and coffee so why wouldn't it work for baking?

[Graham & Brenda]

Best to find out what she normally eats. Like me, she may be happy to just have a small portion of a "normal" cake - provided it isn't particularly sugary of course. Also, if her diabetes is controlled with insulin rather than diet, she may be happy to just take a couple of extra units.

[Rose]

Thanks for the replies folks [kiss]

I had searched google and found

a recipes but was getting myself a tad worried as when I've baked before she's

said she doesn't eat pastry... so I wondered if flour or butter was an issue? 

Coops... I've got a sugar substitute and I think I should just calm down

and follow one the the recipes.  I  bake a lot for my neighbour as she loves

British cakes... they both visit on a Sunday afternoon for tea and cake... I've

made a Christmas cake for them but wanted to add something just for

mum.

G&B - yes she does use insulin and I've seen her do a blood test

before a meal before?

thanks again for the advise [:$]

[Cat]

As she uses insulin she can, as suggested, take enough extra units to cover the carbohydrates in the cake.  If she tests before a meal it sounds like she knows how to adjust her insulin dose to adapt to what she will be eating.

Carbohydrate (including sugar) and high fat dishes eaten together can be a bit tricky for diabetics, which may be why she doesn't eat pastry.  Sugar substitutes are fine, although I never use them.  I just have a smaller portion of whatever everyone else is having, and take a little more insulin.

[just john]

We use a Diabetic cookbook in a vain attempt at a controlled diet, nonetheless it seeks to avoid flour and sugar especially, they have a different recipe for Chocolate cake;

300g dark chocolate (Lidl 81%),
150g low fat spread
3 beaten eggs
200g stoned prunes, quartered
150g of gram (chickpea or besan) flour with a couple teaspoons baking flour
120g soya milk

Melt chocolate over a pan of hot water
Mix the spread and prunes in a food processor until light and fluffy,
in a mixing bowl, fold the chocolate in alternately with the eggs and flour.
Beat in the soya milk,
Bake for around 25mins at 180c