Terry P.
on 7/27/09 10:05 am - Wappingers Falls, NY

Sugar Free Chocolate Pecan Torte

Ingredients:

2 cups pecans or almond meal

1/3 cup cocoa

1 tsp baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

4 or 5 eggs, depending on size

1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, melted

1 tsp vanilla and ½ tsp almond extract

1/4 cup erythritol

Artificial sweetener equivalent to 1 cup sugar

1/2 cup water or coffee

Preparation:

Heat oven to 350 F. Grease a 8 or 9" round pan or springform pan.

1) Process pecans in food processor - pulse until they are meal - but they won't get quite as small as corn meal.

2) Add the rest of the dry ingredients and pulse again.

3) Add the wet ingredients and process until well-blended.

4) Pour into pan and bake. The exact time will vary with the pan. Start checking at about 20 minutes until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

5) Cut when cool. Serve with whipped cream.

LAP RNY 06/05/08
Day of surgery 197
Lowest weight 127
Current weight 165
Goal 135

oh2bthinagain
on 7/27/09 12:09 pm - Canada

VSG on 06/05/09

This sounds great but...... what is erythritol?

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Terry P.
on 7/27/09 8:35 pm - Wappingers Falls, NY

Erythritol is a sugar substitute you can get from Netrition.Com. I would imagine you can use Splenda for all of the sugar. I see in lots of recipes that they think using two different types of sugar substitute tastes better than all of one kind. In this recipe, I used Erythritol and also liquid Splenda. Use whatever you are comfortable with. Terry

LAP RNY 06/05/08
Day of surgery 197
Lowest weight 127
Current weight 165
Goal 135

Misty Gilbert
on 7/29/09 4:44 am - Marshall, IL

RNY on 07/21/09

Sounds yummy! I think I just found my Thanksgiving treat this year -- of course I'll have to bake it once before hand and try it out (evil grin)...

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ARMelanie
on 8/2/09 4:07 pm - AR

RNY on 03/03/09

yum! thanks for sharing

Heather Hunnie
on 8/12/09 12:21 am - Sayville, NY

RNY on 12/01/08

Do you have the stats for this recipe?

So, if you don't use the erythritol, how much splenda do you use? I cup?

Thanks!

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Terry P.
on 8/12/09 5:58 am - Wappingers Falls, NY

I would probably go with 1 1/4 cup of Splenda if you are only using the one sugar. Tastes vary though. I also tried seperating the eggs (beating the whites till almost stiff with the sugar and folding in at the end). This seemed to produce a nicer end product. You don't need to though.

LAP RNY 06/05/08
Day of surgery 197
Lowest weight 127
Current weight 165
Goal 135

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