Store-Bought, Reduced-Sugar Cake Mixes and Frosting!
Here’s a heads-up…
1. Pillsbury’s reduced-sugar cake mix
I was just in my local supermarket and noticed that Pillsbury has both a yellow and chocolate cake mix with half the sugar of their regular cake mixes! The cake mixes contain Splenda.
2. Sugar-Free frosting recipe
AllRecipes.com has a sugar-free frosting recipe that contains cream cheese and a box of sugar-free pudding as the sweetener. I haven’t tried the recipe yet, but it has received excellent ratings! Here’s the link: Sugar-Free Frosting
Serve with sugar-free ice cream and enjoy. 
August 23rd, 2007 at 3:54 pm
I took a look at this cake mix last night in an effort to make a low-carb cake for my girlfriend who is a Type 1 diabetic. After looking at the stats on the side of the box, it is only 1 less carb than the regular cake mix. Not sure if that really helps much, because as I understand it, in the world of diabetes - a carb is a carb is a carb.
August 27th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
Kris, you’re right; the sugar has been reduced, but the total carbs have only been slightly lessened. Unfortunately, most of the ingredients contained in traditional cakes contain carbs. You can find low-carb cake mixes for sale online by doing a Google search. I have not tried any of these personally so cannot attest to the taste. These mixes are generally gluten-free, wheat-free, with no sugar added.
If you’re concerned about carbs, it’s best to make your cakes from scratch, where you can better control the carbs by selecting flours that will be absorbed into the bloodstream more slowly and by deciding how much or little refined sugar you wish your recipes to contain. You can also decide to make cakes that do not traditionally contain a lot of flour such as cheesecakes, flourless chocolate cakes, almond cakes and meringue cakes. Splenda or a combination of Splenda and sugar should work well in most of these recipes.
I like pound cakes because they do not require any type of icing. I have used the reduced-sugar cake mixes from Pillsbury served with Splenda-sweetened whipped cream. Frozen whipped topping would do just as well. You could also make one of the sugar-free frosting recipes on my site. They’re fantastic!