Can you make Nilla Banana Pudding w/Splenda?

Question

If you substitute sugar with splenda when you make the filling for banana pudding with Nilla wafers, does it taste any different then using sugar?

Answer 1

Splenda is a great sugar substitute. When cooking, the only time you need to worry about using real sugar is when the sugar actually gives structure to the stuff you are making... For instance syrups which can be think. Splenda in a solution with water will just be an insanly sweet mixture with the consistency of water. The equivalent amount of sugar in water would be thickened due to the way sugar molecules interact with the water molecules. Cookies are also a good example. Many cookies will fall apart without sugar as a binder. Sugar tends to stick to itself where Splenda will not. In the cases where sugar is needed but lower calories are desired, Splenda makes a sugar/Splenda blend of 1/2 sugar, 1/2 Splanda. This gives the food enough structure to have the texture and qualities it should while making it a bit healthier. The taste is very close to that of sugar but many people will not realize there is a substitute in a food dish. Drinks are much easier to tell since splenda doesn't give that syrupy characteristic. And the Splenda blend should be nearly indistinguishable from a pure sugar recipe. :)

Answer 2

Yes you can use Splenda instead of sugar in all most any recipes. There isn't much of a taste change if any. Also splenda measures spoon for spoon just the way you would measure sugar

Answer 3

we use slenda for all cooking now i have not used sugar in three months

Answer 4

yeah you can.