wanted: vegan dessert recipes using stevia
Posted by SheriOrloff on Mar 10, 2008 · Member since Mar 2008 · 2 posts
I've been vegan about 1 1/2 years and have just discovered stevia. I'd very much appreciate some dessert recipes that you have tried. My sweet tooth (okay, teeth) thank you in advance!
Look here: http://www.steviainfo.com/?page=recipes
So does anyone else think it tastes sickly sweet? I was actually surprised to meet someone a few years back who thought it tasted good...
I've never tasted it. I happened to see a show on tv today that featured stevia in one of their recipes so I looked up the site given on the show.
So does anyone else think it tastes sickly sweet? I was actually surprised to meet someone a few years back who thought it tasted good...
I love stevia! I use it for almost everything... though I'm still trying to feel out how to use it in baking. It's amazing in oatmeal with cinnamon or with any kind of vanilla/coconut/almond extract. How much did you use? I have a mini scoop that came with my powder and I think it's only 1/16 of a tsp. Maybe you used too much? Check out this conversion chart: http://www.stevia.net/conversion.html
I highly recommend it, but that's just my personal opinion. :)
I tried making a cake with it once, using whatever conversion came with it (long ago, I can't remember, but it wasn't much?) and then I had some tea made with stevia leaves that tasted the same way. Sorry =P
I just found this recipe. I've not tried it.
Power Cookies
4 cups rolled oats
1/2 cup stevia blend
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 (15 ounce) can navy beans, drained and rinsed
3 medium very ripe bananas
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 teaspoons maple flavoring
1 cup dried unsweetened shredded coconut
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup walnuts
1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets.
2. Grind the oats in a blender until resembling coarse flour.
3. In a bowl, combine the ground oats, stevia, baking powder, baking soda and cinnamon. Set aside.
4. In a large bowl, combine whole bananas, drained beans, vanilla and maple flavoring. Beat on high until a smooth paste.
5. Blend the flour mixture into the bean mixture. Stir in the coconut, raisins and walnuts.
6. Drop dough by heaping spoonfuls onto the prepared cookie sheet. The cookies will not flatted out during baking. If desired, slightly press with the bottom of a glass.
7. Bake for 10 to 15 minutes in the preheated oven, until slightly golden.
8. Remove to wire racks and cool completely.
Isabella,
Thanks for the link! I like the taste of stevia probably because I like licorice. My first attempt at baking with stevia was a recipe for brownies. It was a complete disaster but I ate some anyway. Everything takes practice.
Does anyone have a Stevia recipe for baked goods they've tried and love?
Someone gave me a box of Stevia packets and I'd like to bake with them, preferably a cookie, brownie, bread or muffin recipe that tastes really good and doesn't leave a weird aftertaste.
Does anyone have a Stevia recipe for baked goods they've tried and love?
I've been looking for the same thing for a while, without much success. :(
I was excited to see these: http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/2009/08/sugar-free-or-not-peach-and-vanilla.html but followed her link and noticed the Stevia baking "blend" it calls for contains a bunch of stuff and I haven't seen anything like that around here.
Ricki from http://www.dietdessertndogs.com/ is on the anti-candida diet and posts a lot of recipes using stevia, some of which are excellent (the lemony almond pancakes are a miracle of science), but she's off grains too, so you won't find any muffins or anything there.
If you discover any good recipes for Stevia baked goods, please let me know!
i love stevia too :) i am not naturally a fan of sweet foods period - but I prefer using stevia than sugar. though i do get a nasty hit when i open the bottle a little too rough and stevia cloud races into my face and i am coughing all over the place and can taste such incredible sweetness at the back of my throat :P
the other night my bf came across a website which gave conversions for how much stevia is equivalent in cups / teaspoons / tablespoons of sugar :) http://www.cookingwithstevia.com/stevia_conversion_chart.html
i hope this page helps!
This thread stayed in my brain last night, and this morning I experimented with a stevia-sweetened muffin. I adapted mine from this recipe: http://community.livejournal.com/vegancooking/1877235.html
Here's what I used:
Wet:
5 small (like 5 inches) bananas, mashed with about 10 drops dark chocolate Stevia liquid (that's the only kind of Stevia I had on hand), 1/2 tsp vanilla, 1 TBS almond butter, 2 TBS unsweetened applesauce
Dry:
1 cup white spelt flour, 1/2 tsp baking soda, 1 tsp baking powder, 1/4 tsp salt
Combine and stir as little as possible until just mixed.
Spoon into muffin tins (I used silicon, ungreased) and fill a little more than 3/4 full (I got 9 total out of this - fill fuller if you want a muffin top and fewer muffins).
Bake 20 minutes at 350 degrees.
These turned out excellent! Not too sweet but not "unsweetened"-tasting, moist enough but not falling apart, and they didn't stick to my silicon pans although I didn't use any oil. I would definitely tout these more as a "breakfast" muffin than a dessert muffin, though.
Since I used a weird kind of Stevia... here's a conversion table to switch between packets, powder, and liquid: http://www.stevia.com/stevia-sugarEquivalencies.asp
Next I'm trying this recipe: http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/2006/04/sugar-free-coconut-chai-breakfast-cake.html
This thread stayed in my brain last night, and this morning I experimented with a stevia-sweetened muffin. I adapted mine from this recipe: http://community.livejournal.com/vegancooking/1877235.html
Here's what I used:
Wet:
5 small (like 5 inches) bananas, mashed with about 10 drops dark chocolate Stevia liquid (that's the only kind of Stevia I had on hand), 1/2 tsp vanilla, 1 TBS almond butter, 2 TBS unsweetened applesauce
Dry:
1 cup white spelt flour, 1/2 tsp baking soda, 1 tsp baking powder, 1/4 tsp salt
Combine and stir as little as possible until just mixed.
Spoon into muffin tins (I used silicon, ungreased) and fill a little more than 3/4 full (I got 9 total out of this - fill fuller if you want a muffin top and fewer muffins).
Bake 20 minutes at 350 degrees.
These turned out excellent! Not too sweet but not "unsweetened"-tasting, moist enough but not falling apart, and they didn't stick to my silicon pans although I didn't use any oil. I would definitely tout these more as a "breakfast" muffin than a dessert muffin, though.
Since I used a weird kind of Stevia... here's a conversion table to switch between packets, powder, and liquid: http://www.stevia.com/stevia-sugarEquivalencies.asp
Next I'm trying this recipe: http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/2006/04/sugar-free-coconut-chai-breakfast-cake.html
Thanks for the Stevia muffin recipe, Lauuren. I love baking with spelt flour too so that recipe is especially appreciated.
I don't have liquid chocolate Stevia. Just those Stevia sugar packets. Do you think that would work too?
That Sugar-Free Coconut Chai Breakfast cake link you sent looks delicious. Let us know how that goes when you bake it.
This thread stayed in my brain last night, and this morning I experimented with a stevia-sweetened muffin. I adapted mine from this recipe: http://community.livejournal.com/vegancooking/1877235.html
Here's what I used:
Wet:
5 small (like 5 inches) bananas, mashed with about 10 drops dark chocolate Stevia liquid (that's the only kind of Stevia I had on hand), 1/2 tsp vanilla, 1 TBS almond butter, 2 TBS unsweetened applesauce
Dry:
1 cup white spelt flour, 1/2 tsp baking soda, 1 tsp baking powder, 1/4 tsp salt
Combine and stir as little as possible until just mixed.
Spoon into muffin tins (I used silicon, ungreased) and fill a little more than 3/4 full (I got 9 total out of this - fill fuller if you want a muffin top and fewer muffins).
Bake 20 minutes at 350 degrees.
These turned out excellent! Not too sweet but not "unsweetened"-tasting, moist enough but not falling apart, and they didn't stick to my silicon pans although I didn't use any oil. I would definitely tout these more as a "breakfast" muffin than a dessert muffin, though.
Since I used a weird kind of Stevia... here's a conversion table to switch between packets, powder, and liquid: http://www.stevia.com/stevia-sugarEquivalencies.asp
Next I'm trying this recipe: http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/2006/04/sugar-free-coconut-chai-breakfast-cake.html
Thank you for your recipe. I tried it and it tasted really good but the batter was still a little too wet. I really like the spelt/banana/peanut butter combination and also folded in mini carob chips. So I think I might try and work with this again.