Baking with Sugar Substitutes

By Jill Melton, M.S., R.D. ; Photographer: Scott Little

Sugar substitutes, sugar blends, plain old sugar -- there are so many choices for baking, what's a person with diabetes to do? We took the guesswork out of choosing a sugar substitute for baking by testing one cake recipe with five different sugar substitutes. Here's what we found.

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Baking with Sugar, Blends, and Sugar Substitutes

The Better Homes and Gardens Test Kitchen tested several recipes, including our favorite white cake recipe, with different sweeteners, including sugar and sugar blends. Our only change was to replace all of the sugar in each cake with a different sugar substitute. Using sugar as the "control," see how each sugar substitute performed.

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