HELP! Making cake for a diabetic friend - how much sweetner should I use instead of sugar?

[becklespookle]

Usually I weigh the eggs in their shells and use the same weight of flour, sugar and butter but artificial sweetners are much lighter than sugar!

Don't want it to be too sweet if I put too much in, didn't know whether to chicken out and just bake an ordinary cake instead...

Don't know but a lot of sweetners go savoury when cooked!

Weigh out the usual amount of sugar and out it in a measuring jug. Then use the same volume of sweetener.

Thanks shrooms! Is one kind of sweetner any better for cakes than another?

Could you not just use ordinary sugar? I have a friend whose DD has diabetes. She can eat anything really as long as she counts the carbs and alters her insulin accordingly.

You need a heat-stable sweetener. Splenda is one. Or something called sionin which is only avaiable online I beleive. Hermesetas gold as well I think but you need to check the packaging. It is possible to use sweetener tablets - 1 tablet is the same as one teaspoon, 3 tsp are 1 tblspn which I think is equivalent to 1 oz.