A Basic and Easy Sugar Free Yellow Cake Recipe (2024)

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A basic yellow cake recipe without sugar added to it.

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A Sugar Free Yellow Cake is a pretty basic cake.
It is also a kind of cake that can please a lot of people.

Sugar Free Yellow Cake

I originally posted this recipe a while back.

However, I decided to revisit this recipe with an update.

A yellow cake is a pretty basic cake to make.
While everyone can agree on a basic cake like this one, we still have room to personalize it. We can personalize the cake with frosting or how we present it.

What makes this cake so special is that we are altering the recipe to make it without adding sugar to it.

It is not a hard thing to bake a cake without adding sugar to it. We just need to make a few adjustments to make it taste similar to it's sugared counterpart.

By the way, you can personalize this cake with one of these recipes.

  • Sugar Free Cocoa Buttercream Frosting Recipe.
  • Sugar Free Pudding and Cream Cheese Frosting recipe.
  • Sugar Free Creme Filling.

Also, you can easily find some sugar free frosting online to try out.

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The recipe for Sugar Free Yellow Cake

Yellow cakes are famous for their color.
This color comes from the addition of eggs- more than the usual cake contains.

  • Cake Flour- 2 cups. Make sure that your cake flour has no added sugar in it. You can optionally use 1 ¾ cup of All Purpose flour sifted together with ¼ cup of cornstarch.
  • Baking Powder- 2 teaspoons.
  • Salt- ½ teaspoon.
  • Butter- ½ cup + 1 tablespoon softened.
  • Sugar Alternative- equivalent to 1 cup of sugar. For best results, please use a granular product that is 1:1 with sugar in volume.
  • Eggs- 3.
  • Vanilla Extract- 2 teaspoons.
  • Milk or creme- ¾ cup + 1 tablespoon. We will add this divided.

How to make a Sugar Free Yellow Cake

This recipe should be good for 2 8-9" cake pans.

  • Prep your cake pans for nonstick by both greasing and dusting them with flour. Preheat your oven to 325.
  • Sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Set this aside as we will be adding this to the mixing bowl later on and divided.
  • In a mixing bowl and mixer set to medium speed, beat together your sugar alternative and butter until smooth.. This should take about 4-5 minutes to achieve.
  • Next, add your eggs one at a time, beating between additions. Then mix in the vanilla extract.
  • Slow down the mixer to a slow speed so that you can alternate adding the dry and wet ingredients to the mixing bowl. Start by adding ⅓rd of the dry ingredients from the bowl that you had set aside earlier and then ⅓rd of the milk. For example, add one third of the dry,stir, and then ⅓ of the wet and repeat until all ingredients have been added.
  • Bake for 25-28 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. This cake will not necessarily brown however.
  • Allow the cake to cool for about 10 minutes after you take it out of the oven an before you remove it from the pans.

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Sugar Free Yellow Cake

A basic yellow cake recipe without sugar added to it.

Prep Time15 minutes mins

Cook Time30 minutes mins

Total Time45 minutes mins

Servings: 2 round cake pans or equivalent.

Ingredients

  • Cake Flour- 2 cups. Make sure that your cake flour has no added sugar in it. You can optionally use 1 ¾ cup of All Purpose flour sifted together with ¼ cup of cornstarch.
  • Baking Powder- 2 teaspoons.
  • Salt- ½ teaspoon.
  • Butter- ½ cup + 1 tablespoon softened.
  • Sugar Alternative- equivalent to 1 cup of sugar. For best results please use a granular product that is 1:1 with sugar in volume.
  • Eggs- 3.
  • Vanilla Extract- 2 teaspoons.
  • Milk or creme- ¾ cup + 1 tablespoon. We will add this divided.

Instructions

  • This recipe should be good for 2 8-9" cake pans.

  • Prep your cake pans for nonstick by both greasing and dusting them with flour. Preheat your oven to 325.

  • Sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Set this aside as we will be adding this to the mixing bowl later on and divided.

  • In a mixing bowl and mixer set to medium speed, beat together your sugar alternative and butter until smooth.. This should take about 4-5 minutes to achieve.

  • Next, add your eggs one at a time, beating between additions. Then mix in the vanilla extract.

  • Slow down the mixer to a slow speed so that you can alternate adding the dry and wet ingredients to the mixing bowl. Start by adding ⅓rd of the dry ingredients from the bowl that you had set aside earlier and then ⅓rd of the milk. For example, add one third of the dry,stir, and then ⅓ of the wet and repeat until all ingredients have been added.

  • Bake for 25-28 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. This cake will not necessarily brown however.

  • Allow the cake to cool for about 10 minutes after you take it out of the oven an before you remove it from the pans.

Recipe Notes

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most recently updated:

June 6, 2018

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A Basic and Easy Sugar Free Yellow Cake Recipe (2024)

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What is a yellow cake mix with no sugar? ›

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What happens when you bake a cake without sugar? ›

Sugar helps cakes stay moist after baking. A completely sugar-free cake will dry out quickly, so wrap cooled cakes in cling film to prevent moisture loss.

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Sugar-free cakes are a great alternative for people with diabetes because they contain little to no added sugars, which can cause blood sugar levels to spike and lead to complications for those with diabetes.

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-- idea to experiment with various sugar substitutes for more natural and healthful alternatives.
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Can you use Splenda instead of sugar in a cake? ›

When using Splenda in baking, you should be able to use it “cup for cup”, meaning if the recipe calls for 1 cup of regular sugar, then you substitute with 1 cup of Splenda. Some have noticed that items may have a shortened cooking time when using sucralose, so keep a close eye.

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A guide to 5 popular sugar substitutes
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You can bake cakes that are significantly less sweet, but the only way to cut sugar completely is to use artificial sweeteners. Sugar adds more to cakes than a sweet taste. Beets, carrots and fruit all make excellent natural sweeteners.

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Sugar substitutes don't affect your blood sugar level. In fact, most artificial sweeteners are considered "free foods." Free foods contain less than 20 calories and 5 grams or less of carbohydrates, and they don't count as calories or carbohydrates on a diabetes exchange.

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