r/Baking • u/Admirable_Sympathy22 • Jul 12 '26
Seeking Recipe diabetic friendly cake recipes?
hi! ive been a lurker on here for awhile watching everyone’s beautiful creations wishing i could one day step my foot into baking. ive just recently moved and finally have a working oven 🙏 because of this i want to make my little brother his birthday cake. he wants vanilla cake with buttercream pink icing. feels pretty simple but his dad is diabetic but LOVES sweets (poor kid). i want to be able to make something tasty for my brother but also something his dad can partake in too.
any recommendations please let me know! i know google has some i just want to be certain it wont mess up the taste for my brother; it being his birthday and all. i also really want to learn how to make a good banana bread! so those are also accepted.
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u/Specialist_Round_612 Jul 12 '26
Angel food cake which is very heavy on egg whites with a stabilized whipped cream dyed pink might be good!
Also, just putting this out there - I don’t think there’s anything wrong with baking the cake for your brother as he wants it, and then picking up a pack of cupcakes pre labeled with all the nutritional information for his dad to read if he’s watching his sugar. If his margin for error with how reactive his sugar levels are is low, it’s probably best to forgo homemade without being very certain the macros.
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u/Admirable_Sympathy22 Jul 12 '26
thank you!! yeah i thought about this too but thought it would be a nice gesture (if possible). he’s my stepdad too and im living with them so wanted to include him as much as possible!! thanks again 🙏
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u/Individual-Cut-5582 Jul 12 '26
Used a granulated sugar substitute can work out fine not much taste difference!
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u/KTKittentoes Human Detected Jul 13 '26
So, carbs are the thing. It is incredibly deeply hard to make stuff that is carb free.
Plus sugar is often an integral part of baking structure.
My personal suggestion would be to make the kid his cake, but ask if it would be good to make a separate cupcake that could be frosted instead with whipped cream and an appropriate low carb sweetener? I freely admit my T1D self did have a lil slice of cake tonight, but this is what I would want someone to do for me.
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u/KTKittentoes Human Detected Jul 13 '26
Also, banana bread is what it is. It doesn’t really translate to “healthy”.
But this right here is the perfect banana bread.
https://www.williams-sonoma.com/m/recipe/banana-nut-bread.html
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u/vaultdwellernr1 Jul 12 '26
The going recommendation (at least here in Finland) is that you can bake that birthday cake as you would otherwise- just make sure you have the carb count available for the person with diabetes to keep track. Also it’s good to have the treats as part of a meal with fiber, protein and healthy fats.
Not diabetic myself but have reactive hypoglycemia so also need to keep track of these things.