Thursday, June 29, 2017

Yummy Cake




Daughter L made this beautiful diabetic friendly cake to celebrate both my birthday and Father's Day this year. My birthday is always pretty close to Father's Day. Here is the recipe, she might have made a few changes here and there. She said the icing was made with cool whip and cream cheese along with a few spoons of coconut milk, yum.

16 comments:

Valerie-Jael said...

The cake looks wonderful! I am sure you enjoyed it for your birthday, hope it was a good one. Hugs, Valerie

Lowcarb team member said...

Hello Christine ... this cake looks delicious, and you can't beat fresh lower carb fruits like blueberries, raspberries and strawberries.

I was quite surprised to see from the original 'diabetic friendly' recipe that per serving is 30g carbs!
Wow, that is high ... and so many 'diabetic friendly' recipes do often have a high-ish carb count for many of their recipes ... it really can be quite confusing!

I appreciate that we each have to decide what foods we want and like to eat, but if my husband Eddie a type 2 diabetic ate a slice of that cake his blood sugar readings would go way high.

We have found that meal plans for the whole day with carb count no more than 50 works well for him, and me. I am not diabetic but my family has a history of Alzheimer's, and from research we have done, eating a diet with less sugar and carbs may offer some protection against this ... I say may!

The type of low carb cake with fresh lower carbs fruit we like is this one
http://thelowcarbdiabetic.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/summer-fruits-lowcarb-sponge-cake-one.html

If you, and your readers, need more details about low carbing this article may be useful
http://thelowcarbdiabetic.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/introduction-to-low-carb-for-beginners.html

The cake your daughter made in the picture does look very nice, and I can see why you said Yum!

Enjoy your Thursday

All the best Jan

Mark said...

That does look delicious. It's even better because it's diabetic friendly. Happy belated birthday Christine!

Kathy G said...

Happy Belated Birthday and Father's Day! The cake looks yummy and is so nicely decorated.

JFM said...

Happy Belated Birthday Christine 🎂 🎶
That cake looks so tasty that it is worth having birthdays 💐

Christine said...

Thanks for the useful advice Jan I will pass on to L for next time she is choosing a 'diabetic friendly' recipe

ann @ studiohyde said...

Happy Belated Birthday to you...and your cake looks amazing. In fact, I'm sure I put on a couple of pounds just looking at it!

Anonymous said...

If that tastes as good as it looks, indeed YUM! Happy belated birthday!

Sue (this n that) said...

What a lovely thought and effort by your daughter to find a suitable cake for you. Lovely decoration too. Lots of joy for you all :D)

DeniseinVA said...

A belated happy birthday Christine, a bit late I know but what a delicious looking cake. Thank you for the link. I am going to check it out right now.

Adam said...

looks delicious

Icy BC said...

So yummy!

Lowcarb team member said...

Cheers Christine ...
My belated Happy Birthday Wishes to you.

All the best Jan

Lisabella Russo said...

Oh that looks so delicious! Happy belated birthday.

stefanie stark said...

Oh this looks delicious and thank you for the recipe link :)

Kay said...

Oh my! So perfect for me. Tell L I would love for her to come here and make it for me.