Keep me from my sugar coma!

October 30, 2006 11:47 AM

Who has some great tasting, SUGAR FREE, dessert ideas? There's a little bit

Have to make a sugar free dessert for an office fall lunch tomorrow and was looking for some good ideas.....Thanks hivers!

posted by keep it tight to Food & Drink (12 answers total)

Sugar free key lime pie (using Equal) is actually pretty darn good. Here's a recipe.
posted by ontic at 11:59 AM on October 30, 2006

Can you elaborate--Sugar free means ?. No additional sugar, no simple carbs, completely carb free, artificial sweetener OK?
posted by rmhsinc at 12:05 PM on October 30, 2006

If you just mean you don't want to add refined sugar, how about fruit salad?
posted by The corpse in the library at 12:17 PM on October 30, 2006

You could make an Eton Mess - the recipe has strawberries, but you could use all manner of seasonal berries, and leave out the suggested sugar - with sugar-free meringues (scroll down the page a bit).

It's basically the easiest dessert in the world to make, but incredibly tasty.
posted by jack_mo at 12:25 PM on October 30, 2006 [1 favorite]

All manner of Splenda goodness. Splenda is the sweetener of choice here as it is heat stable, lending itself to baking.
posted by caddis at 12:30 PM on October 30, 2006

My mum makes delicious pumpkin pies, replacing the sugar with natural (liquid) honey (leave out some of the milk, too). It's absolutely heavenly. I don't know if honey is too "sugar-y" for you.
posted by muddgirl at 12:35 PM on October 30, 2006

There are many, many good low-carb cheesecake recipes out there (of every complexity, so you can pick based on your time and skills), and if the carbs aren't the issue you can always make a real crust.
posted by Lyn Never at 12:37 PM on October 30, 2006

use vegitable glycerine instead of sugar
posted by koahiatamadl at 12:38 PM on October 30, 2006

Bread and Butter Pudding. A lot of recipes are without sugar, and those that do require very little. I've made it many times with Splenda.
posted by cholly at 12:52 PM on October 30, 2006

What sweeteners do you have in your arsenal? If you have advanced chemistry like polydextrose and erythritol you can do a lot more than you can with just Splenda.
posted by bink at 2:07 PM on October 30, 2006

Cheese plate?
posted by oxford blue at 2:48 PM on October 30, 2006

I don't care much for sugar-free stuff, but my wife makes a killer sugar-free chocolate mousse... I believe it's made with Splenda. I don't have the recipe around but I'm sure it's on the Internet and it vouches for one good non-sugar option.
posted by chef_boyardee at 9:02 AM on October 31, 2006