Wedding cake for diabetics / diabetes? Ok – I am having an issue with one and need yahoo help. Thanks?
March 26th, 2010 by renske
Initially, I had wanted to do sugar free cookies (kind of to go along with one of the charities (american diabetes association). But after asking a question on yahoo between the truffles and the cookies, truffles won out. So I planned to make three bags of the cookies – one for my great uncle, one for my grandfather, and one for myself – as we are all diabetics.
And I was fine with that – and never thought of the cake. I shouldn’t eat sugar. But I do. But really shouldn’t. I figured a few bites of wedding cake wouldn’t matter. But now..
I work at a catering hall, but also work at a bridal shop & today met a bride who was getting ready for her own wedding but told me about a friends wedding where that friend was diabetic. What that girl did was have a sheet cake in the back & have on display, for pictures & cutting was a pie crust with a mousse-like filling topped with lots of plain fresh fruit. It wasn’t a big cake but just enough to serve people with sugar issues, everyone else got the plain cake cake in the back. & today’s bride told me that she got to taste her friends cake & it was so good that more people wanted the fruit cake instead!
So now what I am wondering is… what do you – the people on yahoo – feel I should do for my own wedding? Have a bite of sugar loaded cake that I can’t (shouldn’t) eat or have the baker create some ’splenda’ creation for all guests.
What do you think?
PS – I have had type 1 diabetes for nearly 25 years. the donation will be earmaked for research for juvenile diabetes.
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March 29th, 2010 at 4:43 am
Use splenda to bake with, my Grandmother is a diabetic and I am a baker so I researched it and this was the best solution.
Congrats. on the engagement and the wedding
EDIT: Bake a regular cake and use the splenda and taste to see if it is good? You will enjoy it. I like the fresh fruit idea though sound different and yummy!!!
EDIT: Did you know that cinnamon help your absorb your own insulin that your body makes. A diabetic friend told me this!
March 31st, 2010 at 8:11 am
HI MY NAME IS MONICA MY HUSBAND IS DIEBETIC AND THEY TOLD US VANILLA SUGAR FREE CAKE IS JUST FINE.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:02 pm
Congrats on your wedding!
At my own wedding, I just bolused for the extra carbs in both the dinner and the cake. I just didn’t want my diabetes to overshadow my special day.
It seems to me that sugar free cookies, cakes, chocolates and the like still have extra carbs in them. I would have had to allow for those carbs anyway, so I just went ahead and had the cake I wanted. My Gramma is also a type 1 diabetic, and she had cake too. I guess that she also just took some extra insulin to cover it.
For me, my wedding was a celebration of the love that me and my (ex)husband had for one another, and I didn’t want it to be about my stupid diabetes.
April 3rd, 2010 at 7:47 pm
All you have to do is count your carbs and you can eat any food in this universe.
The sugar free cookies may have more carbs than the truffles? Besides, we can eat anything.
Your wedding day will be full of excitement and yes, even some stress.Check your sugars often and if you are running a bit hi- no worries. Just bolus for your special day.
I have a feeling you have never been to an endocrinologist ?
You need one and a class on diabetes since you don’t even seem to have basic knowledge.This happens to people who were dxed at a young age.You were never educated- your parents were. Things have changed a LOT in the past 25 years.
Talk to a dietitian, subscribe to diabetes magazines and keep informed.
Good luck and Congratulations !