A few years ago, back in the sugary days, I used to make a gorgeous banana and chocolate cake a Nigella Lawson recipe. May the Lord forgive me for my lack of modesty but I think the recipe I’ve come up with here is even better.  Read more

It’s an ongoing voyage of discovery making low sugar, low carb cakes. From time to time there are baking trays of disappointment when experiments don’t work out as anticipated. Equally though there are the thrills and triumphs. Take this ginger cake for example. Read more

Let me introduce you to one of my recent cake making triumphs – this cracking little vegan brownie!

Low carb, zero/low sugar cake baking is an intriguing and sometimes elusive art.  For example, finding a successful low carb replacement for wheat flour in recipes can pose as much of a challenge to the intrepid sugar free baker as learning how to achieve a healthier sweetness and flavour. Read more

Jo Dance from Joy Food Revolution shared a lovely apple cake recipe on the Still Sweet Without Sugar Facebook group recently.  It was shared as
part of a thread about baking with coconut flour.  I tried it and I’m here to testify that it definitely stands out from the apple cake crowd. Read more

I’ve wanted to get more use out of coconut flour for a long time.  It's such a great alternative to wheat flour in baking, if you want to reduce the sugars in your diet.  It’s low in carbohydrate, as well as having many health giving properties. Read more