If you have not caught on yet, I like cooking and baking. Especially baking. Nothing beats a warm chocolate chip cookie out of the oven, when the chips are still gooey and the fresh baked scent still lingers in the air.
That is, until, you over indulge and try to button your pants the next morning. Oh, and that sluggish feeling. Tight pants and sugar with drawl, we’ve all been there. Yes, even you, shaking your head at me, don’t deny it!
Enter Sans Sucre (or without sugar for those of you who did not take french in high school.) These Stevia plant sweetened mixes are produced by Bernard Food Industries, Inc, which is family owned and operated since 1947! Along with Sans Sucre, they offer over a thousand specialty food products, such as beverages, seasonings, soups and much more and 350 of those products are dietary in nature! The four baking mixes are was able to try are sugar-free/no sugar added. Instead, they are naturally sweetened with Stevia.
There are 240 different types of stevia plants, all of which are related to the sunflower family. The Stevia we use is also called sweet leaf and is grown purely for it’s sweetness. With it’s 300 times sweetness of process sugar and it’s negligible effect on blood glucose, it is becoming a more commonly accepted and used sugar substitute.
My mixes arrived safe and snug in their package, along with a few recipes! I allowed Sonshine to pick out two flavors to try and wouldn’t you know it, he picked out the Milk Chocolate Brownie and the Chocolate Fudge Brownie mixes. (He must be my child!) The other two mixes are Apple Cinnamon Coffee Cake and Classic Brownie Blondie (I cannot wait to try them!).
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| Chocolate Fudge Brownies |
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| Milk Chocolate Cupcakes |
On day one, I made the Chocolate Fudge Brownie mix according to the box. Do you see that picture to the right? It only has three ingredients. Three! The mix, water, and oil. So simple! I whipped these up in under five minutes. And they were so delicious! Chewy and soft with a rich chocolate flavor, they did not disappoint! Even Sonshine wolfed them down! But, like any other substitute sweetener, there was an after taste on the back of our tongues. It was not unpleasant and I was aware that it could happen, so just a heads up! (It’s like drinking a diet soda after being a “regular” soda drinker. There’s a different taste there, but it does not make the product undesirable.) We waited a few days to enjoy the last bites of our treats and I made the Milk Chocolate Brownie mix into cupcakes, via the recipes the company sent along! Again, only three ingredients! The mix, an egg and some fat free milk! After only twenty minutes cook time, these babies came out of the oven super fluffy! We all enjoyed these, even my husband, who is wary of sugar-free foods.
I’m so glad to see a line of easy to make and delicious to taste baking mixes are available. I have a nasty sweet tooth and have decided to cut back our family’s sweet intake. It’s nice to know that when I’m craving a treat or want to bake with my son, there is a product line out there keeping our health in mind! And these products are a wonderful alternative for those with diabetes or anyone trying to find an easy way to limit the amount of sugar in their lives!
Connect
To see other products and to learn about the family owned company please visit the Bernard Food Industries, Inc. website (they even have yummy products to buy!)
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To purchase these four Sans Sucre Baking Mixes visit their website Average price is $4.75
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