Thread: Baking & Stevia
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Default Baking & Stevia

chembake wrote:
>>Has anyone tried Stevia in baking? Does it lack that caramelized flavor
>>of sugar? I see recipes online, but does anyone has muffin, cake, or
>>cookie recipes that have been tried and work well with Stevia

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> It may not be different if compared to sucralose..and
> you need a bulking agent to be used with it....to simulate one of the
> functional effect of sugar that is also absent in intense non caloric
> sweeteners .


What types of builking agents are available? What are the tradeoffs?
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>>.Does it lack that caramelized flavor
>>of sugar?

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> Yes,,,,,
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Is there anyway to compensate for this? Like some molasses or caramel
flavoring?