Chocolate For Diabetes Why Not

By sugar substitute chocolate could be consumption for diabetic sufferer, such as the yummy two recipes below.


Chocolate Cake

Ingredients:

• 1/4 c. sifted all purpose flour
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 3 tbsp. cocoa
• 1/4 c. cold coffee
• 1 tbsp. sugar substitute
• 1 egg
• 1 tbsp. salad oil
• 1/4 c. cold water
• 1 tsp. vanilla

Sift flour, baking powder, soda, and salt together. Blend cocoa and coffee. Beat egg and all sugar substitute, water, salad oil, and vanilla and stir into dry ingredients, mixing only until smooth. Stir in cocoa and coffee mixture. Line one 8 inch round layer cake pan with wax paper and grease with 1/8 teaspoon butter. Pour batter into pan, cover pan with foil and place in shallow pan of water. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes. Remove from pan onto cake rack and cool. Cut layer in half crosswise to make half of a two layer cake.

One serving = 1 fruit and 1 fat exchange.


Chocolate Sauce

Ingredients:

• 1 tbsp. butter
• 2 tbsp. cocoa
• 1 tbsp. cornstarch
• 1 c. skim milk
• 2 tsp. sugar substitute
• 1/8 tsp. salt

Melt butter and combine cocoa, cornstarch and salt; blend with melted butter until smooth. Add milk and sugar substitute and cook over moderate heat, stirring constantly until slightly thickened, remove from heat. Stir in vanilla and then set pan in ice water. Stir until completely cold. Sauce thickens as it cools.