Three Sweets for Low Carb and Diabetic Diets

Sweets can be some of the most difficult items to fit into a low carb or diabetic diet. Many recipes simply don't taste particularly good when made with sugar substitutes. Low carb dieters often fall of the wagon because of a lack of sweets in their daily plan, and many diabetics simply do without, having not been able to find a taste in low carb or diabetic sweets that truly satisfies.

But there are some easy-to-make low carb or diabetic sweets that taste great and can be put together quickly and effortlessly.

Low Carb or Diabetic Mocha. For an 8-ounce drink, use ½ teaspoon of cocoa and one packet of sweetener (Sweet-n-low seems to work best). Pour a small amount of hot espresso into the cup, and stir until smooth. Add the remaining desired espresso, fill with milk, and microwave to the desired temperature. You can create an iced mocha the same basic way. Fill a glass about ¾ of the way with ice. Make the hot mocha and then pour over the ice. Drink with a straw. Either way, add more or less sweetener if you like.

The only carbs in the mocha are those in the milk.

Low Carb or Diabetic Cream Cheese Pudding. Cream together 2 8-ounce packages of cream cheese with 1/3 cup sweetener (Splenda seems to work best in this recipe). Use more or less sweetener to taste. Add 1 tbsp milk and ½ tsp vanilla. Whip until smooth. Divide into separate pudding cups or keep in a covered bowl. Refrigerate.

There should be 3 grams of carbs or less in this entire batch.

Low Carb or Diabetic Ice Cream Cake. For this recipe, you need sugar-free ice cream sandwiches, sugar-free Oreos, sugar-free hot fudge topping, and whipped cream. Crumble the Oreos and mix with the hot fudge. Spread the mixture on top of the sandwiches. Place another sandwich on top. You can repeat the process if you want a taller cake. When you are finished, ice the cake with the whipped topping. Refrigerate for at least 3 hours. You can vary amounts here according to how much cookie you want between layers, how many layers, how much "icing," how sweet, and so on.

The ice cream sandwiches should have about 25 carbs each. The hot fudge can vary from zero-12 per tbsp. Whipped topping about 1 gram per tbsp. And the Oreos have 2 ½ grams each. By checking labels and being careful about amounts used, this great ice cream cake can end up only having about 30 carbs in a pretty hefty slice.

If you are diabetic or otherwise on a low carb diet, you can find sweets that are easy to make, inexpensive, and taste good. These are three examples of sweets that will please everyone in your family and help keep you on your diet, diabetic or not.