How to make Sugar free sweets at home, Make Nutritious, Sugar-Free Sweets for Your Kids

You Don't Want to Deprive Your Kids, but Sugar is Making Them Crazy. There's Another Way to Keep Things Sweet

1) Sugar free Jelly

Sugar Free Jelly

Ingredients
 
1 sugar free jelly
2 packs powdered gelatine

Method

Makeup the sugar free jelly with 1/2 pint water
Add 2 sachets powdered gelatine
mix well. You could even add some cream to the mix to make "creamy" sweets!

makes about 24 sweets ...I use silicone sweet moulds as the 'jellies' are easily turned out.

These are good when you just fancy that sweet 'kck'
I find they are best kept in the fridge as they stay firmer


2)  Sugar Free Fruit Cake

Try this cake made with lots of dried fruits, nuts and spices.

Sugar Free Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• 8g artificial sweetener (8 x 1g sachets)
• 80ml orange juice
• 110g dried cranberries, chopped
• 165g sultanas
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 175g walnuts, chopped
• 240g tinned pineapple, crushed
• 25g grated lemon peel
• 75g desiccated coconut
• 1 teaspoon ground mace
• 1 teaspoon ground allspice
• 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• 200g plain flour

Preparation method

Preheat oven to 170 C / Gas 3. Grease and flour a loaf tin.

Mix artificial sweetener with orange juice. Pour over chopped cranberries. Soak 1 hour, mixing often.

Mix sultanas, walnuts, coconut, grated lemon into flour until well coated. Add cranberries and orange juice mixture. Sprinkle bicarbonate of soda over mixture, and mix. Stir in the spices and pineapple. Pour mixture into a greased and floured 23cm loaf tin.

Bake for 40 minutes. Cool before eating.